Weekend Box Office

1. Transformers: Dark of the Moon - $97.4 million ($162.12) - 1 wk (Par)
. . . 4013 screens / $24,271 per screen
2. Cars 2 - $25.11 ($116.04) - 2 wks (BV) -62%
. . . 4115 / $6103
3. Bad Teacher - $14.1 ($59.55) - 2 wks (Sony) -55.4%
. . . 3049 / $4624
4. Larry Crowne - $13 - 1 wk (U)
. . . 2973 / $4375
5. Monte Carlo - $7.6 - 1 wk (Fox)
. . . 2473 / $3073
6. Super 8 - $7.5 ($108.04) - 4 wks (Par) -37.6%
. . . 3088 / $2429
7. Green Lantern - $6.27 ($101.96) - 3 wks (WB) -65.2%
. . . 3280 / $1912
8. Mr. Popper's Penguins - $5.1 ($50.13) - 3 wks (Fox) -49.7%
. . . 2861 / $1783
9. Bridesmaids - $3.52 ($152.9) - 8 wks (U) -33.1%
. . . 1389 / $2535
10. Midnight in Paris - $3.44 ($33.64) - 7 wks (SPC) -17.6%
. . . 858 / $4007
11. X-Men: First Class - $2.9 ($138.61) - 5 wks (Fox) -56.6%
. . . 1602 / $1810
12. The Hangover II - $2.27 ($248.12) - 6 wks (WB) -59.3%
. . . 1568 / $1448
13. Pirates of the Caribbean 4 - $2.16 ($233.7) - 7 wks (BV) -56.3%
. . . 1473 / $1463
14. Kung Fu Panda 2 - $1.53 ($156.7) - 6 wks (DW) -63.5%
. . . 1281 / $1190
15. The Tree of Life - $1 ($7.5) - 6 wks (FS) -24.7%
. . . 228 / $4386

Further down, Thor passed $177 million, and thus justifies the greenlighting of Thor 2 for Summer 2013. Warner Bros. has said they're moving forward with Green Lantern 2, which makes no sense to me.

Transformers 3 should cross the magical $300 million domestic line, something no movie has yet done this year. But Pirates 4 just passed $1 billion wordlwide, so I don't think DIsney's too concerned about it domestically topping out at $250 mil.

Bridesmaids is now the highest-grossing movie ever produced by Judd Apatow.

Cars 2's steep drop indicates it won't be seeing the $200 million domestic mark, but I expect it'll be huge overseas.

Bad Teacher's turning out to be a quiet hit for Cameron Diaz.

Larry Crowne is the nail in the coffin of the notion that Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts are still A-list movie stars. Or maybe no one wanted to spend their summer watching a midle-aged man get laid off, regardless of who embodied him.

Monte Carlo was cheap to make, but Fox must be disappointed Selena Gomez couldn't get more of her fans to come out. Should they have made more effort to point out that Glee's Cory Monteith is in it?

Midnight in Paris is on pace to become Woody Allen's highest-grosser of all time (if you don't adjust for inflation. His record is still the $40 million taken in by 1986's Hannah & Her Sisters.)