The Hangover tossed back an estimated $16.5 million in box office receipts on Friday, according to Box Office Mojo, positioning the R-rated worst-night-in-Vegas-ever comedy to win as much $50 million for the weekend and the title of the summer’s first official sleeper hit. Disney/Pixar’s Up fared well too, earning an expected $13.5 million for second place. The Will Ferrell comedy Land of the Lost, based on the wildly popular 1970s kids TV show, landed at third place with $7.2 million. The weekend’s other new wide release, My Life in Ruins, starring My Big Fat Greek Wedding’s Nia Vardalos, bagged just $1.1 million for ninth place. Friday’s figures are below, and check back here on Sunday for the complete weekend figures in EW’s Box Office Report.
1. The Hangover – $16,535,000
2. Up – $13,500,000
3. Land of the Lost – $7,218,000
4. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian – $4,550,000
5. Drag Me to Hell – $2,573,000
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Better than expected. Well deserved. It is a good movie.
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good numbers for Hangover and Up. Looks like Land of the Lost is the first bomb of the summer with those awful numbers and a 100mil budget.
Land of the Lost would be the 2nd flop. Terminator:Salvation 200m production and earned to date 98m.
“Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian” might not recoup it’s budget here in the United States at this rate.
there hasnt really been a flop yet. every movie earns their budget on dvd. neither of them are hits either, but definitely not flops. speed racer was a flop last year
Land of the Lost will prove to be the bigger bomb in the end than Terminator:Salvation. At least Terminator:Salvation will make a rather significant amount of money overseas, which Land of the Lost won’t. As far as DVD revenue, neither will be humongous sellers wherein it will cover the losses.
Not surprised! The Hangover deserves it! Great comedy!
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Really too bad for Ferrell. He’s a great actor/comedian, but shouldn’t be in kids movies.
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First Terminator Salvation and now Land of The Lost and My Life In Ruins arrive just a couple of weeks later. We could be on a record pace for summer box office flops.
for a magazine that is so in touch with hollywood, how can your box office reporting be so dismal? don’t you guys look at tracking? why are your forecasts so bad? and don’t you know anything about weekend multiples? a film that opens to $16.5 on friday will never make $50. New releases have a fri-weekend multiple of around 2.7. So a $16.5 translates to a $45M opening. Come on EW, get it together.
How does a $50 million opening make a film a sleeper hit? Sleeper hits are films that grow in popularity, and make money over a long period of time. Like There’s Something About Mary or My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Sleeper hits don’t make this sort of money so quickly. Blockbusters do. Surprise hits do.
Agree with Tim. “The Hangover” is not a sleeper hit. I don’t even know why “experts” predicted this to be second or third for the box office weekend. Everyone, and I mean just about everyone, I know was talking about this movie. All of the Friday evening showings in the theater I normally go to were sold out. And no, “Land of the Lost” was not sold out. Which brings me to this point – Will Ferrell is overrated. This is by far his worst flop and, like the super hyped “Semi-Pro”, this movie was overhyped which emphasizes his failure even more. I wonder what Matt Lauer is going to say tomorrow?