The Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock romantic comedy (I don’t care what you say about the genre Sandra) The Proposal topples over its competition during its opening weekend marking its territory in first place. Raking in an estimated 33.6 million, this film caught the right audience, despite the mixed reviews, and still shows that people will never get tired of watching movies from this genre. Tapping into Philip’s weekly piece, The Wrong Guess, he underestimated what The Proposal would end up doing in the box office.
Poor Ryan Reynolds, two big time openings in one summer, boo hoo.
Regarding The Hangover, the comedy behemoth finally resided in second place, still taking a great amount of bank within the realms of 26.7 million. Sorry there Philip, you were really close with your numbers (29 million) but not on the spot. The overall intake now makes it a whopping 152 million, making sure that this Todd Phillips 35 million budget film has plenty of extra cash to spread around.
What’s that you say? There still was another film that was released along with The Proposal? Why yes there was, the Harold Ramis directed comedy called Year One, starring Michael Cera and Jack Black. Making a modest amount around the lines of 19 million (so close!), this film better get more people into it fast if they plan to make back their 60 million dollar budget. Right now it’s not looking too good.
Speaking of not looking good, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (almost there Philip) ended up still flailing about still well below the budget margin possibly deeming it as a flop (money wise). Land of the Lost and Imagine That join the crowd of just-not-enough not showing any sign in sight of any sort of bumps up in sales, especially with one of the summer’s most anticipated movies rolling out into theaters this Wednesday. The rest of the weekend list is below:
Weekend Box Office (June 19-21)
- The Proposal ($33.6 Million)
- The Hangover ($26.7 Million)
- Disney/Pixar’s Up ($23.4 Million)
- Year One ($19.6 Million)
- The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 ($12 Million)
- Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian ($7.8 Million)
- Star Trek ($5.5 Million)
- Land of the Lost ($4.3 Million)
- Imagine That ($3.29 Million)
- Terminator: Salvation ($3.28 Million)
Keep yourself pinned here on Atomic Popcorn for the latest wave of releases with the likes of Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen, Cheri, Il Divo, The Hurt Locker among many others.
