Box office report for May 31, 2011: “Hangover Part II” sets comedy record
Plenty of film fans were ready for more cinematic overindulgence over the Memorial Day weekend: “The Hangover Part II” binged at the box office with a $103.4 million haul over the four-day holiday weekend. The sequel to the 2009 Las Vegas-set blockbuster set a new revenue record for a comedy debut, according to the Associated Press.
“The Hangover Part II,” which brought back Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Zach Galifianakis and Justin Bartha as pals whose drunken antics get them into all sorts of outrageous trouble, this time in Thailand, surpassed the previous best comedy opening of $85.7 million for “Bruce Almighty” over Memorial Day weekend 2003.
The weekend’s other new wide release, the animated sequel “Kung Fu Panda 2,” opened in second-place with $60.9 million, according to the AP.
To read my review of the super-fun “Kung Fu Panda 2,” click here.
Here are the top 10 movies from the Memorial Day weekend, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, according to the AP:
1. “The Hangover Part II,” Warner Bros., $103,426,875, 3,615 locations, $28,610 average, $135,037,242, one week.
2. “Kung Fu Panda 2,” Paramount, $60,871,175, 3,925 locations, $15,509 average, $66,675,304, one week.
3. “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” Disney, $50,012,338, 4,164 locations, $12,011 average, $163,607,625, two weeks.
4. “Bridesmaids,” Universal, $20,736,910, 2,958 locations, $7,010 average, $89,343,465, three weeks.
5. “Thor,” Paramount, $12,080,141, 3,296 locations, $3,665 average, $162,439,444, four weeks.
6. “Fast Five,” Universal, $7,889,650, 2,981 locations, $2,647 average, $197,308,750, five weeks.
7. “Midnight in Paris,” Sony Pictures Classics, $2,555,210, 58 locations, $44,055 average, $3,460,194, two weeks.
8. “Rio,” Fox, $2,443,571, 1,672 locations, $1,461 average, $135,484,845, seven weeks.
9. “Jumping the Broom,” Sony, $2,385,436, 939 locations, $2,540 average, $34,666,502, four weeks.
10. “Something Borrowed,” Warner Bros., $2,278,192, 1,440 locations, $1,582 average, $35,192,518, four weeks.
-BAM
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