Monday Morning Box Office Report: The Basterds Burn Up the Box Office
Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds broke free of the Grindhouse curse and set a new personal best for QT with a $37.6 million opening weekend (Kill Bill Vol. 2 opened with just $25 million). It was also one of the top grossing August movies of all time, which is good news for the cash strapped Weinstein Company. Elsewhere, District 9 had a decent second weekend, dropping about 49% from last week, which isn’t nearly as big a drop as the comparable Cloverfield experienced last year. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra held down the #3 spot, while The Time Traveler’s Wife and Julie & Julia rounded out the top 5 by providing some welcome non-testosterone driven entertainment. Robert Rodriguez’s Shorts didn’t fare nearly as well as his Spy Kids trilogy, earning just $6.6 million, while the comedy Post Grad out and out bombed, with a disappointing $2.8 million total.
1. Inglourious Basterds — $37.6M
2. District 9 — $18.9M
3. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra — $12.5M
4. The Time Traveler’s Wife — $10M
5. Julie & Julia — $9M
6. Shorts — $6.6M
7. G-Force — $4.21M
8. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince — $3.52M
9. The Ugly Truth — $2.85M
10. Post Grad — $2.8M
Comments (6)
I’m not surprised about D9…for all the love we showed and the “want” for this to be a juggernaut it simply has to many things going against it 1) it has like one leg of the Hollywood Quadrant – no appeal for women and older ticket buyers, rated R which cuts out the kids. 2) the love story isn’t strong 3) no big star or even B level ensemble. All of the people in the Chicago audience I saw it with were fanboys. It will make plenty of money for years in DVD and cult screenings
Posted by rus in chicago on August 24th, 2009About D9 … it’s not that bad (or rare) to see a movie drop 40-50% in its 2nd week, is it?
D9 is far from a failure even in mainstream terms at this point. Two weeks and $73 million in August is something to be very proud of, not to mention it has already more than doubled its budget.
I guess it probably won’t be a “juggernaut” in the range of $200 million but still a definite surprise and success. And still something for the industry to take note of.
Posted by Brett on August 24th, 2009Yeah, it’s still proving to have some staying power, it just won’t be a massive smash hit.
Posted by Sean on August 24th, 2009D9 has already made its impact by being no. 1 it’s opening week and being well on its way to making a big profit. No one should expect it to gross huge numbers nor for it to either maintain or grow its revenues. The movie business just doesn’t work that way any more. I think Titanic was the last movie that just kept going and going but that was a unique example for sure.
Posted by Maopheus on August 24th, 2009really? Blair Witch, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, The Matrix, The Hangover, Borat, Slumdog Millionaire, The Dark Knight, there are plenty of films that build a buzz and pick-up steam. the 50% drop is a disappointment as it puts D9 in the camp with so much shit. It obliviously was affected by Basterds.
Posted by rus in chicago on August 24th, 2009Rus,
Posted by Fatbologna on August 24th, 2009The Dark Night? Really?
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