Monday Morning Box Office Report: Wolverine Shreds Piracy
The bean counters over at Fox have a lot to be happy about this week as X-Men Origins: Wolverine had a solid opening to kick off the summer blockbuster season, earning $87 million. It wasn’t quite as successful as Iron Man last year, which debuted with $98 million, nor the last X-Men movie, which made $102 million in its first weekend, but all in all, a great showing for a movie that some thought would be compromised because of a leaked DVD-quality workprint. Elsewhere, Matthew McConaughey’s romantic comedy Ghosts of Girlfriends Past didn’t live up to expectations, making just $15 million (apparently all the ladies wanted to ogle Hugh Jackman instead), and the CG film Battle for Terra had a catastrophic opening: just $1 million earned on over 1,000 screens. Yikes. Next weekend all eyes will be on Star Trek.
1. X-Men Origins: Wolverine — $87M
2. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past — $15.3M
3. Obsessed — $12.2M
4. 17 Again — $6.36M
5. Monsters vs Aliens — $5.8M
6. The Soloist — $5.6M
7. Earth — $4.18M
8. Fighting — $4.17M
9. Hannah Montana: The Movie — $4.08M
10. State of Play — $3.66M
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Everybody that i know that saw the leaked movie went to the theaters to see the finished version, because they wanted to see the differences.
Posted by mike on May 4th, 2009Leave a Reply