This Weekend’s Movies

The twelve estimated top producing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of 9:30AM Pacific on Sunday, June 13 by Rentrak Theatrical include:

   Rank  Title                                 Weekend Gross  Locations

   1    The Incredible Hulk                    $54,537,800    3505
   2    Kung Fu Panda                          $34,321,000    4136
   3    The Happening                          $30,500,000    2986
   4    You Don't Mess With The Zohan          $16,400,000    3466
   5    Indiana Jones Kingdom Crystal Skull    $13,547,000    3804
   6    Sex And The City                       $10,185,000    3155
   7    Iron Man                               $5,130,000     2403
   8    The Strangers                          $4,097,000     2410
   9    Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian   $3,004,000     2308
   10   What Happens In Vegas                  $1,700,000     1422
   11   The Visitor                            $450,000       254
   12   Baby Mama                              $407,700       453

Weekend of 06/13/2008 to 06/15/2008 (C) 2008 by Rentrak Corporation

I helped along #3 and #4 this weekend. We went to see “You Don’t Mess With The Zohan” on Friday night after Brian’s birthday dinner with friends. Everyone but Brian liked it. Then last night, Brian and I went to see “The Happening” alone last night.

We have both generally enjoyed M. Night Shyamalan’s films but this one really sucked. I am not the pickiest moviegoer but I had real problems with this one. Mark Wahlberg, who did great as a porn star in Boogie Nights, was simply horribly horribly unbelievable as as high school science teacher.  So much of the movie was moved along by his character’s deductions and reasoning that it pretty much spoiled it for me and for several other people I’ve talked to.