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There's No Beating This Hangover
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Denzel Washington and John Travolta did all right for, you know, movie stars.
The A-listers' remake of The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 debuted with a solid $25 million at the weekend box office, per estimates, which again was dominated by The Hangover ($33.4 million) and Up ($30.5 million).
Eddie Murphy, meanwhile, delivered another miss, with his new family comedy Imagine That ($5.7 million) pegged to make less over the weekend than The Hangover made last Tuesday.
Drilling down into the numbers:
• If you think it's not a confusing thing to be a veteran movie star in 2009, consider that Bradley Cooper has two more No. 1 movies this year (The Hangover, He's Just Not That Into You) than Julia Roberts, Russell Crowe, Steve Martin, Will Ferrell and, as of this weekend, Washington, Travolta and Murphy—combined.
• After following up its big opening weekend, with big midweek grosses, the $35 million The Hangover is estimated to surpass the $100 million mark today, only 10 days into its run.
• Among R-rated comedies, The Hangover has already moved past American Pie, Old School and others on the all-time list. The 40-Year-Old Virgin should fall any day to the Vegas misadventure.
• Up upped its domestic total to $187.2 million. To put that in perspective, the Pixar production has now made so much money here that it's covered its reported $175 million budget.
• For Washington, who's never been a popcorn-picture guy, Pelham 1 2 3's opening was pretty big—in fact, the third biggest of his career. Even for Travolta, with a Wild Hogs here and there on his resume, the subway thriller's performance was the fourth best of his career.
• For Murphy, with a Pluto Nash here and there on his resume, Imagine That wasn't the worst box-office thing that's ever happened to him. (See: Pluto Nash.)
• In the small-victories department, should estimates hold, Imagine That will represent an 8 percent opening-weekend improvement over Murphy's previous box-office bomb, 2008's Meet Dave.
• A funny thing happened to Land of the Lost ($9.2 million) in its second weekend: It actually held up OK, with ticket sales off only the standard 51 percent from its debut.
• The unfunny thing about Land of the Lost is that after two weekends it hasn't quite matched The Hangover's budget, much less its own $100 million price tag.
• In limited release, the man-on-the-moon movie Moon scored $145,218 at only eight theaters. Francis Ford Coppola's black-and-white Tetro was nearly as strong: $31,339 at two theaters.
Here's a complete look at the weekend's top-grossing films based on Friday-Sunday estimates as compiled by Exhibitor Relations:
- The Hangover, $33.4 million
- Up, $30.5 million
- The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, $25 million
- Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, $9.6 million
- Land of the Lost, $9.2 million
- Imagine That, $5.7 million
- Star Trek, $5.6 million
- Terminator Salvation, $4.7 million
- Angels & Demons, $4.2 million
- Drag Me to Hell, $3.9 million
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