Variety reports the top movies, in terms of box office take, for the week of 4-10 September 2009. Horror flick The Final Destination held onto the top spot, sucking in another $17.6 million, for a two-week total of $52.8 million. Last week’s #2, Inglourious Basterds, also held steady. Suspenseful sci-fi thriller Gamer opened at #4, taking in $13.0 million. District 9 slipped from #4 to #5, earning $10.6 million, for a four-week total of $104.9 million. Halloween II fell from #3 to #7, grossing $7.9 million, for a two-week total of $28.0 million. GI Joe fell from #6 to #8, earning $7.4 million, for a five-week total of $141.7 million. The Time Traveler’s Wife was down from #7 to #10, bringing in $6.4 million, for a four-week total of $56.7 million.
The new animated post-apocalyptic tale 9 opened on the 9th, yet with far less than a week in the theatres, it managed to hit #11 on the charts, with a box-office take of $4.4 million. Shorts fell from #8 to #12, earning $4.1 million, for a three-week total of $18.5 million. G-Force fell from #10 to #13, grabbing $3.1 million, for a seven-week total of $115.7 million. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince fell from #11 to #14, bringing in $2.8 million, for an eight-week total of $297.9 million. Ponyo fell from #13 to #17, earning $2.1 million, for a four-week US total of $13.7 million (it opened last year in Japan as Gake no ue no Ponyo). Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen held steady at #20, grossing $1.1 million (30% more than last week), for an eleven-week total of $400.8 million. Up resumed its downward slide, falling from #18 to #21, taking in $1.1 million (20% more than last week), for a fifteen-week total of $291.0 million. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs slipped from #21 to #23, earning $875 thousand (also, more than last week), for a ten-week total of $194.3 million. Aliens in the Attic slipped from #22 to #24, grabbing $725 thousand (yet another box office increase), for a six-week total of $23.8 million.
Last week’s #24 film, The Orphan, fell out of the top 25 in its seventh 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