Box-Office Wrap-Up: May. 16 – May. 18, 2008

Yikes. Sorry Mouse House. The crazy thing is the original made $18k per theater while this was at $14k. This proves my point from three years ago; that was not a good movie. However, this one is – does that mean the second weekend will be a bit better? Or was it simply a December vs. May thing? Mysteries abound here.

Result: 56.5 million (My rank: #1, $20.1m off)

A very nice third weekend for Iron Man. A 39% bleed means the people have spoken… and they dig it.

Result: 31.2 million (My rank: #2, $3.8m off)

Obviously it did much better than I projected. Probably the ratio of folk that grew up in abusive households.

Result: 13.8 million (My rank: #3, $4.1m off)

Almost a 60% drop in weekend two. This will go down as the biggest financial fiasco of the year.

Result: 7.6 million (My rank: #4, $1.9m off)

Less than a million off! Whoooo!

Result: 4.59 million (My rank: #6, $.99m off)

Hard to know what to make of this. It's raked in $46m worldwide so far on a budget of $40m. Maybe the unrrated DVD will offer even more Busy Phillips for my buck.

Result: 4.50 million (My rank: #5, $.2m off)

This received a ton of buzz but it's only made around $74m worldwide so it probably won't hit the mythical triple digits.

Result: 2.5 million (My rank: #7, $0.6m off)

The budget was $12m? What did they spend it on? Drugs?

Result: 1.8 million (My rank: #8, $0.5m off)

No budget released here but all that maekup to make the monkey king had to have cost a mint.

Result: 1.0 million (My rank: #9, $0.2m off)

It didn't even take $700k to crack the top ten. Sad stuff, not really worthy of Oracle introspection.

Result: .687 million (My rank: Not Ranked)