{"id":2880,"date":"2010-06-21T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=2880"},"modified":"2018-02-15T20:01:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T04:01:50","slug":"box-office-toystory3-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/box-office-toystory3-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Box Office: Pretty Much What You&#8217;d Expect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weekend panned out like pretty much everyone (myself included) expected it to: &#8216;Toy Story 3&#8217; made (deservedly) a whole bunch of money while &#8216;Jonah Hex&#8217; made (deservedly) very little. But the story, and the surprise, was in how much \u2013 or how very little \u2013 each movie made. The devil&#8217;s in the details. It&#8217;s in the weekend box office report, too.<\/p>\n<h6><!--more--><\/h6>\n<p>First off, the good. Disney\/Pixar&#8217;s &#8216;<strong>Toy Story 3<\/strong>,&#8217; perhaps the most thematically and emotionally complex entry in the famed &#8216;Toy Story&#8217; franchise, made a whole bunch of stinkin&#8217; money and took the top spot. How much stinkin&#8217; money, you ask? Well, $109 million. That makes it the biggest Pixar opening weekend ever. The previous Pixar record holder was Brad Bird&#8217;s &#8216;The Incredibles,&#8217; which bowed in 2004 to the tune of $70.5 million. Of course, it should be taken into consideration that with the 3-D price hike, another $18 million can be tacked on for every $100 million the movie makes. Still, this was a great opening by anybody&#8217;s estimation. It was the third biggest opening weekend of the year behind Tim Burton&#8217;s &#8216;Alice in Wonderland&#8217; and &#8216;Iron Man 2.&#8217; What&#8217;s nice is that it&#8217;s an actual, you know, quality movie, and deserves every penny it makes. From what I&#8217;ve been hearing from &#8220;everyday&#8221; folks, they&#8217;re loving it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/jonah-hex-2shot-660.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/jonah-hex-2shot-660.jpg\" title=\"I blame you for this.\" width=\"175\" height=\"223\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2892\" \/><\/a>Now, on to the bad. Specifically, Warner Bros.&#8217; borderline unreleasable supernatural western &#8216;<strong>Jonah Hex<\/strong>.&#8217; The doomed DC Comics adaptation, which saw numerous behind-the-scenes difficulties, came in at <strong>EIGHTH<\/strong> place. That&#8217;s #8. With a bullet. While the movie really, truly sucks, a part of me still figured that some people out there would want to see a disfigured Josh Brolin wreak bloody (but not too bloody \u2013 it&#8217;s PG-13 after all) havoc. But nope. No way. With just $5 million, this thing should be out on DVD next week. That&#8217;s kind of a shame. If you squint your eyes just right and use your imagination, you can see the movie &#8216;Jonah Hex&#8217; <em>could have been<\/em>. Should I start my online petition for a director&#8217;s cut now?<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the Top 10 looks a lot like last week.<\/p>\n<p>The surprisingly strong &#8216;<strong>Karate Kid<\/strong>&#8216; remake hung tough with another $29 million dollars, to come in at #2. It&#8217;s already passed the $100 million mark. Sony is already actively developing a sequel. Last week&#8217;s other big release, &#8216;<strong>The A-Team<\/strong>,&#8217; dropped less than 50%, which is pretty good considering the critical response and what I can assume was less-than-enthusiastic word-of-mouth. The macho action movie may have benefited from a Father&#8217;s Day bump, making another $13.7 million for the third spot. Besides that, there&#8217;s not much else to report. &#8216;<strong>Sex and the City 2<\/strong>&#8216; fell out of the Top 10, probably because the Top 10 didn&#8217;t match its shoes. &#8216;<strong>Iron Man 2<\/strong>&#8216; came in at #9 and has finally made its way to $300 million.<\/p>\n<p>As for next week, the studio is predicting dire things for the Tom Cruise\/Cameron Diaz spy flick &#8216;Knight and Day.&#8217; I saw it last week and liked it quite a bit. My review is forthcoming, but I really think audiences are going to have fun with this gonzo action romp. Plus, there has got to be some section of the population not wildly excited about next week&#8217;s release of the Adam Sandler comedy &#8216;Grown Ups,&#8217; which feels like one of the movies his character from &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/2728\/funnypeople.html\">Funny People<\/a>&#8216; would have starred in.<\/p>\n<h5>The Tippy Top 10:<\/h5>\n<p>01 &#8216;Toy Story 3&#8217; (Disney\/Pixar) &#8211; $109 million<\/p>\n<p>02 &#8216;The Karate Kid&#8217; (Sony) &#8211; $29 million<\/p>\n<p>03 &#8216;The A-Team&#8217; (Fox) &#8211; $13.7 million<\/p>\n<p>04 &#8216;Get Him to the Greek&#8217; (Universal) &#8211; $6.1 million<\/p>\n<p>05 &#8216;Shrek Forever After&#8217; (DreamWorks Animation) &#8211; $5.5 million<\/p>\n<p>06 &#8216;Prince of Persia&#8217; (Disney) &#8211; $5.2 million<\/p>\n<p>07 &#8216;Killers&#8217; (Lionsgate) &#8211; $5.1 million<\/p>\n<p>08 &#8216;Jonah Hex&#8217; (Warner Bros) &#8211; $5 million<\/p>\n<p>09 &#8216;Iron Man 2&#8217; (Paramount\/Marvel) &#8211; $2.6 million<\/p>\n<p>10 &#8216;Marmaduke&#8217; (Fox) &#8211; $2.4 million<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weekend panned out like pretty much everyone (myself included) expected it to: &#8216;Toy Story 3&#8217; made (deservedly) a whole bunch of money while &#8216;Jonah Hex&#8217; made (deservedly) very little. 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