Box Office Report - April 9-11 (for now?)
Sun, April 11, 2010 
Courtesy of Box Office Mojo:
1. Date Night - $27.1 million
2. Clash of the Titans - $26.875 million
3. How to Train Your Dragon - $25.3 million
4. Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too? - $11 million
5. The Last Song - $10 million
6. Alice in Wonderland - $5.6 million
7. Hot Tub Time Machine - $5.4 million
8. The Bounty Hunter - $4.3 million
9. Diary of a Wimpy Kid - $4.1 million
10. Letters to God - $1.2 million
The final weekend box office is turning into a clash of the studios as both Warner Bros and 20th Century Fox are in dispute on whether or not Date Night really did trump Clash of the Titans, but since final numbers will not be in until tomorrow, this is what's being reported...and we're sticking to it (for now).
Either way, it turned out to be a solid weekend for Steve Carell and Tina Fey, whose $55 million comedy Date Night opened with at least $27 million, which is a career opening weekend high for Fey, but not so much for Carell - Get Smart opened in 2008 with $38 million. Even if it does drop to second place when the actuals come in tomorrow, Fox does seem happy with the results.
Not surprisingly, Clash of the Titans took a 56% drop in its second weekend, bringing its domestic total to $110 million. That's a steep drop, however, it's not nearly as bad at the 60% or more drop some insiders were projecting for this weekend. Its total worldwide box office is now $229 million.
Regardless of who winds up at the #1 spot this weekend, it's looking like the real box office champ is Dreamworks' How to Train Your Dragon, which declined a mere 13%, thanks to what appears to be spectacular word-of-mouth (including mine, I've seen this film twice and I can't say enough good things about it) and making its lackluster opening weekend a distant memory. Its box office total is now $134 million and could be headed for a $200 million total domestically.
Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too? took an even bigger tumble than Clash this weekend, a 62% drop with $11 million. But with a budget of roughly $20 million and a total domestic gross of $48 million in just one week...that drop really doesn't even matter. It's another hit for Tyler Perry.
Miley Cyrus' drama The Last Song also managed to hang in there this weekend, dropping only 37% and staying in the top 5 with $10 million, bringing its domestic total to $42 million. Looks like Miley managed to survive some pretty scathing reviews and wind up with a decent hit film after all.
Alice in Wonderland also managed to have another solid weekend, coming in at #5 with $5.6 million. Its domestic total now stands at $319 million, and its worldwide total stands at a staggering $780 million.
The other new release of the weekend was Vivendi Entertainment's Christian-themed Letters to God. Opening in just 897 theaters, the film managed to make a respectable $1.2 million and just make its way into the #10 spot.
We'll be checking when the weekend actuals come in to see if we need to change the picture at the top of the page. Hell, if they can't figure it out by then we may just change it to a How to Train Your Dragon shot, since we know that one is doing well.
Reader Comments (1)
I really hope COTT falls even harder come next weekend, WB needs to change this everything in 3D bullshit.
Also my predictions for this weekends boxoffice were quite close, atleast to the already released estimates, I guess we'll see come tommorow when the actuals are released.
heres a link to my predictions if you didn't already check that out:
http://thinkmcflythink.squarespace.com/movie-news/2010/4/8/boxoffice-predictions-april-9-11-2010.html