The post-weekend box office drop, ‘Kung Fu Panda’ numbers still strong

Ah, the post-weekend box office drop. Will the new movies stay around or will they be gone by next week? Well, ‘Kung Fu Panda’ is still going strong, that’s for sure.

1. Kung Fu Panda
Saturday and Sunday: $23,576,429 million
Monday and Tuesday: $8,309,544 million
Drop: 64.75%

2. The Happening
Saturday and Sunday: $17,425,208 million
Monday and Tuesday: $5,582,216 million
Drop: 68%

3. The Incredible Hulk
Saturday and Sunday: $33,945,925 million
Monday and Tuesday: $10,812,255 million
Drop: 68.1%

Not only is ‘Kung Fu Panda’ showing its staying power. The DreamWorks animation also had an amazing second weekend. With just a slight difference between the first weekend, it took the second place at the box office. Its family friendly nature sure helped the movie between all the teen driven blockbusters. The 64.8% drop makes it the third slowest drop on our self-invented drop-chart. No, Jack Black isn’t going anywhere.

Surprisingly, ‘The Happening’ kept up well too. But this might have to do with the slow Sunday it had, which caused just a small drop on Monday and Tuesday. It could of course be possible for the movie to have another good weekend, but we’ll just have to see. If it does good numbers the coming weekend, it proves how thrillers are just mildly affected by reviews — if at all.

‘The Incredible Hulk’ is showing some nice legs too. With numbers like this it could very well beat the two newcomers this weekend, ‘Get Smart’ and ‘The Love Guru.’ We’ll be taking a quick look at the projections for those two later today.

It looks like all the three movies will stay around for a little longer. It will be interesting to see if the two new comedies will compete with ‘Kung Fu Panda’ for viewers. Currently the biggest drop we saw was by ‘Speed Racer,’ dropping 84% after its release. And the strongest performance was by the girls. ‘Sex and the City’ dropped just 61.5% earlier this month and is still doing more than $1.5 mill per day (even $1.6 mill yesterday).