Weekend Wrap-Up
Sandler Strong, Cruise Not Against Toy Story 3
By John Hamann
June 27, 2010
Seventh goes to Shrek Forever After, the leggier than expected $165 million effort from Paramount and DreamWorks. Now in its sixth weekend, Shrek 4 was trying to recover from a 65% plunge last weekend, and comes away with a gross of $2.9 million and a drop of 49%. It was no secret that Forever After was going to die following the debut of Toy Story 3. It now finds itself with a domestic gross of $229.3 million, and an overseas take that is approaching $100 million, but really is just getting started.
Prince of Persia finishes eighth, and doesn't have as good of a weekend as it had in the previous frame when it fell only 14%. This weekend, the Jake Gyllenhaal action flick earned $2.8 million and fell 50%. The domestic total for this one has reached $86.2 million, but it's the foreign gross that's bailing this $200 million picture out. Prince of Persia has already taken in over $210 million overseas.
The Lionsgate release Killers is ninth, as it must have sold tickets to the blind and deaf club. Killers earned another $2 million in its fourth weekend, and should be celebrated for staying in the top ten for 24 days. The Ashton Kutcher flick fell 60% and now has a running total of $44 million.
Jonah Hex is the dummy in the top ten, as the $50 million Warner Bros. flick does a MacGruber. After its slick $5 million opening last weekend, Hex falls 70% this weekend, earning $1.6 million. Unfortunately, Hex will outgross MacGruber, as that one earned $8 million total, Jonah Hex may earn $12 million. Give it $9.1 million so far.
Overall, the 2010 side of the box office formula had little chance of keeping up with last year. One year ago, Michael Bay (sounds a lot like MacGruber) unleashed Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen on the unaware, and it somehow managed to open to $109 million (try not to relive it). That took the top 12 films to about $193 million, a number that becomes pretty tough to reach when dealing with a Sandler movie and a Tom Cruise flop. Thanks to Toy Story 3, the top 12 still did okay, taking in $159.7 million, but it was well off of last year. Next weekend brings Twilight back to movie theatres, so I suggest you go camping, watch the World Cup or try curling, unless you really like throngs of teenagers who are not nearly as polite as the Harry Potter crowd.
| 1 |
Toy Story 3 |
Walt Disney Pictures |
$59,000,000 |
$59,337,669 |
- 46.2% |
$226,889,351 |
| 2 |
Grown Ups |
Columbia Pictures (Sony) |
$41,000,000 |
$40,506,562 |
New |
$40,506,562 |
| 3 |
Knight and Day |
20th Century Fox |
$20,500,000 |
$20,139,985 |
New |
$27,428,513 |
| 4 |
The Karate Kid |
Columbia Pictures (Sony) |
$15,400,000 |
$15,547,421 |
- 48.0% |
$135,788,721 |
| 5 |
The A-Team |
20th Century Fox |
$6,000,000 |
$6,204,454 |
- 56.9% |
$63,047,432 |
| 6 |
Get Him to The Greek |
Universal |
$3,009,875 |
$3,140,780 |
- 48.6% |
$54,616,495 |
| 7 |
Shrek Forever After |
DreamWorks |
$2,875,000 |
$3,101,365 |
- 44.8% |
$229,539,089 |
| 8 |
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time |
Walt Disney Pictures |
$2,801,000 |
$2,845,684 |
- 48.9% |
$86,221,879 |
| 9 |
Killers |
Lionsgate |
$2,000,000 |
$1,938,681 |
- 61.5% |
$43,938,754 |
| 10 |
Jonah Hex |
Warner Bros. |
$1,600,000 |
$1,627,442 |
- 69.7% |
$9,171,083 |
| 11 |
Iron Man 2 |
Paramount Pictures, Marvel Studios |
$1,375,000 |
$1,436,378 |
- 50.0% |
$306,943,647 |
| 12 |
Sex and the City 2 |
New Line Cinema |
$1,275,000 |
$1,219,345 |
- 49.4% |
$93,072,615 |
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| |
Restrepo |
Nat'l Geographic |
$30,453 |
$35,581 |
New |
$35,581 |
| |
South of the Border |
Cinema Libre |
N/A |
$21,545 |
New |
$21,545 |
| |
Cyrus |
Fox Searchlight Pictures |
$300,000 |
$301,227 |
+ 65.8% |
$566,259 |
| |
Winter's Bone |
Roadside Attractions |
$425,000 |
$437,355 |
+24% |
$1,064,308 |
| |
Marmaduke |
20th Century Fox |
$970,000 |
$977,386 |
- 60.5% |
$30,008,941 |
| |
Solitary Man |
Anchor Bay |
$478,000 |
$476,431 |
+12% |
$2,070,915 |
| |
Robin Hood |
Universal Pictures |
$632,205 |
$648,925 |
- 54.4% |
$103,301,770 |
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Box office data supplied by Exhibitor Relations
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