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BOX OFFICE - USA - Weekend 26-28 June 2009

2009-06-29 17:44:22

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Below are the top 12 weekend final numbers from the North American box office:

1. Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen - $108,966,307
2. The Proposal - $18,578,541
3. The Hangover - $17,022,166
4. Up - $13,061,737
5. My Sister's Keeper - $12,442,212
6. Year One - $6,022,444
7. The Taking Of Pelham 1 2 3 - $5,451,107
8. Star Trek - $3,711,968
9. Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian - $3,643,522
10. Away We Go - $1,709,313
11. Land Of The Lost - $1,195,685
12. Angels & Demons - $1,091,953

Overall, the Box Office was up 33.4% on last weekend's total gross.

We are officially half way through the year and it has taken that long for the box office to produce its first official blockbuster in the name of TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN. The film absolutely dominated cineplexes since opening on Wednesday to $60M. The film earned a massive $108.9M over the weekend and has earned $200M since opening, or in a very quick five days. The film came within a whisker of beating previous 5-day record holder THE DARK KNIGHT, and it beat a lot of industry estimates which placed it below the 5-day $200M haul. This mammoth opening is made even more extraordinary by the fact that it has not been well received at all, with claims of computer generated overkill, noise, unnecessary racist and sexist jokes and in general bad filmmaking by director Michael Bay. None of this word-of-mouth has affected the film's box office thus far but next weekend will be a clear indicator as to the progress of the film moving forward.

The next four films in the Top 12 were not obliterated by the performance of the new Transformers film, each earning over $12M each. Last weekend's number one winner THE PROPOSAL earned $18.5M this weekend losing only 45% of its audience. The Sandra Bullock/Ryan Reynolds rom-com has earned $69M against a production budget of $40M. THE HANGOVER still continues to do great business, losing only 36% of its audience from last weekend to earn $17M. The film has earned an incredibly strong $183M domestically. Disney/Pixar's UP continues to do well, adding another $13M to take its total haul to $250M. Opening in fifth is MY SISTER'S KEEPER, the Cameron Diaz/Alec Baldwin weepy drama which pulled in $12.2M, a strong start for a film competing against much bigger films.

YEAR ONE and THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1 2 3 are the tragic cases at the box office at the moment, with the former crashing and burning in its second weekend of release with $6M and the latter continuing to plummet, taking in $5.4M over the weekend.

STAR TREK is still holding strongly, earning $3.7M over the weekend and dropping only 36% on last weekend. The sci-fi adventure managed to pull ahead of NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: BATTLE OF THE SMITHSONIAN which earned $3.6M. Both films have turned a profit, although STAR TREK is the much big winner out of the two.

Moving in to tenth spot is Sam Mendes indie flick AWAY WE GO which managed an impressive $1.7M despite only playing in 495 theatres across North America. The film has earned $4M against a production budget of $17M.

The US Box Office took in a total of $192,896,955 for the whole of the weekend 26-28 June 2009.

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