Box Office Report: Up Holds off Hangover

For the second weekend in a row, Pixar’s latest animated adventure Up, was number one at the box office with another $44.2 million in the bank. This is the first movie this summer to be number one for more than one week. Up has now grossed $137 million in just two weeks of release. Two new high profile movies were released this weekend and only one gave Up a run for its money. The Vegas road trip comedy The Hangover nearly took the top spot this weekend making $43.2 million opening weekend. This puts The Hangover about million behind Up, and come tomorrow morning, the final numbers could put Hangover in the top spot. Continue reading to check out a full breakdown for the rest of the weekend box office.

Director Todd Phillips has brought audiences the official sleeper hit so far this summer. Most estimates put The Hangover making $25-30 million opening weekend. With a fantastic $17 million Friday opening, the hilarious comedy starring Bradley Cooper took in $43.2 million. This movie should hold up well in the coming weeks with positive reviews and little competition from upcoming films. The next comedy to hit theaters will be the Jack Black and Michael Cera comedy Year One. If I were the producers behind Year One I would be concerned seeing how Will Ferrell’s new release Land of the Lost bombed this weekend with a dismal $19 million opening. Land of the Lost did manage to make it to the number three spot but with negative reviews this movie won’t last long this summer.

The rest of the weekend box office looked like this:

Night at the Museum took in $14.6 million (#4)  this weekend bringing its total so far to $127 million in three weeks. The number five spot went to Star Trek which had continued its run at the domestic box office as the highest grossing movie this year. It made $8.4 million this weekend which brings the J.J Abrams’ reboot to a stellar $222 million in just 5 weeks of release.

Next week should be a slow weekend at the box office. Eddie Murphy brings audiences his kids flick Imagine That and Denzel Washington and John Travolta star in The Taking of Pelham 123. We may be seeing some lower profile movies the next few weeks, but on the 24th of June all that will end with Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen being released.