After earning $3.35 million from its midnight screenings, Green Lantern brought in an estimated $21.6 million from 3,816 venues – 70% of which were 3D equipped. The third comic book property to hit the screen since Memorial Day, the Lantern seems headed for a weekend in the $60 million range: about where mid-week tracking placed it. That would put the DC Comics title just under Thor’s $65.7 million May debut and just over the $55.1 million launch of X-Men: First Class. Considering that both of those films had Rotten Tomato scores significantly higher than the current 23% rating for Lantern, I’m thinking that Warner Brothers has, so far, dodged a shiny, green bullet. Of course, word of mouth is going to be a factor with GL and, with international estimates unavailable, it is hard to draw an accurate picture of the film’s prospects. The weekend’s second new release, Fox’s Mr. Popper’s Penguins, managed a second place finish on Friday and will probably be lucky to get to $20 million by Sunday. We’ll have full details and analysis tomorrow.
| Title | Friday | Total | |
| 1 | Green Lantern | $21,605,000 | $21.6 |
| 2 | Mr. Popper’s Penguins | $6,400,000 | $6.4 |
| 3 | Super 8 | $6,005,000 | $57.5 |
| 4 | X-Men: First Class | $3,350,000 | $111.7 |
| 5 | The Hangover Part II | $3,180,000 | $226.2 |
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