Well now we begin what I like to know mainly as the box office waltz, where each summer movie at this moment that gets released (and is big time) gets a slice of the number one spot. It doesn’t happen all summer though, usually lasts until the start or mid-June, but the latest Ron Howard movie Angels & Demons continued the trend as they graced their way in opening weekend to a whopping 48 million. Despite it’s religiously questioning premise of a secret organization trying to take down the Vatican and all its inhabitants in her, people still rushed their way to theaters to see this clock ticking mystery.
"We have beaten you Trekkies." *Laughs evily*
Despite the nice amount of bank Angels and Demons raked in, hot behind it’s tail was the J.J. Abrams Star Trek, only missing the mark by only five million. This might just be myself guessing, but personally last night I went to check out the movie once again and there were a considerable amount of Trekkies in my movie theater making their second or third trip to watch Chris Pine and others jump onto the Enterprise.
The rest of the flicks have been holding up fine, surprisingly so with Obsessed making way more than people thought it would (raking in 62 with a 20 mil budget) as well as films making their ginormous budgets back such as X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Monsters Vs. Aliens. Here below is the rest of the top ten stats from this previous weekend.
Weekend Box Office (May 15-17)
- Angels & Demons ($48 Million)
- Star Trek ($43 Million)
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine ($14.8 Million)
- Ghost of Girlfriend’s Past ($6.8 Million)
- Obsessed ($4.5 Million)
- 17 Again ($3.4 Million)
- Monsters Vs. Aliens ($3 Million)
- The Soloist ($2.4 Million)
- Next Day Air ($2.2 Million)
- DisneyNature’s Earth ($1.6 Million)
The slow weekend of movies quickly comes to an end as the big guns start to come out. Terminator: Salvation, The Hangover, Dance Flick and Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian storm their way into theaters for this coming weekend. Stay here on Atomic Popcorn as well for Terminator: Retrograde as reviewer Philip does a day-by-day review on each one of the previous Terminator films following up to the final review on the latest one from director McG.
