Weekend Box Office: July 8-10
Mon, July 11, 2011 
Courtesy of Box Office Mojo:
1. Transformers: Dark of the Moon - $47.1 million
2. Horrible Bosses - $28.3 million
3. Zookeeper - $20 million
4. Cars 2 - $15.2 million
5. Bad Teacher - $8.9 million
6. Larry Crowne - $5.9 million
7. Super 8 - $4.8 million
8. Monte Carlo - $3.8 million
9. Mr. Popper's Penguins - $3.15 million
10. Green Lantern - $3.14 million
Not suprisingly, it was no contest at the box office as Transformers: Dark of the Moon easily took the weekend over new releases Horrible Bosses and Zookeeper with $47.1 million. More surprisingly, the film dropped a mere 52% from last weekend - a good sign that unlike the last Transformers film, fewer people think the movie sucked. How it holds up against Harry Potter next weekend has yet to be seen, but for now, Transformers sits pretty as 2011's highest-grossing film with $261 million. Worldwide, the movie has made $645 million. People do seem to like their ass-kicking robots.
As far as the new releases, Horrible Bosses continued the R-rated comedy hit streak this summer, opening with $28.3 million. That's right in between the opening weekends for Bridesmaids (which finally dropped out of the top ten this weekend) and Bad Teacher. Meanwhile, Kevin James' family comedy Zookeeper did not have that Paul Blart-mojo, opening with just $20 million. Apparently it was not such a hit amongst the talking-gorilla-goes-to-TGI Fridays-crowd. Then again, what is?
Cars 2 is proving to be somewhat disappointing by Pixar standards, finishing the weekend with $15.2 million. At $148 million, it's falling behind where the original Cars was at this same point in 2006, although that franchise makes it's real money at the toy stores.
Otherwise, a fairly quiet weekend at the box office. Consider it the calm before the battle for Hogwarts begins, as the final Harry Potter film starts rolling out at midnight on Friday.
And, lest we forget: next weekend also marks the big-screen return of Winnie the Pooh. Since Pooh and friends obviously have some big competition next weekend, it's nice to see they're taking the whole thing in stride:
Oh hell, I totally want to see that. After Harry Potter, of course.
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