What turned out to be a not-so-surprising end result, Disney/Pixar’s Up dominated the weekend box office. Raking in 68.2 Million, it jumps into the top three biggest opening Pixar movies (behind Finding Nemo & The Incredibles). Up, featuring the voices of Edward Asner and Jordan Nagai, was a film that definitely filled up the seats in a theater and cracked open the water works for those who know what this reporter is referring to.
"What are you freaked out for Russell? Were above everyone else."
Sam Raimi’s Drag Me To Hell tried to drag the horror fans out to the best of it’s abilities, but fell a little short by wrangling up 16 million, landing in fourth underneath the Ben Stiller starring film Night At The Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian and McG’s Terminator Salvation. Wrangling in tons of mixed reviews did not help the film’s case either, even with the families making their trips to the movie theaters.
Every other film in the top ten faired pretty well, with Obsessed still getting a form of a crowd in while Terminator: Salvation hopes to get a consistent one to make up its 200 million dollar budget. The weekend intake is listed below:
Weekend Box Office (May 29-31)
- Disney/Pixar’s Up ($68.2 Million)
- Night At The Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian ($25.5 Million)
- Terminator: Salvation ($16.4 Million)
- Drag Me To Hell ($15.8 Million)
- Star Trek ($12.8 Million)
- Angels & Demons ($11.2 Million)
- Dance Flick ($4.9 Million)
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine ($3.9 Million)
- Ghost of Girlfriend’s Past ($1.9 Million)
- Obsessed ($665,000)
Coming up for this next weekend is the Will Ferrel Land of the Lost along with Away We Go, My Life in Ruins & The Hangover. Keep your eyes on here for the latest reviews and news on movies and then some!
CarysNow, see, I have a bit of cronradictoty nature when it comes to being scared. Scary films? I would really rather not. Paranormal Activity (1, 2 or 3) would probably ensure I would never sleep normally in my house again (not helped by the fact we live in an old house) and being as ‘im indoors goes away for work alot, I need to make sure I can sleep in the house alone at night. Which, with my stonkingly active imagination, is actually quite hard….However, ghost walks? Tours of haunted houses? YES PLEASE! I have absolutely *no* idea why these are more acceptable to me, but I bloody love them. Husband, unfortunately, isn’t much of a fan – he’s far too logical to believe in such things – which is a shame. Happily, I managed to convince him (read: booked the tickets before he could say yes/no) to go on a ghost tour when we were on our Honeymoon, which just happened to be in Edinburgh. It was the Mary King’s Close tour, which I have to say I found absolutely *fascinating* but I wasn’t as scared as I was worried it would be. Although I have similar issues with being at the back, or Husband being anywhere other than Holding My Hand So Damn Tight, so I feel your pain there. Which tour was it that you did, out of curiosity?