This weekend’s official box-office numbers are in and BOY! What a close call. Date Night scraped in to secure the number one spot for Fox with $27.1 million in the good green, a touch more than Clash Of The Titans, which managed to bank $26.8 in its second week out there. The Warner Brothers movie now has over $110 million total. In at three, again a very close call was Dreamworks How To Train Your Dragon, which managed to gather a nice $25.3 million over the three days.
Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too and Disney’s The Last Song rounded out the top five.
This week sees the release of the highly anticipated Kick-Ass, which opens to cinemas on Thursday night, along with Death At A Funeral, a Neil LaBute film starring Chris Rock. Check back next week to see how they all did.
Here’s this week’s top ten in full.
| Film Name | Distributor Name | Weekend Revenue | Cume Revenue | Locations | Location Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date Night | 20th Century Fox | 27100000 | 27100000 | 0 | 0 |
| Clash Of The Titans | Warner Bros. | 26875000 | 110468315 | 3777 | 29247 |
| How To Train Your Dragon | Paramount | 25350000 | 133890903 | 4060 | 32978 |
| Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too | Lionsgate | 11000000 | 48519660 | 2155 | 22514 |
| Last Song, The | Disney | 10018000 | 42440870 | 2673 | 15877 |
| Alice In Wonderland | Disney | 5615000 | 319322788 | 2980 | 107155 |
| Hot Tub Time Machine | MGM | 5430000 | 36968628 | 2771 | 13341 |
| Bounty Hunter, The | Sony | 4300000 | 56001466 | 3118 | 17960 |
| Diary Of A Wimpy Kid | 20th Century Fox | 4100000 | 53756727 | 2842 | 18915 |
| Letters To God | Vivendi | 1250000 | 1250000 | 0 | 0 |
| Shutter Island | Paramount | 885000 | 125001193 | 1356 | 92183 |
| Avatar | 20th Century Fox | 870000 | 743714322 | 511 | 1455409 |
© Rentrak Corporation 2010
yielee
Apr 19, 2010 at 2:31 am
Date Night was Number 2!!!
“Clash of the Titans came in at $26.6 million, slightly less than its $26.9 million Sunday estimate, but Date Night had the biggest overestimation: its actual gross was $25.2 million versus the $27.1 million that its studio, 20th Century Fox, reported Sunday morning.” – boxofficemojo.com
They shouldn’t allow studios to get away with these kinds of tricks where they overestimate a movie so they get free press. It really changes your movie choices for the upcoming weekend. They cost that other studio lots of revenue. They should at least say they’re $ORRY.