BOX OFFICE WATCH: 09-11 JULY, WEEK 28 OF 2010

| By Bernard Chung
Week 28/2010
US BOX OFFICE WEEKEND 09-11 July 2010


This week, Universal opened the biggest opening weekend ever for the studio in more than a year. The animation Despicable Me dominated the box office with $56.4 million and is unable to take in as the largest non-Pixar original opening from Kung Fu Panda ($60.2 million). The other weekend fellow opener, Predators did some respectable opening by grossing $24.8 million for third place. Most of holdovers were holding relatively well this weekend. This week, Green Tea Movie was unable to provide you with in-depth analysis of the new opener. Check out the table for the top ten chart below. The top ten films this weekend surged to an estimated $191.1 million (second highest of the year), up a massive 45% from last year when Bruno opened at the top spot ($30.6 million); and up 37% from 2008 when Hellboy II debuted at number one with $34.5M. This is the third year in a row that Universal opened a new film at number one on this particular frame.


Rank Movie Title Weekend Gross ($)Change (%) Total Gross ($)
1 DESPICABLE ME 56,397,125 NEW56,397,125
2 THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE 31,708,438 -51.1 235,370,815
3 PREDATPRS 24,760,882 NEW 24,760,882
4 TOY STORY 3 21,015,598 -30.6 339,240,857
5 THE LAST AIRBENDER 16,635,471 -58.7 99,712,757
6 GROWN UPS 15,806,738 -17.0 110,721,531
7 KNIGHT & DAY 7,719,251 -26.1 61,808,110
8 THE KARATE KID 5,365,636 -32.9 164,301,124
9 THE A-TEAM 1,752,421 -45.1 73,923,594
10 CYRUS 1,280,470 +65.3 3,426,545
*Note: All figures are ACTUAL grosses. Courtesy of BOX OFFICE MOJO.
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