Big Weekend At The Box Office
Monday, August 03, 2009 10:17 AM
 'Funny People' is #1 at the box office, 'Harry Potter' stays close in 2nd. Funny People is the best thing Adam Sandler’s done in 10 years and it still made $11 million less than I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry in its opening weekend, which is why I don’t clean up dog poop and purposely piss on the seat in public restrooms. You deserve this, America. Regardless, its $23.4 million debut was good enough for number one on this year’s worst box office weekend overall. But those sh*tty box office numbers are good news for anyone hoping to see some flaming turds get stomped, and get stomped they did. The $45 million budgeted (yet oddly direct-to-DVD-looking) Aliens in the Attic debuted at $7.8 million — suck it, Fox — while Jerry Bruckheimer’s $150 million G-Force (which had three fart jokes in the trailer) still has a long way to go with its total now at $66.5 mil. Fingers crossed that continues to go down faster than Brett Ratner on a plate of taquitos. Katherine Heigl"" target="_blank"> Katherine Heigl’s epic snatch napkin The Ugly Truth also fell 53% in its second weekend, down to $13 million. Meanwhile Harry Potter performed respectably, and I managed to totally not care about it for the second week in a row. | 1 | Funny People | $23,440,000 | $7,793 | $23,440,000 | | 2 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | $17,700,000 (-39.9%) | $4,029 | $255,463,000 | | 3 | G-Force | $17,058,000 (-46.2%) | $4,614 | $66,461,000 | | 4 | The Ugly Truth | $13,000,000 (-52.9%) | $4,511 | $54,481,000 | | 5 | Aliens in the Attic | $7,800,000 | $2,511 | $7,800,000 | | 6 | Orphan | $7,250,000 (-43.7%) | $2,636 | $26,791,000 | | 7 | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | $5,300,000 (-37.0%) | $1,922 | $181,843,000 | | 8 | The Hangover | $5,080,000 (-21.4%) | $2,453 | $255,776,000 | | 9 | The Proposal | $4,848,000 (-24.0%) | $1,991 | $148,882,000 | | 10 | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | $4,600,000 (-43.4%) | $1,752 | $388,101,000 |
That The Hangover is still in the top ten in its ninth week is pretty insane. If you haven’t seen it, you’re officially captain of the lame-ohs. [via CHUD, LA Times, BoxOfficeMojo] GET MORE LIKE THIS AT FILMDRUNK.COM !
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