Jun 15, 2008 by B. Alan Orange

Box Office Beat Down: Hulk Smash with $54 Million!

Weekend Box Office


1) The Incredible Hulk $54.5 million

2) Kung Fu Panda $34.3 million

3) The Happening $30.5 million

4) You Don't Mess with the Zohan $16.4 million

5) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull $13.5 million

6) Sex and the City: The Movie $10.1 million

7) Iron Man $5.1 million

8) The Strangers $4 million

9) The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian $3 million

10) What Happens in Vegas $1.7 million

At first tracking low, the hype surrounding the second coming of The Incredible Hulk built itself into such a fervor that the film managed to walk away with the number one spot on this weekend's box office chart. Everyone involved made sure that we all knew this wasn't a sequel to Ang Lee's 2004 Hulk, but a wholly new try at rebuilding a franchise. And that premise worked. Louis Leterrier's film earned an impressive $54.5 million. If it keeps going strong on word of mouth, we just may be witnessing the resurrection of a once thought dead property.

M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening didn't fare quite as well in this, it's debut weekend. The film came in third with $30.5 million. That simply wasn't enough to beat back Jack Black's Kung Fu Panda, which walked away with the number two spot after earning another $34.3 million in its second week of release. The DreamWorks animated film has nabbed a total of $117.9 million total, shaking it into blockbuster status.

Very few limited release films saw the light of day this weekend. Werner Herzog's latest documentary Encounters at the End of the World stumbled into $17,500 playing on just one screen. This put its per screen average in second place just behind the two week old Mongol, which earned another $107,000 playing on five screens. It's per screen average it at $21,400, putting its cumulative grosses at $307,000. The comedy horror show Baghead only managed to pull in $8,900 on two screens.

Next week, The Incredible Hulk and the Kung Fu Panda will be going up against Maxwell Smart and the Get Smart crew, as well as The Love Guru and Kit Kittredge: An American Girl.

The Incredible Hulk was released June 13th, 2008 and stars Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, William Hurt, Tim Blake Nelson, Ty Burrell, Christina Cabot, Peter Mensah. The film is directed by Louis Leterrier.


Sources: Box Office Mojo

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Comments (30)

  1. CelluloidDreams

    I just came from "The Happening"...and what a huge disappointment ....this has to be the 1st true dud of the Summer of 2008 for films!!!

    Now I can see why it was booed at Cannes..and it placed #3 at the box office over the weekend. By next weekend it will slip past the #5 spot...and by the end of June it will be gone!!!

    Nothing happend..No twist ending....No big plot bang......JUST NOTHING!!!!

    Between "The Happening" & "Lady in the Water" M. Night Shyamalan proved after "The Sixth Sense" he was a 1 trick pony!!

    Any new M. Night Shyamalan films that come out I will skip them & wait for late night cable!!!

    4 years agoby @2movieguysFlag

  2. justinishulk

    Hey guys you know... Hulk make 21 million in one day! Hulk buy Hulk new purple pants! Hulk love purple pants!! Mahes Hulk angry when purple pants rip! Hulk hates angry! AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!

    Hulk 15th. Hulk smash other 14!! lol

    4 years agoby @justinishulkFlag

  3. They call me ITCHY BALLS

    The Gardian News reviewer is a f*ckin' retard.

    4 years agoby @danbrchFlag

  4. Err

    i havent seen it yet, im waiting for this weekend, but heres the review from 'the guardian' news:
    "Hulk. Smash!" Yes. Hulk. Smash. Yes. Smash. Big Hulk smash. Smash cars. Buildings. Army tanks. Hulk not just smash. Hulk also go rarrr! Then smash again. Smash important, obviously. Smash Hulk's USP. What Hulk smash most? Hulk smash all hope of interesting time in cinema. Hulk take all effort of cinema, effort getting babysitter, effort finding parking, and Hulk put great green fist right through it. Hulk crush all hopes of entertainment. Hulk in boring film. Film co-written by star. Edward Norton. Norton in it. Norton write it. Norton not need gamma-radiation poisoning to get big head. Thing is: Hulk head weirdly small. Compared with rest of big green body.

    4 years agoby @err2005Flag

  5. Tronticon

    Yup--> Marcus.. "The Happening" just didnt happen for me!!!

    However.... Mannnnn ... Betty Buckly scared the crap outta me!!!! She was freakin great!!.. LOL. and i used to watch "8 Is Enough!!!

    LOL.. "You eyeing my lemon drink"!!!! LOL.. Whew!!

    4 years agoby @tronticonFlag

  6. HAPPYJACK

    SHOULD BE, NICE LITTLE ADD OF THE LEADER IN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    4 years agoby @happyjackFlag

  7. Saquin Turok 'X'

    Probably changed their names or left the site I should imagine. Never thought the Hulk would flop, just wanna see it. I assume a sequel's in the works too.

    4 years agoby @teesterxFlag

  8. sirmetro

    I wish i'd still remember the names of the motherf*ckers who said this movie was gonna be a flop,f*ck 'em.

    The day Hulk ruled the daMN world.

    4 years agoby @sirmetroFlag

  9. justinishulk

    i was not surprise but i know that hulk was going to be top

    4 years agoby @justinishulkFlag

  10. Marcusx

    nice, hulk was great but happening was absolutely atrocious. yeah i used the word atrocious. which it was

    4 years agoby @marcusxFlag

  11. HAPPYJACK

    VERY GOOD FILM! ONLY 1 VERY SMALL PROBLEM, FOR ME, COULD OF BEEN MORE ABOUT BANNER! STILL GREAT!!!!

    4 years agoby @happyjackFlag

  12. Phatlightning

    no surprise here.

    4 years agoby @sxers2k1Flag

  13. CelluloidDreams

    I will just Re-Sate myself....

    "The Incredible Hulk"....was Sooo cool (A little over-the-top in parts, but still cool!)...."The Incredible Hulk" blew my expectations out of the water...it kicked the sh*t out of Ang Lee's version!

    I would give the "The Incredible Hulk" a B+...!!

    I loved the pop culture reference W./the cameo by Lou Ferrigno!! That was so cool!

    4 years agoby @2movieguysFlag

  14. CelluloidDreams

    "The Incredible Hulk" made an estimated $21.03 million on its opening day!

    It made an estimated $54,538,000 dollars its opening weekend, placing it #1...YEAH!!

    4 years agoby @2movieguysFlag

  15. They call me ITCHY BALLS

    I think everyone spent their Government Stimilus Checks about the time IRON MAN came out.

    4 years agoby @danbrchFlag

  16. Buriblazing

    great movie!! by far the best hulk movie go support

    this movie its Awesome grest job by marvel studios!!

    4 years agoby @buriblazingFlag

  17. T.Clark

    Wow...money wise, iron man beat the sh*t outta hulk...as for the actual movie, they're both on the same level of awesomeness

    4 years agoby @insertusernamehereFlag

  18. PUNISHER

    I just got back from Hulk, and I have to admit it was pretty badass.

    4 years agoby @cerealkillerFlag

  19. They call me ITCHY BALLS

    It was up to $53,999,990, then I went to to cineplex and made it $54,000,000. Heh heh.

    4 years agoby @danbrchFlag

  20. Demonic

    The hulk was f*cking sweet the special fx were awesome and i didnt find any of the movie to be boring like the 1st one.

    4 years agoby @demonicFlag

  21. RingWraither

    8 million short of Ang Lee's 03' The Incredible Hulk MIGHT surpass its total of 132, but I dont think it will because of all the hyped upcoming releases...

    4 years agoby @ringwraitherFlag

  22. DasBoot

    The Incredible Hulk was f*cking awesome!!!!!!

    4 years agoby @dasbootFlag

  23. justinishulk

    woooooooooooow!!! my eyes hurting me when i watched the HULK!!!! so very awesome... going to watch it again

    4 years agoby @justinishulkFlag

  24. Shadow Of The Day

    Awesome.

    4 years agoby @asifFlag

  25. Diaigma

    Ang Lee's Hulk was in 2003, actually.

    4 years agoby @diaigmaFlag

  26. CelluloidDreams

    "The Incredible Hulk"....was Sooo cool (A little over-the-top in parts, but still cool!)...."The Incredible Hulk" blew my expectations out of the water...it kicked the sh*t out of Ang Lee's version!

    I would give the "The Incredible Hulk" a B+...!!
    I loved the pop culture reference W./the cameo by Lou Ferrigno!! That was so cool!

    I agree W./"Shmaniel1"...WOW!..."The Happening" still did good, & #3 dispite all the bad reviews!!

    After "Lady in the Water" I skipped "The Happening"......I'm off work tomrrow so mabey I will catch "The Happening"!.

    4 years agoby @2movieguysFlag

  27. Flrep07

    this sucks, Sex and the City got more on its opening weekend that Hulk. And what the hulk got wasnt really impressiv, but because of the big let down by the first hulk movie, the new one being number one is very good.

    4 years agoby @flrep07Flag

  28. TheLogicalDan

    wow, the happening still did good with all the bad reviews.

    4 years agoby @thelogicaldanFlag

  29. XJWS79

    I did the same thing Ed Wood, the manager told me to keep my voice down, because there was a line at the door waiting to see it.
    Hulk was playing at our 2nd theater in town, it was awesome. I'm surprised it didn't make more than 54.5.

    4 years agoby @xjws79Flag

  30. ed_wood

    The Incredible Hulk was awesome, want to see it again. The Happening is the Worst movie I have ever had to sit through. Pure garbage. We actually asked for our money back, with no luck.

    4 years agoby @ed-woodFlag

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