May 18 2009 Weekend Box Office: Tom Hanks Narrowly Beats Out Kirk
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]
May 11 2009 'Star Trek' Entertains Another... GENERATION
Your weekend box office results:
1. Star Trek - $72.5 million, proving this new Star Trek film is not just for nerds. Luckily, all the old ones still are though, so everyone still has something to talk about at the conventions.
2. X-Men Origins: Wolverine - Still keeping its claws in the top two with a $27 million weekend. Note that I used the word "claws" to describe the film's ability to maintain a relatively high gross in its second week. That didn't happen by accident.
3. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past - $10.5 million. I hear they're already at work on a sequel in which we'll see the nefarious means Matthew McConaughey used to murder so many girlfriends.
4. Obsessed - $6.6 million. In the end, Beyonce kills Obsessed. Now stop seeing this awful movie.
5. 17 Again - Another $4.4 million--a testament to the eternal popularity of black arts-based comedies.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
May 4 2009 'Wolverine' Made So Much Money
Movie audiences this weekend, as expected, heavily favored movies about guys with claws:
1. X-Men Origins: Wolverine - Neither an early internet leak nor hundreds of awful reviews could stop Hugh Jackman-cuts-through-things from grossing $87 million.
2. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past - $15.3 million. It's like no one even cares about Matthew McConaughey learning valuable lessons by magically revisiting his sexual past.
3. Obsessed - $12.2 million. With so many losing their jobs, Americans needed to be reminded how great it was before the economic crash, when everyone had a great career, a hot temp at work obsessed with them, and Beyonce as a wife.
4. 17 Again - $6.4 million. Ah, to be 17 again. I would waste so much time playing StarCraft, again.
5. Monsters vs. Aliens - $5.8 million. Still?
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
Feb 13 2009 Matthew McConaughey Even Smugger With Scarf On
My issue with this movie isn't so much with it's Christmas Carol-with-girlfriends concept as much as that they stopped there. Yes, Matthew McConaughey should be haunted by his ex-girlfriends, but he should also be haunted by everything else: Fool's Gold, How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days, all the other Matthew McCaughmedies, his hair highlights, that fucking scarf, the bongos resting discreetly at his feet, the ghost of shirtlessness past. It's not fair the rest of the world feels those terrible presences while he stands around grinning.
