Weekend Box Office Report: May 28-30
Sun, May 30, 2010 
Courtesy of Box Office Mojo:
1. Shrek Forever After - $43.3 million
2. Sex and the City 2 - $32.1 million
3. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - $30.1 million
4. Iron Man 2 - $16 million
5. Robin Hood - $10.3 million
6. Letters to Juliet - $5.9 million
7. Just Wright - $2.2 million
8. Date Night - $1.7 million
9. MacGruber - $1.4 million
10. How to Train Your Dragon - $1 million
Looks like most people were at barbecues instead of movie theaters this weekend, with the Memorial Day weekend box office coming in at its lowest total in nearly a decade.
Family-favorite Shrek Forever After held on to the #1 spot, falling only 39% from last weekend, although it's still lagging behind the previous films in the series, even with what's usually the added benefit 3D/IMAX ticket sales. Those sales dropped 6% from last weekend.
Sex and the City 2 earned $32.1 million, but since it opened on Thursday the final total through the weekend was $46.3 million. That's far below the $57 million the first Sex and the City film opened with two years ago.
Disney's big-budget videogame adaptation Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time opened without much fanfare this weekend, earning a modest $30.2 million. Looks like this won't turn out to be the next Pirates of the Caribbean-type franchise hit that the studio was hoping for (so it's a good thing they're working on a new Pirates movie right now).
Iron Man 2 came in at #4 with $16 million, which is below the $20.4 million the first Iron Man film earned on this same weekend in 2008, but the sequel's total domestic gross of $276 million has already surpassed the original film's $252 million total.
Ridley Scott's Robin Hood rounded out the top five with $10.3 million, bringing its domestic total to $83 million. While it may have a hard time passing the $100 million domestic mark, the movie continues to do well overseas with an additional $154 million.
Letters to Juliet managed to survive the Sex and the City opening weekend with $5.9 million. Holdovers Just Wright, Date Night and even How to Train Your Dragon kept their places within the top 10 with solid weekend ticket sales.
MacGruber continued to go the way of the SNL skit that it was based on, dropping a whopping 63% and earning only $1.3 million. With a barely noticable total of $7.1 million in ten days, it's currently the lowest-grossing SNL film.
Check back this week when Mitch reports back once the actual numbers are updated for the weekend. Hope everyone is having a great Memorial Day!
Reader Comments (2)
I thought SATC2 would steal the weekend, they came in 3rd on the 4 day weekend too wow!
I think opening on Thursday killed its opening weekend total. It's opening day grosses were better than anything it made over the weekend. If they had opened on Friday it would have had a stronger weekend overall. I saw it yesterday and the theater was surprisingly full. The first movie was probably a little better, but I liked it!