Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Box office Tuesday

This box office included the special Labor Day holiday, so the weekend numbers are a bit larger than normal.

In a surprise move, "The Final Destination" held onto the No. 1 spot with around $15 million, bringing its two week total to $50 million. Its budget was only $40 million, so its a hit.

The new films that attempted to dethrone "The Final Destination" included "All About Steve," "Gamer" and "Extract."

"All About Steve," with some really horrible reviews (sitting at five percent at Rotten Tomatoes), managed to be somewhat critic-proof pulling in around $14 million. "Gamer" starring Gerard Butler came in at No. 4 with $11 million.

"Extract" didn't fare too well only pulling in around $5 million and at the No. 10 position, behind movies like "G.I. Joe" and "The Time Traveler's Wife."

A survivor from last week "Halloween 2" only dropped 56 percent from its first week, a far better percent than the first Rob Zombie "Halloween" which saw its second week drop a staggering 63 percent.

A bright spot this weekend was another film passed the $100 million mark, the nineteenth film to do so, "District 9." With the budget at $30 million this is a big hit of not only the summer, but the year.

Another big thing was "Transformers 2" passed the golden $400 million mark. With a budget of $200 million, this is a monster movie money making machine (gotta love alliteration!). Its worldwide total is a jaw dropping $830 million! Wowza. Point of reference, last year's No. 1 "The Dark Knight" made a little over $1 billion worldwide and 2007's "Spiderman 3" did $890 million.

One last maybe-milestone: The new "Harry Potter" film is about $2.5 million away from breaking the $300 million dollar club.

"Transformers 2" is the lonely at the top, it needs company.

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