Weekend Box Office: ‘The Hangover’, ‘Up’ Hang On!

June 15, 2009 by admin
Filed under Movie News

the-hangover1 “The Hangover” is officially the summer’s biggest breakout hit. Its closest analogue is Wedding Crashers, which, four summers ago, was carried by positive word-of-mouth to a final gross nearly seven times its opening weekend. The Hangover has bigger raw numbers, but its second weekend drop — 25% — is comparable. For a film that opened to $45 million, and without any sort of holiday boost, that’s pretty remarkable. It will have some competition next weekend in the form of Year One, but it may not matter much; its word-of-mouth appears to be the stuff that dreams are made of.

Pixar’s Up is also going gangbusters in second place. It is now running a mere $4 million behind Pixar box office champion Finding Nemo. At this point it’s anybody’s game.

The weekend’s two wide openers — The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 and Imagine That Imagine That opened pretty much to expectations. Pelham did a respectable $25 million, which is pretty close to previous Denzel Washington-Tony Scott collaborations (Man on Fire and Deja Vu). And Imagine That’s $5.7 million pretty much precisely mirrors the opening of Eddie Murphy’s Meet Dave this time next year. Murphy really needs to do something to shake things up a bit.

The full top 10 after the jump.

1 – The Hangover (Warner Bros.) – $33.42 ($9,960) – $105.39
2 – Up (Disney) – $30.52 ($7,853) – $187.18
3 – The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (Sony) – $25.00 ($8,133) – $25.00
4 – Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (Fox) – $9.60 ($2,853) – $143.45
5 – Land of the Lost (Universal) – $9.15 ($2,590) – $34.98
6 – Imagine That (Paramount) – $5.70 ($1,895) – $5.70
7 – Star Trek (Paramount) – $5.60 ($2,123) – $232.03
8 – Terminator Salvation (Warner Bros.) – $4.70 ($1,772) – $113.83
9 – Angels & Demons (Sony) – $4.20 ($1,724) – $123.30
10 – Drag Me to Hell (Universal) – $3.86 ($1,700) – $35.15

Tags: The Hangover, Up, Wedding Crashers, Year One