'Titans' rules weekend box office: $61.4M
4/05/2010 01:03:00 PM
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On a box-office weekend of far-ranging missions (and ticket prices), the 3D Clash of the Titans scooped up the most money, an estimated $61.4 million, while Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married, Too? ruled as the top-grosser among 2D-only films, with a huge $30.2 million.
The Last Song, Miley Cyrus' first major venture without Hannah Montana, sounded about right: a fourth-place debut, a $16.2 million Friday-Sunday.
Clash of the Titans is the third straight 3D movie to top the weekend box office. In fact, in 14 weekends so far this year, a 3D movie has been on top 10 times. The trend is a matter of appeal?and math. 3D ticket prices are simply higher. As your wallet could have told you.
Titans actually played in slightly more 2D theaters than 3D ones, but it grossed slighlty more at 3D venues than 2D ones, box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations said.
Titans' debut was big, but not titanic. 300, from the same studio, and sporting the same kind of man-skirts, but without the help of 3D ticket prices, bowed with more than $70 million three years ago.
Why Did I Get Married, Too? is Perry's second-biggest opener, and his biggest opener without the help of Madea.
Since opening Wednesday, The Last Song has grossed $25.6 million. All told, that's nowhere near Dear John, to name another Nicholas Sparks-spawned romantic drama, but it's already bigger than Robert Pattinson's Remember Me, to name another star U-turn. Assessed Exhibitor Relations' Jeff Bock in an email: "I'd say that Miley Cyrus' debut?sans her Disney doppelgänger?is right on target as her formidable tween audience follows her into teenage-dom."
In its second weekend, How to Train Your Dragon ($29.2 million; $92.3 million overall) held well, even as it lost 3D screens, and its No. 1 spot, to Clash of the Titans.
Despite its tepid start, Hot Tub Time Machine ($8 million; $27.8 million overall) hung in there with a better-than-average second weekend.
Matt Damon's $100 million or so Green Zone ($1.2 million) is out of the Top 10 after three weekends, and, whoops, only $33.1 million. (Worldwide, the film has grossed a still-not-good $61.2 million, per Box Office Mojo.)
In its fifth weekend, Johnny Depp's Alice in Wonderland ($8.3 million) broke the $300 million mark.
Here's a complete rundown of the weekend's top-grossing films Friday-Sunday, per estimates compiled by Exhibitor Relations:
1. Clash of the Titans, $61.4 million
2. Why Did I Get Married, Too, $30.2 million
3. How to Train Your Dragon, $29.2 million
4. The Last Song, $16.2 million
5. Alice in Wonderland, $8.3 million
6. Hot Tub Time Machine, $8 million
7. The Bounty Hunter, $6.2 million
8. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, $5.5 million
9. She's Out of My League, $1.5 million
10. Shutter Island, $1.46 million
The Last Song, Miley Cyrus' first major venture without Hannah Montana, sounded about right: a fourth-place debut, a $16.2 million Friday-Sunday.
Clash of the Titans is the third straight 3D movie to top the weekend box office. In fact, in 14 weekends so far this year, a 3D movie has been on top 10 times. The trend is a matter of appeal?and math. 3D ticket prices are simply higher. As your wallet could have told you.
Titans actually played in slightly more 2D theaters than 3D ones, but it grossed slighlty more at 3D venues than 2D ones, box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations said.
Titans' debut was big, but not titanic. 300, from the same studio, and sporting the same kind of man-skirts, but without the help of 3D ticket prices, bowed with more than $70 million three years ago.
Why Did I Get Married, Too? is Perry's second-biggest opener, and his biggest opener without the help of Madea.
Since opening Wednesday, The Last Song has grossed $25.6 million. All told, that's nowhere near Dear John, to name another Nicholas Sparks-spawned romantic drama, but it's already bigger than Robert Pattinson's Remember Me, to name another star U-turn. Assessed Exhibitor Relations' Jeff Bock in an email: "I'd say that Miley Cyrus' debut?sans her Disney doppelgänger?is right on target as her formidable tween audience follows her into teenage-dom."
In its second weekend, How to Train Your Dragon ($29.2 million; $92.3 million overall) held well, even as it lost 3D screens, and its No. 1 spot, to Clash of the Titans.
Despite its tepid start, Hot Tub Time Machine ($8 million; $27.8 million overall) hung in there with a better-than-average second weekend.
Matt Damon's $100 million or so Green Zone ($1.2 million) is out of the Top 10 after three weekends, and, whoops, only $33.1 million. (Worldwide, the film has grossed a still-not-good $61.2 million, per Box Office Mojo.)
In its fifth weekend, Johnny Depp's Alice in Wonderland ($8.3 million) broke the $300 million mark.
Here's a complete rundown of the weekend's top-grossing films Friday-Sunday, per estimates compiled by Exhibitor Relations:
1. Clash of the Titans, $61.4 million
2. Why Did I Get Married, Too, $30.2 million
3. How to Train Your Dragon, $29.2 million
4. The Last Song, $16.2 million
5. Alice in Wonderland, $8.3 million
6. Hot Tub Time Machine, $8 million
7. The Bounty Hunter, $6.2 million
8. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, $5.5 million
9. She's Out of My League, $1.5 million
10. Shutter Island, $1.46 million
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