| Film | Weekend | Per | Lifetime | |
| 1 | Toy Story 3 | $109,000,000 | $27,061 | $109,000,000 |
| 2 | The Karate Kid | $29,000,000 (-47.9%) | $7,917 | $106,254,000 |
| 3 | The A-Team | $13,775,000 (-46.3%) | $3,887 | $49,797,000 |
| 4 | Get Him to the Greek | $6,117,000 (-38.5%) | $2,360 | $47,857,000 |
| 5 | Shrek Forever After | $5,520,000 (-65.0%) | $1,721 | $222,977,000 |
| 6 | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | $5,273,000 (-18.7%) | $2,024 | $80,508,000 |
| 7 | Killers | $5,100,000 (-36.3%) | $1,947 | $39,370,000 |
| 8 | Jonah Hex | $5,085,000 | $1,800 | $5,085,000 |
| 9 | Iron Man 2 | $2,675,000 (-40.8%) | $1,659 | $304,764,000 |
| 10 | Marmaduke | $2,650,000 (-55.9%) | $1,062 | $27,886,000 |
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Toy Story 3 – unless it acts like the third X-Men film and collapses immediately – is now pretty much guaranteed to get over or within spitting range of $300 Million domestic. The other films that have done better and haven’t crossed the $300 mark tend to be more front-loaded. This is going to play (though there’s Harry Potters that have opened bigger and didn’t hit $300). $400 is also not out of the question, and the film looks to be the premiere kids entertainment of the summer, so though it opened like a sequel, it isn’t necessarily as front loaded. Regardless, international will be strong, and Pixar wins again.
The Karate Kid crossed $100 Million this weekend. It will need to slow down if it has any hopes of crossing the $200 Mark. It could, as it weathered Toy Story better than Shrek, but a $170 total is more likely at this point. But that’s a great number, where The A Team isn’t yet at $50. Hope international is better, boys, you’re not going to get to $100 domestic. Shrek 4 is wrapping up, but everything is so weak right now it could hang out a bit longer. Still, $250 is out of reach now.
Get Him to the Greek is a modest success for what it is, and could keep playing for a bit, even with Grown Ups next week. Persia dropped 18%, so Disney is saying “yeah, we want to limp it to $100.” But that is an uphill climb, whereas the same weekend’s Sex and the City 2 is at $90 but also out of the top ten. Iron Man 2 is comfortably over $300, and so that it didn’t outperform the original is not a big deal cause it’ll be close. By now it strikes me there was more sequel talk for the first film than there is for this one. But Marvel’s on a multi-tiered assault on the cinemas, and we are not there yet with Captain America or The Avengers (or Thor for that matter), so they’re likely happy enough. Marma-done. Ashton Kutcher is supposedly an international draw. Lionsgate better hope that’s true with Killers.
Jonah Hex was a disaster all the way around, and may collaterally cement Megan Fox’s career. It should outperform MacgGruber, but only just. We’re almost there, almost ready for the next Twilight movie, and I – for one – am excited.
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Hells yeah Toy Story 3! One of the best flicks of the year animated or otherwise and, IMO, the best of the 3 films. Deserves all the kudos and so much more. I did not expect Jonah Hex to bomb that badly, but it seems like westerns are not big draws and people in general might just be too grossed out by Brolin's disfigured mug (I told someone I had planned on seeing it and they made a grossed out face and said "really?," but that reaction could have been for the movie too). I wish Marmaduke would fall out of the top 10 already. Out of all the crappy kiddie material 20th Century Fox has crapped out (Alvin and the Chipmunks, Garfield) it seems the least imaginative. Another person I spoke with said they would only see that movie if the great dane slit his wrists just like Owen Wilson did in real life.
Why would it cement Megan Fox's career? On what planet is she responsible for this film's failure? If anything, it should make people realize Brolin is a hell of a character actor and not a movie star.
Seriously, blaming Megan Fox for this film's failure is so sexist that it really makes me wonder why people hate her so much, when she even goes out of her way to make fanboys happy by slamming Michael Bay.
Anything that collaterally cements Megan Fox's career is good news. Hurrah for Jonah Hex! May Megan Fox never work in a mainstream movie again. Look for her in a Cuba Gooding Jnr classic or perhaps the next Seagal movie, in about six months.
comment #2—megan fox is not a box office draw. i think that that`s what was being said. her name was being used to try to sell jonah hex, jennifer`s body, and (to some extent) whatever that one simon pegg movie was, and all of them failed. she became famous for playing the piece of ass in a movie about giant killer robots that didn`t need a piece of ass in it that would have been successful with or without her. if she was at all responsible for the success of the transformers films, don`t you think it would have reflected in the performance of her starring vehicles at least a liiiiiittle bit? i`m sure she`ll continue to work, but i doubt that anything is going to be built around her for quite some time. maybe she needs to do something like "valentine`s day" (ok, maybe a bad example…), something that`s an ensemble piece without big special effects that she doesn`t have to carry on her own, where she just might not be the worst actor in the thing.
What does Megan Fox bring to any role she's ever had (all two of them) besides being kinda hot? Her delivery is so awkward it completely jars the audience out of the movie.
Megan Fox isn't "movie star" hot, she's hot in the same way that many porno chicks are hot; her acting ability is about on par with porno chicks, too. And I say this as someone who likes her!
Has Scott Pilgrim flopped yet?
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