Your weekend box office:
1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 - $125 million, setting a new opening record for the franchise and justifying the wearing of wizard costumes to a lot of weirdos.
2. Megamind - $16.2 million. I didn't see Megamind this weekend, but I did catch a commercial in which Megamind attempts to procure a McDonald's Happy Meal, and it was really annoying.
3. Unstoppable - $13.1 million, bringing its box office total to over $40 million, which sounds okay until you realize this film was somehow given a $100 million budget. Seriously, a hundred million dollars to make a movie about an out-of-control train. Who gave that the go-ahead?
4. Due Date - $9.2 million, continuing to be the most "yeah, if we're seeing something, I guess I'd see that" film of the year.
5. The Next Three Days - $6.8 million. If you haven't already, you will have forgotten this movie exists by next week.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Your weekend box office results:
1. Megamind - $30.1 million, though it isn't doing as well in Japan, where it's called The S&M Blue Man Group Super Power Brad Pitt Show.
2. Unstoppable - $23.5 million, a nearly identical opening to last time director Tony Scott had Denzel Washington stop a train.
3. Due Date - $15.5 million. If this keeps making money, Todd Phillips is going to have to come up yet another slight variation on Zach Galifianakis acting dumb.
4. Skyline - $11.7 million--already more than the film's $10 million budget, so someone better start typing up a script for Skyline 2: Horizons.
5. Morning Glory - $9.6 million. Perhaps marketing it as something my mom would eventually rent wasn't the best way to sell this thing.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Your weekend box office numbers:
1. Megamind - $47.7 million--almost ten million less than Despicable Me's opening, and less than half of what The Incredibles made the same weekend in 2004. But Megamind can probably catch up to those numbers after a few unwarranted sequels and a straight-to-video release based around a supporting character.
2. Due Date - $33.5 million. Expect to see a jump in teen pregnancy as high schoolers attempt to emulate getting a girl pregnant and having a madcap adventure to get home in time for the child's birth.
3. For Colored Girls - $20.1 million (i.e., needed more Madea).
4. Red - $8.9 million (i.e., also needed some Madea).
5. Saw 3-D - $8.2 million. (i.e., needed the most Madea).
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Some new posters for Due Date have arrived, delivering another dead dad joke and at least two ways in which RDJ will have his face smushed into Zach Galifianakis, because that's exactly what discerning modern audiences demand. Four more, here:
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If the combination of Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis alone wasn't enough to convince you of Due Date's relative worth, here's a new trailer with another promise: the drinking of corpse-coffee, as in hot water percolated through father ashes. That's something.
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Basically the same as the first trailer, but with a new intro--now with even more close parallels to Planes, Trains & Automobiles! That's something.
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From Yahoo, here's Due Date's poster, showing that once again Todd Phillips has gone with the combination of aviator sunglasses, unexplained injury, and Zach Galifiankis carrying something small and cute to grab our interest. Plan your obvious Halloween costume accordingly.
For my money, Todd Phillips films have never really been able to live up to the illusion of mania and outlandishness they present that basically only stems from the leads' established personas. The Hangover, though a career high for him and a pretty entertaining film, really isn't the classic its box office numbers, Golden Globe, and Facebook quote generators would imply--even though the cast and trailers really made it seem like it could be. For all that promise he could still only come home with a low B on the exam? Come on. Let's give him one more try with Due Date, a non-Road Trip Todd Phillips road trip movie that puts Zach Galifanakis in a car with Robert Downey Jr., leading to all sorts of RDJ calm rage. And also Jamie Foxx is there, because society demands The Soloist 2, whatever form it may take.
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