"May 9-11, 2008 Movie Box Office"
"Iron Man" #1 - Second Week In A Row
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For the complete weekend movie box office report - just look below. To watch the corresponding movie trailer or check out the corresponding movie poster, click on any link.
"Iron Man" - the best reviewed movie, thus far, of 2008, is also the highest grossing movie of 2008 - as of May 11, 2008. (That will change - as "Indiana Jones 4" will undoubtedly take the #1 spot at the movie box office for the year 2008.) In its second weekend in movie theaters, "Iron Man" grabbed $50 million, half of last weekend's $100 million take.
As for the remainder of this weekend's movie box office report? Pretty dismal, especially for The Wachowski Brothers first non-"Matrix" movie since 1996's "Bound," - that lesbo thriller starring Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly. The Wachowski Brothers' "Speed Racer" came in at #3, below the #2 and the little promoted, and low expectation (by 20th Century Fox standards), "What Happens In Vegas," that stars punker Ashton Kutcher, and saccharine sweet Cameron Diaz.
Below, the Top 25 Movies at the Box Office May 9-11, 2008
1 Iron Man - $50,500,000 - 4,111 Theaters - $12,284 Per Screen - Gross $177,134,000
2
What Happens In Vegas - 3,215 Theaters - $6,220 Per Screen - NEW $20,200,000
3
Speed Racer - 3,606 Theaters - $5,204 Per Screen - NEW $18,000,000*
4 Made of Honor - $7,600,000 - 2,734 Theaters - $2,779 Per Screen - Gross $26,275,000
5 Baby Mama - $5,766,000 - 2,627 Theaters - $2,194 Per Screen - Gross $40,377,000
6 Forgetting Sarah Marshall - $3,778,000 - 2,376 Theaters - $1,590 Per Screen - Gross $50,772,000
7 Harold and Kumar 2 - $3,155,000 - 2,264 Theaters - $1,393 Per Screen - Gross $30,716,000
8 The Forbidden Kingdom - $1,900,000 - 1,724 Theaters - $1,102 Per Screen - Gross $48,261,000
9 Nim's Island - $1,325,000 - 1,601 Theaters - $827 Per Screen - Gross $44,257,000
10 Redbelt - $1,140,000 - 1,379 Theaters - $826 Per Screen - Gross $1,237,000
11 Prom Night (2008) - $1,050,000 - 1,465 Theaters - $716 Per Screen - Gross $42,822,000
12 21 - $835,000 - 978 Theaters - $853 Per Screen - Gross $80,418,000
13 The Visitor - $764,000 - 217 Theaters - $3,520 Per Screen - Gross $2,510,000
14 Horton Hears a Who - $575,000 - 770 Theaters - $746 Per Screen - Gross $150,669,000
15 Then She Found Me - $489,000 - 153 Theaters - $3,196 Per Screen - Gross $912,000
16 88 Minutes - $485,000 - 625 Theaters - $776 Per Screen - Gross $16,411,000
17 Young@Heart - $355,000 - 145 Theaters - $2,448 Per Screen - Gross $1,411,000
18 Expelled - $302,000 - 402 Theaters - $751 Per Screen - Gross $7,208,000
19 Leatherheads - $212,000 - 424 Theaters - $500 Per Screen - Gross $30,703,000
20 The Counterfeiters - $165,000 - 130 Theaters - $1,269 Per Screen - Gross $4,679,000
NEW IN LIMITED RELEASE
The Fall - 9 Theaters - $8,911 Per Screen - NEW $80,200
Before the Rains - 8 Theaters - $6,537 Per Screen - NEW $52,300
Noise - 2 Theaters - $2,025 Per Screen - NEW $4,050
* Warner Bros, cooked their books, lying on Sunday, alleging "Speed Racer" was the #2 movie of the week, with just over $200,000 more than "What Happens In Vegas." As it turns out, after box office receipts were tallied officially, by third party sources, "Speed Racer" was not only the #3 movie of the weekend - a huge embarassment for WB, since the movie cost over $300 million to make and market - but took in just over $18 million; not nearly anywhere what they orginally claimed. Look for "Speed Racer" to drop faster than a hot potato from a baby's hand, next weekend, when "Narnia 2" hits movie theaters. "Speed Racer" will be lucky to take in a total of $50 million at the North American movie box office, when all is said and done.
More limited release results 5/13/08
