Monday Morning Box Office Report: Up Cashes In
The Pixar name continues to equate to box office office gold, as Up soared to the third highest opening weekend for a Pixar movie ever with a $68.2 million take, putting it behind The Incredibles and Finding Nemo and just ahead of Wall-E. It was also the 4th highest opening for 2009 thus far (only Star Trek, X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Fast & Furious have done better). Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian had a solid second weekend, dropping down to the #2 slot, while Sam Raimi’s Drag Me To Hell did about average business for a horror flick, notching $16.6 million. Terminator Salvation and Star Trek rounded out the top 5. Ron Howard’s Angels & Demons, meanwhile, suffered a 48% drop to earn just $11.2 million in its third weekend.
1. Up — $68.2M
2. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian — $25.5M
3. Drag Me to Hell — $16.6M
4. Terminator Salvation — $16.1M
5. Star Trek — $12.8M
6. Angels & Demons — $11.2M
7. Dance Flick — $4.9M
8. X-Men Origins: Wolverine — $3.9M
9. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past — $1.91M
10. Obsessed — $665K
Comments (2)
Is anybody really suprised that it was number 1?. Anyway I have yet to see this film, but I have heard nothing but good things about it.
Posted by Matt Keith on June 1st, 2009America, you demanded an animated Ed Asner feature film, Pixar heard you and delivered.
Posted by Mason on June 1st, 2009Leave a Reply