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Weekend Box-Office Jun. 29, 2008
Source: BoxOfficeMojo.comYahoo Movies by: JoBlo


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
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2. Wanted $ 51.1 Million
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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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mcfly24 on Jun 30 2008, 2:00:26 PM writes:
WALL-E WAS AWESOME
Wall-E was great. Here's a idea of why it was awesome from a andrew stanton interview at avclub: AS: "Yeah. We looked long and hard at why Toy Story worked so well. We realized that one of the biggest reasons was that we were not in L.A., and that just with our guts, we could trick ourselves into thinking these movies were for ourselves. We're not trying to second-guess what the demographics are, or try to second-guess who our audience is. We're just going to make a movie we want to see. We feel like we go to the movies enough that we know what we want: Movies made by a singular vision. Made by a filmmaker who knew what he wanted. That's why I go to the movies—I go to see what those filmmakers want to make. I don't go to see what a studio wants. And so we've applied that ever since."
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justinpdrew on Jun 30 2008, 1:40:27 AM writes:

loucifer:

Just because you liked Incredible Hulk better, doesn't mean it will do better.

Lee's HULK had a domestic gross of $132,177,234, five million short of its budget. Incredible Hulk, on the other hand, has only made $115,508,000 thus far, but had a budget of 150 million. And since it's going to get some strong competition in the coming weeks from Hancock, Hellboy, not to mention the most anticipated movie in years The Dark Knight, it will (most likely) fall off the radar real fast.

Oh, and consider this: HULK's foreign box office almost doubled its domestic tally with $113,183,246. Incredible Hulk's foreign box office since its opening has only reached $64,086,564. Ang Lee wins.
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loucifer on Jun 30 2008, 1:12:10 AM writes:

a lot of respect to mark millar (wanted) because i love his work, but incredible hulk will do better than Ang Lee's HULK. I don't give a damn what anyone says. Incredible hulk was awesome compared to Ang Lee's garbage.
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reddwarffan on Jun 30 2008, 12:04:46 AM writes:
COOL
Pixar can do no wrong, not many if any other studios can say that
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mattchu161 on Jun 29 2008, 11:26:00 PM writes:
WANTED DESERVES IT!
I loved "Wanted", I even liked it more than "Iron Man", which is insane since that movie was (previously) my favorite movie of the year.

I'm really looking forward to seeing WALL-E, it looks amazing (as do all Pixar movies, except Cars...I didn't like that one all that much).
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mr boejangles on Jun 29 2008, 11:17:08 PM writes:
SAW BOTH THIS WEEKEND BUT
it was crazy because Wanted was getting sold out everywhere!
I liked Wall-e better though.
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Snowboy on Jun 29 2008, 9:45:17 PM writes:

Wall-E was just beautiful, while I still can't wait to see Wanted. Finally..films that deserve to be at the top of the box office.
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FireCaptain4 on Jun 29 2008, 8:37:35 PM writes:
LIKE MOST OF YOU FELLOW SCHMOES...
I was really impressed with "Wanted", I was expecting a half-assed popcorn flick that "ripped off of 'Fight Club' and 'The Matrix'". Well, it did, but it was a good film on its own never-the-less.

As far as 'Wall-E' goes, of course it was a masterpiece! Did you expect anything less? Honestly? Anyway, no matter which way you swung this past weekend (or if you swang both ways.. kinda like me... just sayin'), you still won.

It's cool to see that both flicks did so well.
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msi_urine15 on Jun 29 2008, 8:27:53 PM writes:
WALL E
i freakin loved this movie. best pixar movie yet. right up there with the incrdibles i even posted alotof information on it on my movie news website ddog-insidefilm.com
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moptopcharlie on Jun 29 2008, 7:55:30 PM writes:
OPPOSITE ENDS
I guess every one went to see Wall-E with the kids and then chased it down with the blood letting that is Wanted

I saw Wanted and I know all the haters out there are like " Uhg it's a total rip off of Fight Club and The Matrix" which it is. However I think thats what made it better then 90% of all the garbage action movies out there. I always thought they should take the Fight Club formula to a commercial actionier.
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