Glourious Box Office
In the US: INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS shoots to #1 with $38.1m (Tarantino's best ever opening in the US)... knocking sci-fi District 9 into second place, which lost 51% of its revenue in week 2... Robert Rodriguez's kid's film SHORTS debuts at #6 with a poor $6.41m... and two new releases didn't even enter the top 10: POST GRAD at #11 and X GAMES 3D – THE MOVIE at #19 with just $837,216...
US TOP 10
(-) 1. Inglourious Basterds $38.1m
(1) 2. District 9 $18.2m
(2) 3. G.I Joe: The Rise Of Cobra $12.2m
(3) 4. The Time Traveler's Wife $9.74m
(4) 5. Julie & Julia $8.8m
(-) 6. Shorts $6.41m
(5) 7. G-Force $4.11m
(7) 8. Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince $3.48m
(8) 9. The Ugly Truth $2.77m
(6) 10. The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard $2.71m
In the UK: Quentin Tarantino gets his biggest ever UK opening with INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, taking £3.5m to comfortably take the #1 spot (although it must be noted that it opened two days earlier than its competition)... the Wayans' Brothers' latest spoof movie DANCE FLICK dies a death at the box-office with a pitiful £462,000 to take #6... but there was worse news for a slew of new releases last week: comedy BANDSLAM debuted at #12 with £171,000... Robert Rodriguez's kid's movie SHORTS only took £171,000 across 342 screens (placing #13)... an ignoble defeat that looks rather good compared to I LOVE YOU, BETH COOPER, which made £123,000 and entered the chart at #17!
UK TOP 10
(-) 1. Inglourious Basterds £3.5m
(1) 2. The Time Traveler's Wife £915k
(3) 3. G-Force £654k
(2) 4. Aliens In The Attic £642k
(4) 5. Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince £598k
(-) 6. Dance Flick £462k
(5) 7. G.I Joe: The Rise Of Cobra £455k
(6) 8. The Ugly Truth £451k
(8) 9. Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs £336k
(9) 10. The Proposal £270k
UK RELEASES THIS WEEK
THE FINAL DESTINATION
Horror thriller. After a teen's premonition of a deadly race-car crash helps saves the lives of his peers, Death sets out to collect those who evaded their end.
Director: David R. Ellis Starring: Bobby Compo, Shantel VanSanten, Nick Zano, Haley Webb, Mykelti Williamson & Krista Allen
Tomatometer: 14% (Rotten; based on 7 reviews)
FUNNY PEOPLE
Comedy drama. When seasoned comedian George Simmons learns of his terminal, inoperable health condition, his desire to form a genuine friendship cause him to take a relatively green performer under his wing as his opening act.
Director: Judd Apatow Starring: Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann, Eric Bana, Jonah Hill & Jason Schwartzman
Tomatometer: 65% (Fresh; based on 163 reviews) "Funny People features the requisite humor, as well as considerable emotional depth, resulting in Judd Apatow's most mature film to date."
THE HURT LOCKER
Action drama. Iraq. Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow Starring: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse, Evangeline Lilly & Christian Camargo
Tomatometer: 98% (Fresh; based on 131 reviews) "A well-acted, intensely shot, action filled war epic, Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker is thus far the best of the recent dramatizations of the Iraq War."
