Box Office Report
Behold the power of the geeks! This week’s top movie, “District 9,” was made by a relatively unknown director, featured a no-name cast, cost only $30 million to make, and a couple of months ago it was tracking below people’s radar. Then came Comic-Con and suddenly “District 9″ was generating enough buzz to power a small city. It paid off this weekend, as the scifi allegory earned $37 million (more than the budget of the film) in its opening weekend to capture the top spot.
The other films opening this weekend had a more mixed reception. Fans of the acclaimed bestselling novel showed up to watch the movie version of “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” which debuted at number 3 with $19.2 million. However, the Jeremy Piven vehicle “The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard” bombed, coming in at number 6 with a little over $5 million. I think the lack of publicity for “Ponyo,” the Disney release by visionary Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki (best known in America for his masterpiece “Spirited Away”), may have hurt it since it debuted with only $3.51 million.
Here are the top ten grossers of this weekend according to the IMDB.
1.) “District 9″ $37 million (New)
2.) “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra” $22.5 million ($98.8 million)
3.) ”The Time Traveler’s Wife” $19.2 million (New)
4.) “Julie & Julia” $12.4 million ($43.7 million)
5.) “G-Force” $6.91 million ($99 million)
6.) “The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard” $5.35 million (New)
7.) “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” $5.16 million ($284 million)
8.) “The Ugly Truth” $4.5 million ($77.5 million)
9.) “Ponyo” $3.51 million (New)
10.) “(500) Days of Summer” $3.02 million ($18 million)
—3D
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