It’s official: Pixar scores another hit. Up, the studio’s 10th animated feature, grossed an impressive $21.4 million on its first day in theaters. Buoyed by positive reviews — and pricier 3-D tickets — the result is Pixar’s second-highest opening day gross ever, exceeded only by the $23.2 million Wall-E earned last year. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian took in an estimated $7.5 million for a second place Friday finish. The other new film of the weekend, Sam Raimi’s well-reviewed horror flick Drag Me to Hell, grossed an estimated $6.4 million, landing it in third pace. The film that seems likely to be in the most trouble is Terminator Salvation, which fell an estimated 66% compared to last Friday’s tally. The film’s total gross after nine days stands at an estimated $79.6 million, more than $10 million less than Terminator 3’s gross after the same number of days in the theater. Star Trek rounded out the top five with an additional $3.6 million, crossing the $200 million mark in only 23 days. Check back here on Sunday for the complete weekend figures in EW’s Box Office Report.
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Up: Is it Pixar’s best?
Box Office Preview: How high will Up go?
Sam Raimi: My 12 Hell-ish films
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Ouch for “Night at the Museum 2!” That’s not a very strong start off for a second weekend.
Last weekend’s holiday releases will ultimately fizzle out quicker than anticipated by most box office analysts. Night at the Museum 2 is looking as if it will struggle to beat Paul Blart: Mall Cop’s box office. And Terminator Salvation will limp over the 100 million domestic box office line but that’s about it. What happened to all the box office momentum Hollywood had going? Suddenly, only one summer movie has crossed the 200 million dollar mark- Star Trek. And it’s the only May release still rolling full speed ahead.
Burn Terminator Burn!
-TL
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ouch T4!
It’s great to see “Up” doing good. Pixar works so hard on their films, and they’re so good. Never disappoints.
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I’m not terribly surprised by Terminator’s performance. I’ve never been a big Terminator fan – I enjoy the films but haven’t been extremely devoted and I thought it was decent. Diehard fans aren’t enjoying it. That’s the problem. NATM I’ll watch on DVD. Star Trek was epic – not at all surprised about its success after seeing it. Up, Transformers, and Harry Potter are going to be the other three that I believe have the best chance of surpassing the 200 million mark.
T4 is the biggest flop of the year
I have to commend moviegoers nationwide.After a month of the summer moviegoing season, they so far rewarded a great film (Trek) with box office grosses that is deserved, and has pretty much abandoned the mediocre films (T4, wolverine, etc..). UP is generating stellar word of mouth much like Trek,and I suspect UP to similarly stay strong in the coming weeks. Word of mouth has been the key factor so far this early in the summer.
Trek, Up, and Drag me to Hell have been the only hits in my book so far.
I have to commend moviegoers nationwide.After a month of the summer moviegoing season, they so far rewarded a great film (Trek) with box office grosses that is deserved, and has pretty much abandoned the mediocre films (T4, wolverine, etc..). UP is generating stellar word of mouth much like Trek,and I suspect UP to similarly stay strong in the coming weeks. Word of mouth has been the key factor so far this early in the summer.
Trek, Up, and Drag me to Hell have been the only hits in my book so far.
Up deserves every penny it rakes in, easily the best movie of the year so far!
Go see Drag Me to Hell!!! It is frakking awesome and is a true return to form for Raimi. Easily the best movie going experience I have had in a long while. And UP is easily one of Pixars best. Great weekend for new releases, too bad it cant be like this all the time.
Go Up!!! Go Pixar!! Boooo Dreamworks!! hehe
Pixar films are golden classics
Dreamworks films are just pop trash!!!
bwahahahaha!!!
I actually think Wolverine would have crossed the 200 million dollar mark if it wasn’t for the leak.
Transformers and Harry Potter will pick up the slack….
I actually think Wolverine would have crossed the 200 million dollar mark if it wasn’t for the fact that is was crap.
Correction *that it was*
Sorry, my writing is awful… wait, maybe I can write the next Wolverine script.
I thought it was decent.?? http://www.multiweb.cz/nik511/bid22.htm