Sunday, August 23, 2009

Box Office numbers are in... Who's on Top?

Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino's own personal World War II starring Pitt , routed the weekend competition with an estimated $37.6 million gross. This would be the largest opener for Tarantino's carrer and one of the biggest for Brad Pitt.

District 9 grossed $18.9 million, and pushed its domestic bank account total to $73.5 million, well more than double its production budget.
• Welcome to the real, cruel world, Post Grad. The Alexis Bledel comedy followed in the footsteps of I Love You, Beth Cooper and Bandslam, and fell right into a hole: $2.8 million, 10th place debut.
(500) Days of Summer ($2.4 million), about the only teen/twentysomething comedy to make a mark this summer, exited the Top 10 after a $22.2 million run that made very good on its reported $7.5 million budget.
• Via Twitter, Jeremy Piven wants to hear why you haven't seen The Goods ($2.7 million), out of the Top 10 after just one not-so good weekend.
• All RenĂ©e Zellweger needed to change her box-office luck was a little George Hamilton. The Zellweger-led, Hamilton-inspired road-trip movie, My One and Only, looked big in limited release, grossing $60,708 off only four screens.
• Guess the X-Games has to be seen in person to be believed. X-Games 3D: The Movie bombed, averaging only $572 at each of its nearly 1,400 theaters.
• Did you know Ashton Kutcher was in a new movie this summer? Of course not. The gigolo-celebrating Spread made only $122,948 at 103 theaters last weekend. Grosses weren't known yet for this weekend.

Here's a complete look at the weekend's top-grossing films based on Friday-Sunday estimates as compiled by Exhibitor Relations:

  1. Inglourious Basterds, $37.6 million
  2. District 9, $18.9 million
  3. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, $12.5 million
  4. The Time Traveler's Wife, $10 million
  5. Julie & Julia, $9 million
  6. Shorts, $6.6 million
  7. G-Force, $4.2 million
  8. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, $3.5 million
  9. The Ugly Truth, $2.9 million
  10. Post Grad, $2.8 million

 

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