Weekend Box-Office: June 10-12, 2011

Super
8 opens in first place…

Much like last weekend’s #1
movie, X-MEN: FIRST CLASS, this week’s #1 movie SUPER 8 also
enjoyed a ton of very positive reviews from both Rotten
Tomatoes and Movie
Fan Central reviews, yet it opened with the smallest #1 gross
of any summer movie so far this year. That certainly has something
to do with the fact that the movie didn’t have any "name
actors" in it (it seemed to be relying solely on the names of
JJ Abrams and Steven Spielberg from a marketing point of view),
but considering that the film only cost $50M to make, I’m sure the
studio is more than happy with the $37M opening so far.

The only other new release of
the weekend was for a kid’s movie called JUDY MOODY AND THE NOT
BUMMER SUMMER, which surprisingly didn’t open all that well in 7th
place with only $6M. Last weekend’s #1 movie, X-MEN: FIRST CLASS,
lost around 55% of its audience from last weekend, which isn’t
horrible, but not too promising either. The film has grossed $99M
in the first 10 days of release. THE HANGOVER and KUNG FU PANDA
sequels continue going strong as well, reaching $216M and $127M
respectively in their third week of release. In fact, here’s the
list of top 5 movies of 2011 so far:

1. THE HANGOVER, PART
II: $217M
2. PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 4: $208M
3. FAST FIVE: $205M
4. THOR: $174M
5. RIO: $138M 

In the worldwide marketplace,
the charts aren’t even close with PIRATES 4 leading the way with $823M
(people loves them Johnny Depp!), followed by FAST FIVE with $578M
and RIO at $462M. The film with the smallest drop from
weekend-to-weekend was BRIDESMAIDS once again (-15%), while it
continued to hover around in 5th/6th place and a total closing in
on the $125M mark (remember that the film only cost $30M to make).
Woody Allen’s latest, MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, also seems to be buoying
the filmmaker to his biggest box-office gross since…forever, as
the film continues to expand the number of theaters in which it’s
released, while at the same time, expanding its overall revenues.
It’s only at $14M so far, but that’s massive for an Allen
flick.

The two films to get booted
from the top 10 this week included RIO ($138M) and JUMPING THE
BROOM ($37M). Next weekend sees the release of two major summer
movies, the first of which is the 3rd big "superhero
movie" of the summer in GREEN
LANTERN starring Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively (even
though you wouldn’t know about the latter from the film’s many
trailers and TV spots), as well as Jim Carrey taking money over
substance this time around, with something called MR.
POPPER’S PENGUINS featuring the goofy funnyman living
with…well, penguins. Yeah…that’s pretty much it, folks. So
what’s your take on GREEN LANTERN, from what you’ve seen so far? VOTE
HERE!!!