Variety reports the top movies, in terms of box office take, for the week of 24-30 June 2011. It’s summer speculative fiction blockbuster season. Pixar’s newest animated sequel, Cars 2, opened at the top of the charts, revving up $90.9 million. Transformers: Dark of the Moon opened on 29 June, and still managed to wind up at #2 on the charts, transforming $64.7 million. The new Cameron Diaz comedy Bad Teacher opened at #3. Green Lantern slipped from #1 to #4, shining up $24.7 million, for a two-week total of $95.7 million. Super 8 slipped from #2 to #5, making $17.5 million, for a three-week total of $100.5 million. X-Men: First Class slipped from #4 to #7, earning $9.5 million, for a four-week total of $135.7 million. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, slipped from #8 to #10, seeking out $7.2 million, for a six-week total of $231.5 million.
Kung Fu Panda 2 fell from #6 to #11, kicking up $6.3 million, for a five-week total of $155.2 million. Rio showed some strength, holding steady at #15, flying away with $950 thousand (a bit more than last week), for an eleven-week total of $140.0 million. Thor fell from #12 to #16, pounding down $800 thousand, for an eight-week total of $177.5 million.
Falling out of the top 25 this week was:
Rango (last week’s #22) in its seventeenth week in release (box office total: $123.1 million)