Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian widened its first place lead by grossing $20 million on Saturday, according to box-office estimates. This brings its three-day weekend estimate to $53.5 million. By comparison, the original Night at the Museum opened to a three-day weekend tally of $30.4 million in December 2006, and then showed incredible stamina during the following months. As for Terminator Salvation, the future may be looking bleak. Salvation grossed $14.8 million on Saturday — a small drop from its estimated Friday harvest of $15 million. Nearly all of the movies in the Top 10 saw Friday-to-Saturday boosts of at least 20%, so the fact that Salvation‘s numbers are actually dropping is cause for concern. Salvation is on track for a three-day weekend total of $43 million. The last Terminator movie, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, opened to $44 million during Independence Day weekend in 2003. Saturday’s figures are below, and check back here on Monday for a full four-day holiday weekend recap.
1. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian – $20 mil
2. Terminator Salvation — $14.8 mil
3. Star Trek — $8.4 mil
4. Angels and Demons — $8.1 mil
5. Dance Flick — $3.9 mil
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Wolverine opens with an impressive $87 million
EW.com’s Box Office Chart
LMAO!!!!! See what happens when you make a pg13 Terminator with a director named MCG….200 million plus budget with a less than 50 million opening weekend…I’m guessing plans for a trilogy are in jeopardy now.
The bad word of mouth has put me off from seeing Terminator this weekend. I’d rather go to Star Trek again or save my cash for next week’s Drag Me to Hell.
Wow! T4 is flopping! LOL
http://tvdonewright.com/2009/05/24/canadian-networks-work-on-their-schedules-pick-up-new-shows/
Star Trek was still full on Saturday-mostly with families.
At least Wolverine managed to make its money back – T4 on the other hand…..
Well, I went and saw Terminator: Salvation on Wednesday night and think that it’s better than people are giving it credit for. It was much better than Wolverine and Terminator 3, and I believed it earned it’s place in the franchise.
Said it yesterday and I’ll say it again today. McG is a franchise killer!!!!!!!
You forgot to mention T4 brought in 13 million before friday so it’s actually at 56 million right now, 3 million ahead of Night at the Museum.
this is such bullsh*t
honestly there isn’t even that bad of a word of mouth for terminator. the press is just bashing the hell of it because its not the same as the first two movies.
T4 is a terrible movie. But what can you expect from the same writers that wrote Catwoman. Yeah, they added some Robocop rip off, that didn’t have anything to do with the previous Terminator movies. Then added some huge plot holes, about Skynet and Kyle.
Bale basically rehashing his Batman persona was also boring.
How I rank this summer’s box office champs so far (from best to worst)
1. Star Trek (good enough, not a GREAT a film as everyone’s touting. Go rent 1996′s ST: First Contract instead)
2. Angels and Demons (kept my attention, better than Da Vinci Code)
3. Terminator: Salvation (decent action, weak story)
4. Wolverine (just a mess)
And now I await Up, Transformers 2, et al.
A Terminator movie directed by McG sucks? I never would have guessed…
Bale and McG Zzzzzzzzz
Never would have guess that the terminators got taken out by Ben Stiller!
McG sucks!
-TL
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