Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs was No. 2 with $28.5 million, dropping only 32 percent from last weekend. The animated family film has made $120.6 million in two weeks. Third place went to the robots, as Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen smashed up $24.2 million in its third weekend, bringing its total to $339.2 million. Transformers 3 will be here before you know it.
Public Enemies (No. 4 with $14.1 million) and The Proposal (No. 5 with $10.5 million) round out the top five. The Proposal marks star Sandra Bullock’s first $100 million picture since 2000′s Miss Congeniality, and the romantic comedy should have no trouble passing 1994′s Speed to become Bullock’s biggest hit. The weekend’s other new wide release, the teen comedy I Love You, Beth Cooper, opened at No. 7 with $5 million.
Looking to the indie scene, a trio of films garnered decent openings. Blood: The Last Vampire drained $103,000 from 20 theaters. The “mumblecore” comedy, Humpday, made $30,000 on just two screens, and the music documentary, Soul Power, took $25,000 from six screens. The year’s best-reviewed film, The Hurt Locker, expanded to 60 theaters in its third weekend and earned $623,000 for a hearty $10,383 per-screen average. The Iraq War thriller will continue expanding into additional theaters over the next few weeks.
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The Movie Critics: Owen Gleiberman and Lisa Schwarzbaum spar over Bruno:
good! now maybe sacha can go away for awhile and stop degrading people with his pathetic attempts at “humor”
Go Bruno!!!
I don’t get why its getting a “C” rating on Cinemascore— i mean it got 88% on CrazyCritics.com — whatever I loved it
This movie sucked terrible. Worse bang for my buck ever.
I hope Bruno’s business picks up. It was so hilarious, better than Borat in my opinion.
Hoping I get a chance to see The Hurt Locker soon.
Worse movie i’ve ever seen in a movie theather. Just an awful movie!!!
The movie was not funny. A first class piece of vulgar trash, and it was an insult to the gay community.
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the movie was pretty bad. paula abdul looked cute though, shes the only one in the whole movie who shouldnt be embarassed, basically. harrison ford came off as a big bastard!
I loved this movie better than Borat. I especially liked the caged fight scene in Arkansas and the reactions from the rednecks.
My faith in the American public is restored! The critics may have fallen for this trash and called it art, but it appears that after the “shock value” opening, the people have realized that this no-talent hack is just another Paris Hilton and ignored Bruno. Look out below!
Maybe people are finally starting to realize that “humor” doesn’t have to be offensive and disgusting.
Wow – looks like even the suckers who went and saw it on day one because they’re into that type of humor couldn’t even recommend it to friends.
I’m sure some will cry homophobia or people being old-fashioned — I think it’s just that some people expect a comedy to be funny and not just desperate attempts to shock people.
I went and saw this show last night. I thought it was hilarious and very funny. I could see the men squirming in their chairs over the explicit gay scenes, but it was very funny, and you dont go to one of his shows, unless you expect to have jaw dropping humor, and there was alot of that.
I think that there was a mixed bag of strong response and complete turnoff with Bruno’s box office results. It’s doing well with adult audiences with its comedy and strong controversial adult content, but it was facing against the family and kid driven Ice Age. I can see the $2 million difference between both movies’ finishes this weekend. And Transformers is still performing strongly in its 3rd weekend. Because it’s a mockumentary and not straight up dialogue and acting fare like the typical movie competition, it might lose some momentum later this week and next week. People wanted to see what the fuss was all about.