Premier Pop C Pop Culture News – Movies, Comics, Television, Books, Toys, Games, and More J.J. Abrams’ Super 8 opened to $37 million at the domestic box office to take the top spot dueing a weekend that saw a major drop in box office receipts. After huge weekends from ‘Hangover 2’ and ‘X-men: First Class” only a last minute marketing push by Paramount allowed ‘Super 8’ to bring in as much as it did.
The Top-12 grossing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, June 12, 2011 are s follows:
| Rank | Film Name | Distributor Name | Weekend Revenue | Cume Revenue | Locs | Loc Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Super 8 | Paramount | 37,000,000 | 38,000,000 | 3,379 | 10,949 |
| 2 | X-Men: First Class | 20th Century Fox | 25,000,000 | 98,894,349 | 3,692 | 6,771 |
| 3 | Hangover 2, The | Warner Bros. | 18,500,000 | 216,560,132 | 3,675 | 5,034 |
| 4 | Kung Fu Panda 2 | Paramount | 16,635,000 | 126,905,074 | 3,929 | 4,233 |
| 5 | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Ti | Disney | 10,846,000 | 208,773,494 | 3,433 | 3,159 |
| 6 | Bridesmaids | Universal | 10,153,950 | 123,903,525 | 2,922 | 3,475 |
| 7 | Judy Moody And The Not Bummer Summer | Relativity Media | 6,267,000 | 6,267,000 | 2,524 | 2,482 |
| 8 | Midnight in Paris | Sony Pictures Classics | 6,146,165 | 14,224,638 | 944 | 6,510 |
| 9 | Thor | Paramount | 2,370,000 | 173,599,508 | 1,782 | 1,329 |
| 10 | Fast Five | Universal | 1,714,410 | 205,081,285 | 1,329 | 1,290 |
| 11 | Tree Of Life, The | Fox Searchlight | 875,126 | 2,409,772 | 47 | 18,619 |
| 12 | Rio | 20th Century Fox | 681,000 | 137,791,728 | 527 | 1,292 |
