Variety reports the top movies, in terms of box office take, for the week of 24-30 July 2009. The guinea pigs outdid the wizards. To wit, G-Force topped the charts in its first week in release, taking in $49.4 million. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince slipped from #1 to #2, earning $45.9 million, for a two-week total of $237.8 million. New spooky film The Orphan opened at #4 (behind comedy The Ugly Truth), grossing $19.5 million. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, was pushed down from #2 to #5, bringing in $13.5 million, for a four-week total of $176.5 million. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was down from #3 to #6, grabbing another $12.4 million, for a five-week box-office total of $383.5 million.
Up was finally knocked out of the top 10, falling from #8 to #11, taking in $2.9 million, for a nine-week total of $284.9 million. Night at the Museum: Battle Smithsonian was down from #13 to #16, grossing $1.1 million, for a ten-week total of $173.5 million. Star Trek slipped from #15 to #17, grossing $750 thousand, for a twelve-week total of $254.3 million. Moon fell from #16 to #22, bringing in $400 thousand, for a seven-week total of $3.4 million. Land of the Lost actually climbed a spot, from #24 to #23, earning $325 thousand, for an eight-week total of $49.1 million. And Eddie Murphy’s Imagine That returned to the top 25 after two weeks below the level (see this article), clocking in at #24, with a box office take of $300 thousand, for a seven-week total of $15.7 million.
Falling out of the top 25 were Terminator Salvation (last week’s #20), in its tenth week on the charts; Angels & Demons (last week’s #23), for the second time, in its eleventh week in the theatres, and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (last week’s #25), for the second time, in its thirteenth week in release.
SFScope reviews of movies mentioned in this article:
Young Wizards in Love—a review of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by Michael A. Burstein
Breaking the Tie: One More Review of Star Trek by Shane Tourtellotte
Star Trek: I may be the only one who had trouble with the movie, but man… by Ian Randal Strock
The Future Returns—a review of Star Trek by Michael A. Burstein
Insert Your Own “I’ll Be Back” Joke Here—a review of Terminator Salvation by Michael A. Burstein
Beside Himself—a review of Moon by Sarah Stegall
Please, sir, I want some more (fantasy)—a review of Imagine That by Ian Randal Strock