Update: When the final numbers came in on Monday morning, Date Night’s victory was overturned, with Clash taking the top spot. “Date Night” bowed in the No. 2 position, as things turned out, with a weekend tally of $25.2 million.
A lackluster weekend brought “Date Night” and “Clash Of The Titans” battling for the top spot until the last moment, when “Date Night” took the crown by a mere $225,000.
The twelve estimated top producing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, April 11, 2010 include:
Rank | Title | Distributor | Weekend Gross | Cume | Locations | |
1 | Date Night | 20th Century Fox | $27,100,000 | $27,100,000 | 3374 | |
2 | Clash Of The Titans | Warner Bros. | $26,875,000 | $110,468,315 | 3802 | |
3 | How To Train Your Dragon | Paramount | $25,350,000 | $133,890,903 | 4007 | |
4 | Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too | Lionsgate | $11,000,000 | $48,519,660 | 2155 | |
5 | Last Song, The | Disney | $10,018,000 | $42,440,870 | 2674 | |
6 | Alice In Wonderland | Disney | $5,615,000 | $319,322,788 | 2530 | |
7 | Hot Tub Time Machine | MGM | $5,430,000 | $36,968,628 | 2611 | |
8 | Bounty Hunter, The | Sony | $4,300,000 | $56,001,466 | 2901 | |
9 | Diary Of A Wimpy Kid | 20th Century Fox | $4,100,000 | $53,756,727 | 2453 | |
10 | Letters To God | Vivendi | $1,250,000 | $1,250,000 | 897 | |
11 | Shutter Island | Paramount | $885,000 | $125,001,193 | 869 | |
12 | Avatar | 20th Century Fox | $870,000 | $743,714,322 | 454 | |