Everyone Loves Bruno, Not Beth Cooper
Sacha Baron Cohen takes over the box office again, this time with his gay Austrian fame seeker in the mockumentary, Bruno. Taking in about 30 million, despite the overall slightly weakened amount of people flooding down to the theaters, Bruno still caught the eyes of people who took in Borat and loved it just like myself. With what appears to have possibly been in some people’s minds as a fight for first between the teen comedy I Love You, Beth Cooper and Bruno, the second of the two won within the first round.
I Love You, Beth Cooper, starring Hayden Panettiere, Paul Rust, Jack Carpenter and others, did not perform as well as it could have. Only scratching at the surface with 4.9 million, this high school graduation night film did not reach out towards its target audience as well as it could have. Possibly, if the film would have been released around early June which is technically high school graduation time, I’m sure the appeal of it to the teenage masses would have drawn in more sales, but that’s just me.
Everything else maintained the same sales as the previous week, except for the now slowly falling Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Even though it did break some box office records and has a hefty profit from tickets, the robot friendly movie is sliding itself down into third with 24.2 million. The rest of the box office is listed below:
Weekend Box Office (July 10-12)
- Bruno ($30.6 Million)
- Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs ($27.6 Million)
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen ($24.2 Million)
- Public Enemies ($13.7 Million)
- The Proposal ($10.6 Million)
- The Hangover ($9.9 Million)
- I Love You, Beth Cooper ($4.9 Million)
- Disney/Pixar’s Up ($4.7 Million)
- My Sister’s Keeper ($4.2 Million)
- The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 ($1.5 Million)
Get your wands at the ready, because this Wednesday is the release of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Then jumping its way out into limited theaters is 500 Days of Summer, Bull and many others.
