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Weekend Box Office – DISTRICT 9 Easily Takes Number One with $37 Million

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: August 16th, 2009 at 10:26 am

It’s all good news for director Neill Blomkamp’s once-mysterious sci-fi movie “District 9″.  The film, produced by Peter Jackson, rounded out its first three days with a remarkable $37 million from 3,049 dates.  While that total certainly isn’t anywhere near the top weekends of the summer, when the film’s budget of $30 million is weighed along with the fact that most Americans had never heard of either Blomkamp or “District 9″ a couple of weeks ago, the term ‘remarkable’ may even be an understatement.

	Title	Weekend	Total
1	District 9	$37,000,000	$37,000,000
2	GI Joe	$22,500,000	$98,800,000
3	Time Traveler’s Wife	$19,205,000	$19,205,000
4	Julie & Julia	$12,400,000	$43,684,000
5	G-Force	$6,908,000	$99,049,000
6	The Goods	$5,300,000	$5,300,000
7	Harry Potter 6	$5,155,000	$283,893,000
8	The Ugly Truth	$4,500,000	$77,502,000
9	Ponyo	$3,500,000	$3,500,000
10	(500) Days of Summer	$3,025,000	$17,955,000

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