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Movie News 7
There is a new number one movie at the box office. Come find out which movie made it to number one.
It was a great weekend at the box office this past Memorial Day weekend (5/21/09 – 5/23/09). The number one and two movies alone made over $123 million.
As BC Doan and I predicted in Movie News 6, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian came in at number one at the box office. It made $70 million. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian is the sequel to Night at the Museum, which came out in 2006. The sequel made more than the first one. Night at the Museum made $30.4 million in its opening weekend. According to reports, the people who did Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian didn’t expect it to do as well as it did. They thought Terminator Salvation would have been the one in the number one spot. That brings me to the number two movie.
Terminator Salvation came in at number two at the box office. It made over $53 million. It also made an additional $13.4 million since opening on Thursday. The movie has made $67.2 million since its opening day. I think Terminator Salvation would have opened better had Arnold Schwarzenegger had played a bigger part in the movie. The other three Terminator movies were about the Terminator, which Arnold played in the movies. This one was more focused on John Connor. I heard that Arnold has a cameo appearance in Terminator Salvation. Terminator played to an older audience. It didn’t have the broad based appeal of Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. There was controversy surrounding Terminator Salvation. Christian Bale reportedly had conflict with the director of the movie. He was taped yelling at the director. There were also rumors that he wanted his character, John Connor, to play a bigger role in the movie.
Star Trek slipped to number 3 with over $29 million. It held up well at the box office. It’s on its way of becoming the year’s top grossing movie. It has made $193.5 million so far. Last week’s number one movie Angels & Demons slipped to number four with over $27 million. It has made $87.8 million so far. I expected it to slip, but I didn’t expect it to slip all the way to fourth place. I figured it would have slipped to second or third place. Rounding out the top five was Dance Flick, which came in at number five with over $13 million. This is a spoof movie about dance flicks produced by the Wayans’ family. Some of the Wayans also star in the movie. I wasn’t surprised that it didn’t debut that well. It had too much stiff competition to make it to number one.
Here are the top 10 movies for the week:
- *Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian – 70 million
- *Terminator Salvation – 53.8 million
- Star Trek – 29.4 million
- Angels and Demons – 27.7 million
- *Dance Flick – 13.1 million
- X-Men Origins: Wolverwine – 10.1 million
- Ghosts of Girlfriends Past – 4.8 million
- Obsessed – 2.5 million
- Monsters vs. Aliens – 1.9 million
- 17 Again – 1.3 million
*indicates new movies
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A fantastic edition of Movie 7. It’s always a thrill to find out which latest movie has topped the charts. Even more staggering are the earnings. *Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian – 70 million!! I was not really surprised that the new Terminator movie, Terminator Salvation came in at no2 and generated an older audience. It shows how fast the times are moving. I reakon even if Arnie had retrieved the title role (good robot or bad) either way, the movie may have rated a little higher but would still have not topped the charts. I am definately interested to watch both the Night at the museum movies after learning that even the makers did not expect it to reach the no1 position. BRILLIANT UPDATE. thanks very much for posting it in!
For once, I was right about Night at the museum!
Since I am not comfortable with bloody, fighting, or scary movies, I will always go with family type movies! I’ll never get a job in this industry
You’re right! Night at the museum is now at no 1. Hopefully it’ll maintain at no 1 for the following week too. Great movie info, thanks.
I don’t really gt out to watch movies nowadays but perhaps after this i should take the wife to go see one of these. Very informative, good read. Good Job! Continue and May the Lord Bless you with much success!
I used to catch all the new movies but now I’m more of a home body. Loved your reviews anyway and maybe I will get out to see one.
Thank you all for checking out my article. I try to see movies when I can. There are still some that I haven’t checked out yet.
Those are big numbers you are presenting. We are experiencing hard times, but people refuse to stop entertaining themselves lol
hmm…I think Night at the Museum is the only one I would go out of my way to see.
Nice to have some good movie info…
I think that another thing that’s probably ruining Terminator: Salvation is the fact that the Terminator franchise has gotten old and they’re running out of ideas. Also, although I’m a big fan of the series I have to admit that trying to continue the series without any of the cast members from the previous movies is a big gamble. Continuing on with Rise of The Machines without Linda Hamilton and James Cameron was a big enough risk right there, which is probably why it do anywhere near as well as it should’ve. And now here’s Salvation with an entirely new cast. That was probably a big mistake.
LOL Morgana. You’re right. I guess money problems won’t keep people from going to the movies.
Thanks for the kind words, Stephanie. I hope you get a chance to see Night At the Museum. I still lhaven’t seen it yet.
I agree with you, ActionSammy. I think the franchise would have done better with more of the original cast too. It should have stopped after Terminator 2. Terminator 3 was good, but it was a disaster compared to 1 and 2.
Interesting Top 10! I debated this weekend on Night at the Museum and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, when with Ghosts! It was really cute and funny. Really great cast too!
Thanks for the info about Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Cindy. I haven’t seen it yet so it’s good to know that it’s good.
I saw the first Night of the Museum and I really liked it. It was really entertaining. I look forward to seeing the second movie too.;-)
I haven’t seen eith one of these yet, but it’s good to know that the first one is good. Thanks for checking out my article, mel.