Premier Pop C Pop Culture News – Movies, Comics, Television, Books, Toys, Games, and More Warner Bros.’ Green Lantern may have won the box office race with a $52.7 million debut, but the 3D superhero pic fell steeply on Saturday, dashing the studio’s hopes for a launch upwards of $55 million. It’s promising Friday launch was cut short by bad word-of-mouth which kept audiences home for the Father’s Day weekend.
The Top-12 grossing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, June 19, 2011, are as follows:
| Rank | Film Name | Distributor Name | Weekend Revenue | Cume Revenue | Locs | Loc Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Green Lantern | Warner Bros. | 52,685,000 | 52,685,000 | 3,816 | 13,806 |
| 2 | Super 8 | Paramount | 21,250,000 | 72,780,789 | 3,408 | 6,235 |
| 3 | Mr. Popper’s Penguins | 20th Century Fox | 18,200,000 | 18,200,000 | 3,339 | 5,450 |
| 4 | X-Men: First Class | 20th Century Fox | 11,500,000 | 119,924,562 | 3,375 | 3,407 |
| 5 | Hangover 2, The | Warner Bros. | 9,635,000 | 232,674,278 | 3,460 | 2,784 |
| 6 | Kung Fu Panda 2 | Paramount | 8,700,000 | 143,342,797 | 3,469 | 2,507 |
| 7 | Bridesmaids | Universal | 7,487,430 | 136,840,420 | 2,573 | 2,910 |
| 8 | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Ti | Disney | 6,236,000 | 220,336,253 | 2,742 | 2,274 |
| 9 | Midnight in Paris | Sony Pictures Classics | 5,237,400 | 21,799,214 | 1,038 | 5,045 |
| 10 | Judy Moody And The Not Bummer Summer | Relativity Media | 2,241,000 | 11,166,842 | 2,524 | 887 |
| 11 | Thor | Paramount | 1,145,000 | 176,111,002 | 875 | 1,308 |
| 12 | Tree Of Life, The | Fox Searchlight | 1,115,000 | 3,851,432 | 114 | 9,780 |
