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by ssjrem

Well, after several weeks of the box office not living up to levels from a year ago, G.I. Joe comes along and rescues the summer box office, which had been in a bit of a rough patch for the past few weeks. This is especially good news in August, normally the weakest of the summer months in terms of box office.

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Number one this weekend is obviously G.I. Joe. I have to admit that it did a fair bit better than I expected. I only pinned it around 44 million, but it ended up with 54.7 million for that weekend. That is a very solid number. Both critics and moviegoers don’t seem to care for it too much, so I don’t think it will have great legs, but 100 million is a guarantee and it could get up to about 130 or so. This debut is actually rather impressive considering August is a pretty weak month for openers. Only three movies (The Bourne Ultimatum, Rush Hour 2, and Signs) have opened to more in the month of August. I haven’t seen this yet and I don’t really think it looks that good, but I wouldn’t be surprised at all if I ended up seeing it anyway. My friends and I never really have anything to do….. Anyway, let’s move on to number two!

Julie and Julia

I love Amy Adams. I thought about just putting up a sexy picture of her, but I’m going to try to stop doing that. I think it got a little stale. Anyway, I don’t understand this movie at all. It seemed like it had one of the dumbest premises ever. It just seems weird. Anyway, though, it connected pretty well with its target audience of older women and debuted solidly to 20 million. It’s rated 76% at Rotten Tomatoes and has a solid 7.8 in user ratings on The Internet Movie Database. Movies like this tend to have pretty good legs, too, so I would say that 100 million is a possibility. It’s not likely, but it’s certainly possible.

3. G-Force makes another 9.9 million this weekend for a total of 86 million. It’ll get over 100 million, but not by much. It’s been having unusually large declines for a kids’ movie, especially one in 3-D. Maybe the 3-D novelty is starting to wear off.

4. Harry Potter sees its gross chopped in half from last weekend, pulling in 8.9 million to lift the total to 273.8 million. At the same point, Order of the Phoenix had grossed 261 million. Half Blood Prince is pulling in a little less per weekend now, so it will continue to see its lead picked away. I do think it will end up outgrossing OOTP, though. 300 million seems like a stretch; a total in the mid 290s seems in store.

5. Wow, people really hate Funny People. I guess it really must suck. First, it underperformed last weekend. Now, it falls like a rock. It decreased 65% from last weekend and fell from first to fifth and has grossed only 40.5 million so far. That is massively disappointing. Well, shit happens, I guess.

6. The Ugly Truth makes about 6.7 million. Total up to 68.8 million. Katherine Heigl is hot. I have nothing more to say.

7. I read Roger Ebert’s review for The Perfect Getaway and it made me laugh. He didn’t know what the movie was about and thought it was a comedy going into it when it fact it’s a horror movie. Honestly, I wouldn’t even know this movie existed if I didn’t do all this movie and box office shit on the Internet. I haven’t seen a single advertisement for this movie, though it certainly helps that I never watch TV. Anyway, it made a little under 6 million. Yeah, uh, this is probably going absolutely nowhere.

8. Aliens in the Attic manages one more weekend in the top ten, falling 50% to a little more than 4 million. The total stands at 16 million against a 45 million budget. How one spends 45 million dollars on a movie like this is just beyond me.

9. (500) Days of Summer makes a somewhat surprising appearance into the top ten. It just expanded from a limited release. It made 3.7 million this weekend and add to that the money it made while in limited release, it’s up to 12.4 so far. It’s got a very impressive 89% at Rotten Tomatoes and also has an 8.7 at IMDB, making it currently the 129th highest rated movie on the site. I imagine that ranking will fall; they usually do with time, but that’s still very impressive. I love Zooey Deschanel. I’ve loved her ever since Elf. I thought she looked really good as a blonde, but I do like her as a brunette even more. Anyway, let’s move on.

10. Orphan falls 51%, makes 3.7 million, and raises its total to 34.8 million. Not bad.

Anyway, a number of big summer blockbusters fell from the top ten this weekend, so I’ll give them a send off. Transformers is up to 394 million, The Hangover’s up to 262, The Proposal’s at 155, and Ice Age is at 188. Yeah, I did really shitty in the derby this week. I’d rather not comment on it. So, yeah, next weekend brings us District 9, a movie which has me very intrigued. I could imagine it sucking, but I I do think that there is a lot of potential. I’ll probably see it opening weekend, so expect a review from me or Dukemich soon enough. I guess that’s it. Peace out.