Weekend Box Office:
1)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince $79.4 million
2)
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs $17.7 million
3)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen $13.7 million
4)
Bruno $8.3 million
5)
The Hangover $8.3 million
6)
The Proposal $8.2 million
7)
Public Enemies $7.5 million
8)
Up $3.1 million
9)
My Sister's Keeper $2.8 million
10)
I Love You, Beth Cooper $2.6 million
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince dominated the mid-July box office, bringing in an estimated $159.6 million since opening on Wednesday. Over the course of the weekend, the film brought in $79.4 million, but failed to break any single record, most of which are now owned by that giant robot film
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. J.K. Rowling's sixth book still proved to be quite popular on the big screen, as fans secured its place as the 2nd biggest five-day opening for a movie that debuted on a Wednesday. Strong word of mouth will more than likely keep this highly praised sequel afloat through most of August.
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs stayed in second place this weekend, bringing in another $17.1 million. That brings its cumulative grosses up to $152 million. Pretty hefty, though still not enough to beat its previous two entries in overall earnings.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is still going strong in its fourth week of release. Earning $13.7 million for third place, the film has now earned $363 million domestically, and $746.9 million worldwide. That still only makes it the 13th highest grossing film of all-time, so it has some distance to go before it's at the top of the cinematic dog pile.
(500) Days of Summer opened on the arthouse scene to the tune of $838,000, placing it at number twelve on the charts while giving it the highest per screen average of the weekend. Playing on 27 screens, this romantic comedy starring Joseph Gordon Levitt and Zooey Deschanel took in $31,037 at each of its locations.
Next weekend is a mixed bag of genre films as Disney's kiddy flick
G-Force opens against the R rated comedy
The Ugly Truth and the horrific thriller
Orphan. Its tough to say who'll come out on top, as all of these new releases have to contend with Comic-Con 2009.
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Prediction: Transformers 2 ($418 million)... HP6 ($350 million)
I still think it will be the 2009 Movie of the Year.
If HP6 flails after the first week, I won't be surprised, and am actually hoping it will fail fiscally so David Yates could get motivated to include all the deleted scenes in the movie version on dvd, like a director's cut or what have you, assuming of course that data actually pertaining to the book's point & plot is among them.
everyone!!!!
go c it again!!!!!
no movie thats scheduled for release will hit $200 million, 2012 wont do it, GI Joe might, just might scratch at the door, Christmas carol will not....Avatar needs to do advertising as soon as possible, a small lil teaser perhaps, with a background visual and the name lol the look of the landscape will have ppl sayin wow
WOW. Harry Potter may be Movie of the Year. How did that happen? It is a good movie. But I figured either Star Trek or Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen would have filled that spot, but HP6 is giving those films a run for their money...literally. Again: WOW.
As the rest of the month is really week, especial next week, I'll probably see it again.
glad it did
My Rating: A+