Variety reports the top movies, in terms of box office take, for the week of 12-18 June 2009. Comedy The Hangover hung on in the top spot for a second week. Up, too, kept its place at #2, taking in another $42.2 million, for a three-week total of $198.8 million. Action remake The Taking of Pelham 123 had enough action to take #3. But behind that, Night at the Museum: Battle Smithsonian, showed real strength by holding onto the #4 spot, earning $13.4 million, for a four-week total of $147.2 million. Land of the Lost lost ground, from #3 to #5, grabbing $12.7 million, for a two-week total of $38.5 million. Star Trek slipped from #5 to #6, beaming up another $7.6 million, for a six-week total of $234.0 million. Eddie Murphy’s quasi-fantasy Imagine That (see our review) opened in the #7 spot, earning $7.6 million. Terminator Salvation was down from #6 to #8, grossing $6.7 million, for a four-week box office total of $115.8 million. Angels & Demons was down only from #8 to #9, grabbing another $6.2 million, for a five-week total of $125.3 million. Drag Me to Hell again slipped, from #7 to #10, dragging in $5.5 million, for a three-week total of $36.8 million.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine finally fell out of the top 10, down this week from #10 to #12, bringing in $1.3 million, for a seven-week total of $176.5 million. 17 Again bounced from #19 all the way up to #15, earning $725 thousand (almost twice what it did last week), for a nine-week total of $62.5 million. The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past fell from #12 to #16, taking in $700 thousand, for a seven-week total of $53.1 million. Monsters vs. Aliens this week resumed the usual downward motion on the charts, falling from #15 to #20, but still earning another $300 thousand, for a twelve-week total of $195.3 million. Race to Witch Mountain fell from #17 to #23, bringing in $200 thousand, for a fourteen-week total of $66.5 million. And the new small film that’s getting a lot of talk, Moon (starring Sam Rockwell and directed by David Bowie’s son Duncan Jones) opened in very limited release, but still managed to find its way to #25 on the list, earning $135 thousand.