Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian widened its first place lead by grossing $20 million on Saturday, according to box-office estimates. This brings its three-day weekend estimate to $53.5 million. By comparison, the original Night at the Museum opened to a three-day weekend tally of $30.4 million in December 2006, and then showed incredible stamina during the following months. As for Terminator Salvation, the future may be looking bleak. Salvation grossed $14.8 million on Saturday — a small drop from its estimated Friday harvest of $15 million. Nearly all of the movies in the Top 10 saw Friday-to-Saturday boosts of at least 20%, so the fact that Salvation’s numbers are actually dropping is cause for concern. Salvation is on track for a three-day weekend total of $43 million. The last Terminator movie, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, opened to $44 million during Independence Day weekend in 2003. Saturday’s figures are below, and check back here on Monday for a full four-day holiday weekend recap.
1. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian – $20 mil
2. Terminator Salvation — $14.8 mil
3. Star Trek — $8.4 mil
4. Angels and Demons — $8.1 mil
5. Dance Flick — $3.9 mil
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Wolverine opens with an impressive $87 million
EW.com’s Box Office Chart
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LMAO!!!!! See what happens when you make a pg13 Terminator with a director named MCG….200 million plus budget with a less than 50 million opening weekend…I’m guessing plans for a trilogy are in jeopardy now.
The bad word of mouth has put me off from seeing Terminator this weekend. I’d rather go to Star Trek again or save my cash for next week’s Drag Me to Hell.
Wow! T4 is flopping! LOL
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Star Trek was still full on Saturday-mostly with families.
At least Wolverine managed to make its money back – T4 on the other hand…..
Well, I went and saw Terminator: Salvation on Wednesday night and think that it’s better than people are giving it credit for. It was much better than Wolverine and Terminator 3, and I believed it earned it’s place in the franchise.
Said it yesterday and I’ll say it again today. McG is a franchise killer!!!!!!!
You forgot to mention T4 brought in 13 million before friday so it’s actually at 56 million right now, 3 million ahead of Night at the Museum.
this is such bullsh*t
honestly there isn’t even that bad of a word of mouth for terminator. the press is just bashing the hell of it because its not the same as the first two movies.
T4 is a terrible movie. But what can you expect from the same writers that wrote Catwoman. Yeah, they added some Robocop rip off, that didn’t have anything to do with the previous Terminator movies. Then added some huge plot holes, about Skynet and Kyle.
Bale basically rehashing his Batman persona was also boring.
How I rank this summer’s box office champs so far (from best to worst)
1. Star Trek (good enough, not a GREAT a film as everyone’s touting. Go rent 1996’s ST: First Contract instead)
2. Angels and Demons (kept my attention, better than Da Vinci Code)
3. Terminator: Salvation (decent action, weak story)
4. Wolverine (just a mess)
And now I await Up, Transformers 2, et al.
A Terminator movie directed by McG sucks? I never would have guessed…
Bale and McG Zzzzzzzzz
Never would have guess that the terminators got taken out by Ben Stiller!
McG sucks!
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Terminator Salvation definitely wasn’t a terrible movie–just took itself a little too seriously once Christian Bale brought out his Batman whisper.
Thats what happens when u make a terminator movie without Arnold
You and I are f*ckin’ done professionally.
T4 is flawed but still well worth seeing. Great action and a star making turn by Sam Worthington. If your a fan of the franchise GO see it.
The Arnold CGI cameo is a BLAST!
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It’s a little unfair to state Salvation is a flop, based off these figures alone (and yes, it leaves off the 13 mil it made on Thursday). Also, Night at the Museum’s going to attract a completely different demographic entirely. I also don’t get the entire PG-13 criticism when The Dark Knight was massively successful and one of the bleakest films that ever brandished the rating (and wasn’t T3 PG-13 as well?).
Besides, even if Salvation doesn’t cover its costs domestically, the overseas viewings will most likely make up for it.
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If they make another Terminator (and I hope they do), they may want to learn from Fast & Furious and open it in April when competition is less fierce.
Also, calling yourself McG is cute when you’re doing music videos, but you’re in the big leagues now. Time to go by your real name.
If they make another Terminator (and I hope they do), they may want to learn from Fast & Furious and open it in April when competition is less fierce.
Also, calling yourself McG is cute when you’re doing music videos, but you’re in the big leagues now. Time to go by your real name.
I am sick of remakes an sequels.
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I saw Terminator Salvation on Friday night. I didn’t go in with high expectations, this isn’t exactly high brow stuff, but it was good. We all enjoyed the movie. We also saw Night at the Museum last night, it was really funny. Total family movie.
Terminator came out a day earlier and let’s face it, no matter how good your movie is, it usually starts to do less by the next weekend, Star Trek hit first spot, but fell the following weekend when the next major movie was released….and Terminator being released early pretty much took the first crowds it was going to take for that first weekend, people who might have all gone on Friday if it was to be released then probably went on Thursday because they could. So really, it’s total is higher, and the logic says if Night at the Museum was released the same way, it would have a dip too, because everyone who might have been able to see it sooner would have. It’s sort of how it goes with movies today. It’s rare for any movie to do well after the first drop at the box office these days– with Netflix and all that, so many people wait for the big movies, and the big box office usually happens during first release.
Terminator is no different.
Wolverine was 10x better than T4.
T4 deserves what it got. Nothing near the 200 million budget.
Wolverine on the other hand is MAKING a profit because it was good. If it wasn’t we’d be looking at T4 numbers. Even with the leak Wolverine will top at about 180 million – I’d also add another 20 million to make up for the leak. (Even though I’d say that the leak coat Wolverine about 40 million).
Nuff said.