Monday, July 25, 2011

Weekend Box Office

1. Captain America - $65.83 million - 1 wk (Par)
. . . 3715 screens / $17,719 per screen
2. Harry Potter 7 Pt. 2 - $48.07 ($274.18) - 2 wks (WB) -71.6%
. . . 4375 / $10,986
3. Friends with Benefits - $18.5 - 1 wk (SG)
. . . 2926 / $6323
4. Transformers 3 - $12 ($325.79) - 4 wks (Par) -43.7%
. . . 3375 / $3556
5. Horrible Bosses - $11.72 ($82.4) - 3 wks (NL) -34.1%
. . . 3104 / $3776
6. Zookeeper - $8.7 ($59.2) - 3 wks (Sony) -29.4%
. . . 3215 / $2706
7. Cars 2 - $5.73 ($176.45) - 5 wks (BV) -31.9%
. . . 2668 / $2146
8. Winnie the Pooh - $5.14 ($17.57) - 2 wks (BV) -34.6%
. . . 2405 / $2138
9. Bad Teacher - $2.6 ($94.36) - 5 wks (Sony) -49.5%
. . . 2034 / $1278
10. Midnight in Paris - $1.9 ($44.88) - 10 wks (SPC) +1.2%
. . . 621 / $3058

Further down the list, Thor passed $180 million, Bridesmaids passed $163, Kung Fu Panda 2 passed $160, Super 8 passed $124, and X-Men: First Class passed $144.

Marvel and Paramount have to be thrilled with Captain America opening as well as it did, buried in the middle of July amongst all these other special-effects blockbusters. Green Lantern's fizzling out at $113 million, for instance.

Harry's 71% drop in Week 2 would be noteworthy if their Week 1 hadn't been so huge. It's easily going to be the highest grosser of the summer, and therefore the year. I don't see another movie crossing the $300 million mark, so Harry will make up for WB's losses with Green Lantern, and with Transformers, Captain America, Thor and Super 8, Paramount has a lot to crow about.

Considering that Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis have never opened a movie, I don't know who could have hoped Friends with Benefits to open to more.

Midnight in Paris keeps chugging along. I haven't seen an inflation adjuster anywhere, but it is technically Woody Allen's highest-grossing movie.

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