Robert Downey Jr’s Iron Man proved to be more than Russel Crowe’s Robin Hood could handle as the two went head to head at the box office. “Iron Man 2” held on to the top spot, relegating the medieval archer to second place. “Robin Hood” struck the lower edge of its expected target with an estimated $37.1 million in opening box office, with “Iron Man 2″pulling in $53 million.
The twelve estimated top producing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, May 16, 2010 include:
Rank | Title | Distributor | Week | Weekend Gross | Cume | Locations | |
1 | Iron Man 2 | Paramount | 2 | $53,000,000 | $212,159,871 | 4390 | |
2 | Robin Hood | Universal | 1 | $37,114,285 | $37,114,285 | 3503 | |
3 | Letters To Juliet | Summit Entertainment | 1 | $13,750,000 | $13,750,000 | 2968 | |
4 | Just Wright | Fox Searchlight | 1 | $8,500,000 | $8,500,000 | 1831 | |
5 | How To Train Your Dragon | Paramount | 8 | $5,120,000 | $207,764,160 | 2620 | |
6 | Nightmare On Elm Street, A | Warner Bros. | 3 | $4,700,000 | $56,109,405 | 3075 | |
7 | Date Night | 20th Century Fox | 6 | $4,000,000 | $86,699,107 | 2481 | |
8 | Back-Up Plan, The | CBS Films | 4 | $2,465,000 | $34,202,302 | 2497 | |
9 | Furry Vengeance | Summit Entertainment | 3 | $2,300,000 | $15,146,964 | 2695 | |
10 | Clash Of The Titans | Warner Bros. | 7 | $1,255,000 | $160,151,351 | 1300 | |
11 | Death At A Funeral | Sony | 5 | $1,150,000 | $40,507,816 | 1062 | |
12 | Babies | Focus Features | 2 | $1,003,966 | $3,889,522 | 534 | |
Weekend of 5/14/10 to 5/16/10 | |||||||