“Shrek Forever After” launched slower than most expected but still managed to scare up a first place finish at the weekend box office. The family comedy topping domestic rankings with just $71.3 million in estimated weekend boxoffice. T”Iron Man 2″ held on to take second place while action-comedy “MacGruber” failed to ignite audience, becoming the latest in a long line of Lorne Michaels’ Saturday Night Live-based flops.
The twelve estimated top producing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, May 23, 2010 include:
Rank | Title | Distributor | Weekend Gross | Cume | Locations | |
1 | Shrek Forever After | Paramount | $71,250,000 | $71,250,000 | 4359 | |
2 | Iron Man 2 | Paramount | $26,600,000 | $251,264,803 | 4177 | |
3 | Robin Hood | Universal | $18,699,175 | $66,095,645 | 3505 | |
4 | Letters To Juliet | Summit Entertainment | $9,100,000 | $27,426,241 | 2975 | |
5 | Just Wright | Fox Searchlight | $4,225,000 | $14,631,640 | 1831 | |
6 | MacGruber | Universal | $4,145,375 | $4,145,375 | 2551 | |
7 | Date Night | 20th Century Fox | $2,825,000 | $90,660,314 | 1869 | |
8 | A Nightmare On Elm Street | Warner Bros. | $2,285,000 | $59,931,112 | 2125 | |
9 | How To Train Your Dragon | Paramount | $1,850,000 | $210,939,707 | 1751 | |
10 | Kites | Reliance Big Entertainment | $952,682 | $952,682 | 208 | |
11 | The Back-Up Plan | CBS Films | $900,000 | $35,876,777 | 1079 | |
12 | Babies | Focus Features | $707,813 | $5,084,942 | 395 | |