Between barbecues and solemn remembrance on this four-day weekend, the following movies were most patronized:
1. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian - $70 million, showing a massive outpouring of support for this finale to the Indian in the Cupboard trilogy.
2. Terminator Salvation - $53.8 million. You'd think a powerful partnership with Pizza Hut would have been enough to push the film into first place. It worked so well for reading.
3. Star Trek - $29.4 million, bringing it well within reach of becoming the summer's first $200 million blockbuster. Unless, as I'm predicting, The Soloist really picks up this week.
4. Angels & Demons - $27.7 million, dropping from first to fourth. What a slap in the Hanks.
5. Dance Flick - $13.1 million. There was a time when a horrible, Wayans Brothers-written comedy could have a summer opening at #2. How times have changed since Little Man.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
These films were considered the "top" movies of the weekend:
1. Angels & Demons - The only major new release this weekend took in $48 million, barely besting Star Trek and making far less than The Da Vinci Code's $77 million opening. Ron Howard really should have caved to studio pressure to add more albinos. Unless there were more albinos in this but they just weren't in the trailer, in which case they really should have sold us on those albinos.
2. Star Trek - $43 million, bringing it within $4 million of Wolverine's total gross, but still no closer to my mom not calling it Star Track.
3. X-Men Origins: Wolverine - $14.8 million, a drop of another 44%, but a fall that is reportedly still not affecting sales of Wolverine X-Treme Capuccinos.
4. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past - $6.9 million. Remember when Matthew McConaughey was in Amistad?
5. Obsessed - $4.5 million, putting the sleeper hit over $40 million above its $20 million budget, not to mention how much it's made in Beyonce action figure sales.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
I like it whenever a poster gives me the sense that I've been incessantly shouting at someone in a loud, crowded area until they finally turn around--then I snap that picture. Haven't had that glorious feeling since I caught Cyclops at the New York Comic Con.
And here's one more Angels & Demons poster, in which Hanks is doing that classic movie shtick where you pretend you're a statue/mannequin when the bad guys are looking:
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If you made it to the end of the Oscars--or more likely, if you dozed off and were awakened by the credit sequence's jamming guitar--the night's reward was a three-minute movie preview sequence. For some of the films (Public Enemies, Whatever Works), it was a first look at scenes from highly-anticipated projects. For others (Old Dogs!), it was the warning: oh god, Robin Williams and John Travolta made some kind of boot camp comedy, and it's called Old Dogs. Here it is:
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The Illuminati are out for revenge against the Catholic church, and there's only one man who can stop them: whoever the Tom Hanks character is! In Angels & Demons, Hanks uses the same skill set he used to decipher the Da Vinci Code (thought, sometimes running) to foil the enemies and learn something about Christian lore that your mom will mistake as fact.
From the looks of the trailer, they've added some underwater parts to make the video game better:
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So, I didn't get to all the Super Bowl ads yesterday. Sorry. But in the spirit of never fully betraying you, here are the rest of them, including spots for Year One, Up, Angels & Demons, Fast & Furious, and Duplicity. I suggest only watching the clips for Year One, which has some promise. Unless you're my dad--then clear off the edge of your seat and watch Angels & Demons. This promises to be as taut a thriller as "The Code"! Or if you're a car, watch Fast & Furious.
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Tom Hanks has a dapper new haircut and he's ready to fight the Illuminati in this new teaser trailer for Angels & Demons, the sequel to a movie with the same protagonist as The Da Vinci Code. Kyle, who pointed out the trailer, says it's like watching "a $100 million travelogue without the Hanks good hair." He's mostly right, but I feel I should also mention all the hot iron-branding that appears to take place. If only more expensive travelogues involved branding, that Mario Batali/Gwyneth Paltrow go to Spain show would be so much more watchable.
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USA Today has posted four new shots from Angels & Demons, the sequel to The Da Vinci Code. I am, of course, disappointed to see that Tom Hanks's hair looks so much less Nic Cage-ian, but at least with the shots of Ewan McGregor in a robe you can pretend he's a jedi again:
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Angels & Demons? More like Angels and Dozin'! Because it will be boring!
Like the movie will literally put me to sleep. This snoozing angel statue is a more accurate representation, of how I'll sleep through it. You know what I'm saying?
Angels & Demons Poster [IMPA]
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