Weekend Box-Office

WEEKEND BOX-OFFICE

Movies starting with "W" rock!!!

For the 9th time in a row, Pixar opens their latest film in 1st place, although this one got a little tricky, as Angelina Jolie and her latest sexy action adventure movie, WANTED, finished only $10M behind WALL-E and his band of robots. WALL-E tied MONSTERS INC for the 3rd biggest Pixar movie opening ever (behind FINDING NEMO and THE INCREDIBLES, both of which had opened with around $70M), and seems prepped to surpass the average Pixar movie gross of $218M sometime in the next few weeks.

WANTED turned into Jolie's biggest opening ever (must've been those bullet-time shots in the trailer) right behind the $50M opening of MR. AND MRS. SMITH, in which she co-starred with her life-partner William Bradley Pitt. The film also became the 3rd highest grossing R-rated action film of all-time, behind THE MATRIX RELOADED ($92M) and 300 ($71M).

Despite the strong opening for THE INCREDIBLE HULK, it seems to be headed toward the same box-office conclusion as its predecessor, THE HULK, from back in 2003, which ended its run around $132M. The latest HULK is currently sitting at $116M. KUNG FU PANDA is still going strong and might soon become the 3rd film of the year to break the $200M mark (after IRON MAN and INDIANA JONES 4). THE LOVE GURU, on the other hand, appears slated to "beat" SPEED RACER as the smallest box-office grosser of the summer movies so far. GURU currently sits at $25M, while RACER finished with about $42M.

Despite closing in on the $100M mark, YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN will be the lowest-grossing "Adam Sandler comedy" since 2000's LITTLE NICKY (that's right, even last year's I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU CHUCK AND LARRY made about $120M). M. Night Shyamalan's THE HAPPENING has already grossed more than his previous disappointment, THE LADY IN THE WATER ($42M), but it's still far and away from his early major successes like THE SIXTH SENSE ($293M) and SIGNS ($227M).

Next week, a little holiday better known as "Will Smith's Movie Weekend", i.e. Independence Day, is coming along, right alongside Mr. Smith's latest-looking blockbuster entitled HANCOCK. The film is getting rocked by early reviews, but "regular audiences" seem to be digging on it, so it'll be interesting to see how much money it ends up making next week, especially since it opens on Wednesday. How much $$$ do you think it will make? VOTE HERE!!!

1. Wall-E	$ 62.5 Million	NEW
2. Wanted	$ 51.1 Million	NEW
3. Get Smart	$ 20 Million	$ 77.3 Million
4. Kung Fu Panda	$ 11.7 Million	$ 179.3 Million
5. The Incredible Hulk	$ 9.2 Million	$ 115.5 Million
6. The Love Guru	$ 5.4 Million	$ 25.3 Million
7. Indiana Jones and...	$ 5 Million	$ 299.9 Million
8. The Happening	$ 3.9 Million	$ 59.1 Million
9. Sex and the City	$ 3.8 Million	$ 140.1 Million
10. You Don't Mess with...	$ 3.2 Million	$ 91.2 Million

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