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Weekend Box Office: May 27 – 29

#1 The Hangover Part II from Warner Brothers debuts at #1 with an opening weekend gross of $85.9 million in 3615 theaters. Budget was $80 million.

#2 Kung Fu Panda 2 from Paramount/DreamWorks debuts at #2 with an opening weekend gross of $47.6 million in 3925 theaters. Budget was $150 million.

#3 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides from Buena Vista drops from #1 to #3 with a weekend gross of $39.8 million (-55.8%) in 4164 theaters (+9). Total gross to date is $153.4 million. Budget was $250 million.

#4 Bridesmaids from Universal drops from #2 to #4 with a weekend gross of $16.5 million (-20.7%) in 2958 theaters (+21). Total gross to date is $85.1 million. Budget was $32.5 million.

#5 Thor from Paramount drops from #3 to #5 with a weekend gross of $9.5 million (-38.3%) in 3296 theaters (-628). Total gross to date is $159.8 million. Budget was $150 million.

#6 Fast Five from Universal drops from #4 to #6 with a weekend gross of $6.4 million (-39.4%) in 2981 theaters (-641). Total gross to date is $195.8 million. Budget was $125 million.

Rounding out the top 12 are:

#7 Midnight in Paris jumps from #13 to #7 with a weekend gross of $1.9 million (+222.1%) in 58 theaters (+52). Total gross to date is $2.8 million. Budget was $30 million.

#8 Something Borrowed holds at #8 with a weekend gross of $1.8 million (-47.1%) in 1440 theaters (-1166). Total gross to date is $34.7 million. Budget was $35 million.

#9 Jumping the Broom drops from #7 to #9 with a weekend gross of $1.8 million (-50.8%) in 939 theaters (-533). Total gross to date is $34.1 million. Budget was $6.6 million.

#10 Rio drops from #6 to #10 with a weekend gross of $1.8 million (-61.5%) in 1672 theaters (-921). Total gross to date is $134.8 million. Budget was $90 million.

#11 Priest drops from #5 to #11 with a weekend gross of $1.7 million (-62.7%) in 1918 theaters (-946). Total gross to date is $27.3 million. Budget was $60 million.

#12 Water for Elephants drops from #9 to #12 with a weekend gross of $1.0 million (-50.1%) in 794 theaters (-1100). Total gross to date is $54.4 million. Budget was $38 million.

The combined gross of the top 12 movies this weekend was $216.2 million (+36.2%).

The new movie debuting in wide release this weekend is X-Men: First Class.

A note on “Gross”: On average, studios will earn approximately 55 percent of the final gross.

Sources: Box Office Mojo

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Back Seat Box Office #36 Results and Voice Mail

Tony’s Moment of Stupidity:  Mark J DID actually provide picks this week.  Unfortunately, I turned on this cool feature in Google Labs which allows me to reply to an email and archive it with a single button.  I pressed that when answering a question of his instead of hitting the REPLY button.  I totally missed his email.

I’ve update the leaderboard.  For the record: There were ELEVEN people that had the same picks this week, as Mark J also picked the same sequence as the hosts.  Mark got a 22 for the week, combined with his previous average of 22 means his average stays the same, as does his position on the leaderboard.

This mistake was all mine and, for the record, I’ve turned off the Archive and Reply feature.  Apparently, I’m the reason we don’t have nice things.

Thanks to the following Voice Mail Contributors:

  • Art
  • Father Beast and Menolly
  • Tad
  • William

Congrats to Jeff and Crazy Jeff for nabbing 25s this week.