May 26, 2012

Thor Hammers Out Second Week of Box Office Victory

by Rebecca Pahle | Published May 16, 2011

Thor held on to the top spot at the box office last weekend, but it had some competition from Paul Feig, Judd Apatow and some bridesmaids. The superhero movie made $34.5 million over the weekend, bringing its total gross to $119.2 million, but the raunchy R-rated comedy’s opening weekend take of $24.4 million was higher than most people expected considering. . . well, considering Bridesmaids is a raunchy R-rated comedy about bridesmaids. Fast Five fell one spot to number three, with its weekend gross of $19.5 million bringing its total so far to $168.7 million. Rounding out the top five were new release Priest (weekend gross $14.5 million) and Rio (weekend gross $8 million, total gross $124.9 million).

Other new releases last weekend were Everything Must Go ($825,100), Hesher ($126,811), Go For It! ($125,000), L’amour fou ($35,000), The First Grader ($22,568), Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ ($5,450), Skateland ($5,165) and How to Live Forever ($3,400), all out in limited release.

Next weekend’s sole wide release--and certain box office champion, sorry Thor, start packing--is Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Out in limited release are Louder Than a Bomb, 35 and Ticking, Bloodworth, Cost of a Soul, The Lion of Judah (which is about “a bold lamb (Judah) and his stable friends [who] try to avoid the sacrificial alter [sic] the week preceding the crucifixion of Christ.” No, really.), Ranchero and Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, which opened the Cannes Film Festival last week.