After a surprise first-place finish last weekend, Vegas comedy The Hangover is in the lead again with a commanding $10.4 million Friday gross. That was plenty to trump the week’s biggest new release, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, which came in third with just $8.3 million. The John Travolta-Denzel Washington thriller lost the second-place spot to Disney/Pixar’s Up, still flying high in its third weekend. But the weekend’s real loser looks to be Eddie Murphy’s Imagine That, which limped into sixth place with a weak $1.8 million from more than 3,000 screens. Be sure to check back tomorrow for the final weekend grosses.
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Good news — because HANGOVER and UP are better movies than PELHAM.
Read my review of all 3 movies — and 20 more out now — here:
http://movies-tv-entertainment.blogspot.com/
(look for the alpha list on the blog’s home page)
I wonder how Star Trek will do this week. It’s really been hanging around and doing good.
(Of course in a way I wish it wouldn’t, so it would hurry up and come out on Blueray. lol)
it seems to me that all the quality films this year (up, star trek, hangover etc.) are performing well, while the stupid, worthless movies (imagine that, watchmen, land of the lost etc.) are not making the cash cut. way to go, audiences! we’re demanding smarter movies for once!
‘Hangover’ deserves all the money it’s making. It is probably the funniest movie of the year. Up was also stellar, so it’s good that people are watching the good films. Land of the Lost was a waste of time.
10 of those dollars were mine, it was fun playing hooky from work yesterday. Good movie too, almost worth the price of admission to watch Heather Graham breastfeeding.
I agree brandon. For once, moviegoers are actually rewarding great films with repeat business (Up, Trek, Hangover), and are abandoning the mediocre ones. Dare I say it that moviegoers have gotten, oh, smarter as to spending their moviegoing dollars?
Whoa. This is gonna be another photo-finish weekend. Hangover had a 3million or so lead over UP last friday, and hung on to win by 800k. Now, it only has a 1.5 mil lead as UP reportedly made 8.8mil yesterday. Family films like UP make most of their money on SAT and SUN matinees so it’ll really be close. Nevertheless, I’m happy for both Hangover and UP doing so well, and for moviegoers generously rewarding magnificent films-so far-this summer.
It’s a sad comment that someone actually considers ‘The Hangover’ to be a ’smart movie.’ Can you say unoriginal, derivative, and riddled with plot holes?
Completely agree Dan. And you know what’s sadder is that it’s as bad as that Wedding Crashers movie the critics went all “it’s the sleeper hit of the year” over. But give the critics credit. Every now and then they manage to pull the wool our eyes and make us think something is more than it actually is. Garbage!!!
star trek will be on bluray the by the time summer is over to cash in as quickly as possible, I’m also looking forward to getting Wolverine.
I’m surprised “The Taking Of Pelham 123″ even did that well. Hasn’t Denzel Washington done this movie like 5 times already?
Great to see it’s still going strong!
http://tvdonewright.com/2009/06/14/tv-tonight-sunday-june-14th-2009/
Can we put a fork in Eddie Murphy already, he’s clearly done.
I saw an Eddie Murphy “Biography” on Thursday night and remembered what a great comedian this guy was. He was probably one of the greatest SNL players ever and went on to do two classics in 48 Hours and Trading Places. Then, after some hits and lot of misses, he gets an Oscar nod for “Dreamgirls”. How does he follow it up? With “Norbit” and “Imagine That”, two horrible movies that basically have killed what was remaining of his career. I like to remember Eddie for Trading Places, Coming To America, Bowfinger and even Harlem Nights, which is very underrated.
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