Premier Pop C Pop Culture News – Movies, Comics, Television, Books, Toys, Games, and More Twentieth Century Fox’s prequel X-Men: First Class shot to the head of the class with a $56 million debut at the domestic box office. While the well-reviewd film over took the blockbuster Hangover 2 to win the weekend and the studio to proclaim that a new era has begun for its marquee superhero franchise, First Class did not score as well as previous X-men outings.
The Top-12 grossing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, June 5, 2011 are as follows:
| Rank | Film Name | Distributor Name | Weekend Revenue | Cume Revenue | Locs | Loc Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | X-Men: First Class | 20th Century Fox | 56,000,000 | 56,000,000 | 3,641 | 15,380 |
| 2 | Hangover 2, The | Warner Bros. | 32,445,000 | 186,871,960 | 3,615 | 8,975 |
| 3 | Kung Fu Panda 2 | Paramount | 24,300,000 | 100,440,458 | 3,952 | 6,148 |
| 4 | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Ti | Disney | 18,010,000 | 190,256,277 | 3,966 | 4,541 |
| 5 | Bridesmaids | Universal | 12,128,445 | 107,254,800 | 2,919 | 4,155 |
| 6 | Thor | Paramount | 4,200,000 | 169,072,904 | 2,780 | 1,510 |
| 7 | Fast Five | Universal | 3,243,650 | 202,057,960 | 2,237 | 1,450 |
| 8 | Midnight in Paris | Sony Pictures Classics | 2,916,224 | 6,942,963 | 147 | 19,838 |
| 9 | Jumping The Broom | Sony | 865,000 | 35,927,391 | 589 | 1,468 |
| 10 | Something Borrowed | Warner Bros. | 835,000 | 36,660,317 | 688 | 1,213 |
| 11 | Rio | 20th Century Fox | 750,000 | 136,701,877 | 691 | 1,085 |
| 12 | Water For Elephants | 20th Century Fox | 700,000 | 55,738,678 | 572 | 1,223 |
