The weekend in a graph
May 5th, 2008 at 9:00 am

Weekend box office

Taking a little preview of what’s to come at our weekly box office roundup, here’s what happened this weekend. If you’ve been reading the site, you definitely know about ‘Iron Man’ crushing its competition. So let’s not talk about that. But if we take a look at number two, we see ‘Made of Honor’ still made a decent $15.5 million. I say decent, because with a $40 million budget, Columbia Pictures can’t be too happy about it. A metacritic.com score of 3.7 didn’t help and probably got some girls to join their boyfriend to see ‘Iron Man’ instead.

Others may have chosen to see ‘Baby Mama,’ which was received a little better by the critics last week. It made another $10 million this weekend, making it profitable if you don’t consider marketing.

We already saw how ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’ was going to have better legs in our weekly box office roundup. And it managed to top ‘Harold & Kumar 2′ in its third weekend, with a big $6 million. ‘Harold & Kumar 2′ is probably having its last good week, also doing $6 million. Not that New Line Cinema should be sad about it. The movie already did twice their budget of $12 million and is tracking to do double of what its prequel did.

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‘Iron Man’ box office facts and rumors [upd]
May 3rd, 2008 at 5:45 am

Iron Man Box Office Heaven

Ok, so there are a lot of box office numbers floating around for the movie with all the buzz this opening weekend, a little film called ‘Iron Man.’ We already brought you the forecast, predictions, early numbers and overseas estimates, but here is really all we have for the iron man thus far.

Budget estimate: $186 million
Marketing estimate: $50 million

US theaters this weekend: 4,105
US predictions for the weekend: ranging from $70 to $125 million

US Thursday box office estimate: $5.2 million
US Friday box office estimate: $35 million (incl. $1.7m Thursday night)
US Saturday box office estimate: $38 million
Overseas estimate for the weekend (57 territories): $97 million

Worldwide estimate for the weekend: $201 million

Highest gross outside US: Mexico with $4 million (2 days)

Recent Fandango ticket sales for ‘Iron Man’: 81%

Metacritic.com score: 7.8 (35 reviews)
Rotten Tomatoes score: 94% fresh
IMDB score: 8.3 (3,102 votes)

Broken legs during shooting: 1 (Gwyneth Paltrow)

Loser this weekend: ‘Made of Honor’ (kinda, only $15.5m)

Almost confirmed release date for ‘Iron Man 2′: summer 2010

If I missed anything, let me know.

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