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New Images from THE AVENGERS [Updated With High Resolution]Weekend Box Office – THE HANGOVER PART II Brings Its Four Day Total to $118 Million
by Nicole Pedersen Posted:May 29th, 2011 at 9:09 am
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Here are the estimates for the top ten films this Memorial Day Weekend. Note that the weekend figure includes only the three days of a traditional box office weekend, even though both of the week’s major new releases (The Hangover Part II and Kung Fu Panda 2) debuted last Thursday. We’ll have a full analysis of the four/five day holiday tomorrow, but today I would just like to give a quick shout out to Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris which has made it into the top ten on the strength of just 58 venues. It is the first time I’ve personally seen an Allen film in the weekend top ten since… ever
| Title | Weekend | Total | |
| 1 | Hangover Part II | $86,480,000 | $118 |
| 2 | Kung Fu Panda 2 | $48,000,000 | $53.8 |
| 3 | Pirates of the Caribbean 4 | $39,320,000 | $152.9 |
| 4 | Bridesmaids | $16,370,000 | $84.9 |
| 5 | Thor | $9,365,000 | $159.7 |
| 6 | Fast Five | $6,698,000 | $196 |
| 7 | Midnight in Paris | $1,919,000 | $2.8 |
| 8 | Jumping the Broom | $1,900,000 | $34.1 |
| 9 | Something Borrowed | $1,845,000 | $34.7 |
| 10 | Rio | $1,780,000 | $134.8 |
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congrats to The Hangover part 2. haven’t seen the movie, but will on bluray someday.. and i haven’t read any reviews so i won’t have a preconceived idea if it will suck or not.
YAY for Woody!.. i have heard that there was a time(probably in the 70s) that a Woody Allen film was an event.. sad that when i became aware of him, that event was far gone.
While I’m not surprised, I am dismayed that so many people would go see such lazy retreads, such old food made lukewarm in a microwave.
Everyone I know who did go see it have said exactly what the critics said. They say it as if they’re surprised that this sequel wasn’t as good or fresh as the first.
Maybe people just want to get out to have a nice time and laugh….maybe you should do the same. Get a life, then Kill Yourself!!!
I agree with come on son!!! Get a life Michael. Some people actually go to the movies to be entertained. And to laugh. And besides, if The Hangover 2 was such a lazy retread, if it’s so easy, you should do it too. Wouldn’t you like to make a movie that breaks box office records. Go ahead. Do it. It’s so easy.
To Haha,
Having an opinion constitutes not having a life? Oh gee, you two should slap that label on yourselves then, as for every other person on this planet.
Food for thought, there’s lowest common denominator entertainment (aka mindless), and properly mind-stimulating entertainment. So, if you spend $10 to fulfill your need for entertainment via mediocrity, you really aren’t one to judge Michael’s opinion.
Go ahead, keep feeding the money-eating movie industry upchucking shallow, recyclable films because they know the majority, such as you, demand nothing more but this trash they call entertainment. You probably don’t know this, but there was a time where quality was emphasized over quantity.
don’t be arrogant
I’m curious, when was the time that “quality was emphasized over quantity” ? As far as I can tell such a thing never existed, in the silent film era movies were made on shoe-string budgets and everyone was paid based on how many pictures they could crap out. Then came the noir films of the 40s, which were complete B-movies made on almost nothing, but miraculously attracted large audiences because of their entertaining value. Then sci-fi movies, most of which were mere copycats of some idea that took off (God knows how). After that we went to historical films, then social-awareness films, then kung-fu films, then sci-fi, then action films, and on and on.
The vast majority of each of these staples was pure and utter crap. It has always, and will always be the minority of movies that are pure genius, and simultaneously make a lot of money! The reasons for this should be obvious in that 1) Major studios (and for that fact smaller ones) aren’t going to bet on a new idea w/ out reason, they will go with a rehash of an old idea that has been successful because the probability of them making money is higher. 2) If they do go for a fresh idea it is either because the studio head has a vision for that particular movie, a promising/prominent director is passionate about it (IE: Christopher Nolan, James Cameron, Martin Scorsese, etc), or because the over-head is low. For this reason we see truly great films come about equally (in proportion to the % of films released) come out of both the Independent industry as we do Hollywood or Bollywood. To top it off, nobody knows if the movie is going to be made well or not; a director can screw up on any one thing and ruin the film, whether it be casting, the script, his D.O.P., budget, or just his own arrogance. Very few directors have managed to only create quality films, and arguably none have had entire careers of ground-breaking films.
The Hangover was an amazing comedy, it managed to border the line of being inappropriate and still fun and applicable to both men and women. The Hangover II, as most sequels do, is just a return to the seat for the director and cast to make an even bigger version of the first one, put in the jokes they didn’t get to do on the first one and collect the wages that they fully deserve after the astonishing effect of the first film.
People who loved the first one will probably be fully entertained by the second one, if you love the characters you should love them in a sequel. Seeing them in the same light twice isn’t so bad, its the third time that usually kills it (ie: Pirates 3, and then 4… and now 5…)
Every once in a while someone comes along and manages to make a trilogy worth watching, or at least a sequel (Cameron is a great example of this).
Movies are like books. Some are meant to enlighten, some are meant to entertain, and some are just meant to make a buck. The only problem I have with this concept, is when the creator or its fans try to pass it off as something it is not. A great example of this is Twitard fans saying Stephanie Meyer is the greatest writer of all time. To that I insist on taking a dump on a 15 year old girls face.
Or morons who say Avatar has the most original storyline of all time. To that I ask them to watch any number of films about white man joining a foreign culture. The Heroes Journey is such a derivative concept that it was actually noted as being used as the same exact form for all major religious figures in history. It was painfully derivative, yet fully entertaining and the visual effects were stunning (to this day the only 3D movie I’ve seen that I was actually happy with the 3D). Avatar was purely entertaining, wrapped in a carbon-copy storyline of Pocahontas.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona was in the top 10
Well! The Hangover 2 was trash, just a copy of the original. The first I tought is ok and have some funny moments but this one was just lazy. Kung Fu Panda was more entertaint and had great 3d. Cause Hangover had a better weekend some people is calling Jack Black comedy a failure, but common classes are not over and the next animated movie is 4 weeks from now. I bet Panda at the end show better legs than Hangover. I knew Hangover wasgoing to dominate the firts weekend cause it has a lot of fans!
The most interesting thing about The Hangover II winning out again is that it is an R rated comedy, most interesting is that usually an animated movie will beat out any adult film if released the same weekend because the parents who would have otherwise seen the film by themselves w/ out their kids are taking their children to go see the family film that week.
Kung Fu Panda, being a family film will most definitely have strong legs as parents always need a film to take their kids to see to shut them up during the day time or on the weekends when they are home all weekend. This doesn’t necessarily mean that The Hangover won’t continue to hit its projections and make decent bucks over the next few months.
That is interesting Excpired…
Back in 2008, Kung Fu Panda premiered during the first weekend of June to critical acclaim, and a brilliant box office total of $60 million dollars en route to over $200 million domestically. It looked to be the beginning of a very new, very successful franchise from Dreamworks Animation–one without the use of overplayed green ogres and stale pop culture references.
Flash forward 3 years to the addition of the next eagerly awaited chapter in the series, on a popular summer holiday where kids would be out of school. The week preceding the film’s debut was garnished with favorable reviews and the film already had the support of the previously well received (commercial and critical) chapter behind it. Additionally, the primary competition for the film would be one with a completely different demographic all together (adults of the 17-39 age range).
So while all the pieces fit together to enable the fair prediction of a pretty big box office smash…why did the film under perform this past weekend?
We could argue that the presence of The Hangover and the 2nd weekend of Pirates drove numbers away from the overall weekend box office of the film, but when you think about it, they do take pretty dramatically different audiences (an older set, really). Plus, family films generally generate better box office numbers compared to adult films (er…not porn “adult films”, but rather rated R films) due to the ability to admit a wider audience and weekends being a prime time for family-oriented activities.
We could also argue that audiences might be sick of sequels in general, but as proven by most sequels released during summer, sequel-itis rarely affects success(this year alone having Fast Five, Pirates 4, and Hangover 2 be the top opening weekends of the year).
And we could even just say that audiences were just not screaming for a Kung Fu Panda 2. But given the A-grade Cinemascore of the first in 2008, and the $600+ million worldwide gross, I’d argue that they would be very open to it.
So what is it that went wrong here?
I’d like to leave it to the forum to contribute their ideas.
Big first weekends does not mean big box office the long way. Probably fans of Hangover were more excited to see a sequel than the Pirates fan or Kung Fu Panda. If the movie has good word of mouth is going to have low drops a get big numbers also and probably end better than the ones that start solid. Fast Five, Thor is being like by fans and no fans. I know fans of Pirates( I am one of them) and the Hangover probably will like the movie too but I don’t heard a lot of good reviews from no fans. I think KFP 2 is going to have bigger numbers the long way than Hangover 2 But that just my opinion. But I have to admit this summer is being very full of option for the moviegoers!!!!!
Sorry for the grammar! ANyways this summer is being very crowded so don’t get surprise when some movies do not surprise right away!
It’s really cool that you didn’t punctuate that last thought.
Journalism: Still classy.