The weekend’s other big release, the prehistoric buddy comedy Year One, landed in fourth place with $20.2 million — an okay debut for the $60 million movie. However, all indicators point to a quick descent for the Jack Black/Michael Cera flick. Year One dropped 24 percent from Friday to Saturday (never a reassuring sign), and the movie received an unimpressive “B-” rating from CinemaScore. Year One is all but certain to join Land of the Lost as another box-office disappointment for high-concept comedies.
On the other hand, The Hangover (No. 2 with $26.9 million) and Up (No. 3 with $21.3 million) continued to show off their box-office stamina, dropping only 18 percent and 31 percent, respectively, from the prior weekend. Up now stands at $224 million, and may levitate past Star Trek (currently at $239 million) to become the year’s highest-grossing film.
Finishing off the top five was The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, which fell an alarming 52 percent for an $11.3 million weekend stash. Also opening this weekend was Woody Allen’s Whatever Works, starring Larry David. The New York-based comedy laughed up $281,000 from just nine theaters for a weekend-leading $31,000 gross per theater. The film will expand to more than 300 theaters on July 3.
Overall, the box office was up 3 percent compared to last year’s Father’s Day weekend, when Get Smart debuted to a surprisingly sharp $38.7 million. Hope you all are having a splendid Father’s Day! I know I will — I’m taking my pop to see Up.
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Box Office Preview: Will ‘The Hangover’ hold off ‘Pelham 1 2 3′?
Box Office Report UPDATE: Final numbers give ‘The Hangover’ No. 1 spot over ‘Up’
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Loved The Proposal. It was surprisingly funny!
Good for Sandra! I’ve become more of a fan of hers, partly just due to longevity with a genre, even getting better it seems. Good chem’y w/Ryan as well, he’s younger too so it’s kind-of a reversal – she’s the Hugh Grant character in this one! This shows she can change it up a bit and make it work – AND fun! With Julia R, Reese W bailing on comedy roots, we need her! Sandra, Betty White, and Diane Keaton YOU ROCK!
I liked the movie, and Sandra Bullock is one of my faves. I love her movies. While you were Sleeping. Speed. Girl has a long winning track record.
Loved The Proposal. Sandra B. was beautiful and a hoot. Ryan R. was just as funny. Betty White, of course, was a screech. The whole movie was wonderful. Glad it was #1. I may see it again!
I think it’s great when a decent chick flick out performs all the male star power in bigger budgeted movies. Hollywood should take note: Women will go see movies about women. Large untapped market here people.
I’d been waiting for a chick flick with a smart heroine. I skipped bride wars and he’s not that into you etc because they seemed so dumb. This one I saw and enjoyed.
J. is right. There’s a large female audience. Me and my female friends go to the movies that are “fam” friendly and we like comedies. I would like to see some actress (Bullock? Ashley Judd?) bring back the Women flicks like Bette Davis & Joan Crawford used to make.
I miss the Red River Rock and Last Seduction heroines.
i love Sandra Bullock. always have, always will. 28 Days is one of my favorites.
I was dragged to see this garbage (after making my girlfriend see Pelham 123). Seriously, The Proposal followed every cliche in the book, step by step! From the trailer I knew exactly how this movie would play out and, guess what?, I WAS RIGHT! By supporting crap like this people are playing into the Hollywood machine and making it less likely for studios to take a chance on more original fare. Everybody who liked this movie must be huge fans of Twilight!
Went to see The Proposal. Loved the movie. Loved everyone in it, but Betty white steals the movie. she’s hysterical. This movie is a must see.
Dude, Matt, my wife took me to see this, and while I wasn’t clamoring to see it (I too, knew exactly where it was going), I recognized that there aren’t that many decent movies for women out there. The Proposal isn’t going to win an originality awards; that isn’t the point of this movie. What women want is to watch men and women in romantic, comedic situations. Originality, plausibility would be great; but what women really want are movies geared towards them. Twilight has no appeal to me; but I’m not the target audience. Let women have their movies–even if men don’t think they’re very creative.
I went to see “The Proposal” Loved the movie, loved everyone in it, but Betty White steals the movie. She’s hysterical. A must see for everyone!!.
Up – looking forward to it being the number 1 movie of the summer (wonder if Potter or Transformers will fare better?).
I think Sandra Bullock is one of the most likable people in movies and always will be. I’ve loved her as long as she’s been around. I always wished she do some more daring work to balance the romantic comedies though. I think she could surprise us more than we realize.
This is a ROCKIN’ clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIqXNXjJnqs&feature=related