Weekend Box Office: May 14-16th

Courtesy of ComingSoon.net:

1. Iron Man 2:  $53 million

2. Robin Hood:  $37.1 million

3. Letters to Juliet:  $13.7 million

4. Just Wright:  $8.5 million

5. How to Train Your Dragon:  $5.1 million

6. A Nightmare on Elm Street:  $4.7 million

7. Date Night:  $4 million

8. The Back-Up Plan:  $2.4 million

9: Furry Vengeance:  $2.3 million

10. Clash of the Titans:  $1.2 million

As predicted, Iron Man 2 easily held the #1 spot over Robin Hood this weekend.  That's a 59% drop from the opening weekend, which is a pretty big drop, but it was still good enough to cross the $200 million mark domestically, and its worldwide total now stands at $457 million.

Ridley Scott's new version of Robin Hood finished the weekend with an OK (but not great) $37.1 million.  The good news for Universal is that it's doing much better overseas, where it grossed an additional $74 million - topping the opening weekends for both of the previous Ridley Scott/Russell Crowe films Gladiator and American Gangster.  The bad news is that at this point it's unlikely to make back its estimated $225 production costs.  

The romance drama Letters to Juliet, starring Amanda Seyfried, opened with an unremarkable $13.7 million.  The Queen Latifah comedy Just Wright also opened quietly with $8.5 million.

How to Train Your Dragon remained in the top 5, adding another $5.1 million to its $207 million domestic total.  Expect those numbers to go down once the new Shrek movie opens next week.

The remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street dropped to sixth place, with another $4.7 million.  Its domestic total now stands at $56.1 million, so if New Line is serious about that 3D sequel, now would be the time to get started on it.

The romantic comedies Date Night and The Break-Up Plan held up respectively over the weekend.  Furry Vengeance somehow still remains in the top 10 (seriously, who is seeing this movie?), and Clash of the Titans managed to cling to a few more theaters to claim the #10 spot with $1.25 million, however, it's already been outgrossed by Iron Man 2 and How to Train Your Dragon.

Check back for Mitch's update once the actuals come in.  I'll be curious to see what Iron Man 2's official numbers are for the weekend.