With all the hype that surrounded its release, it should come as no surprise that The Dark Knight set an opening weekend record, with its $155 million take, topping the previous best of $151.1 million for Spider-Man 3 in May 2007. However, factoring in higher admission prices, Spider-Man 3 may have sold slightly more tickets than The Dark Knight.
At 2007’s average price of $6.88, Spider-Man 3 sold 21.96 million tickets over opening weekend. Media By Numbers estimates today’s average movie prices at $7.08, which means The Dark Knight would have sold 21.94 million tickets.
In the #2 spot is Mamma Mia, the ABBA-based musical starring Meryl Streep, which took in $27.6 million, below the expected $40 million. The weekend’s other new wide release, 20th Century Fox’s animated family flick Space Chimps, opened at No. 7 with $7.4 million.
Here is this weekend’s Top 12, courtesy of Yahoo.com -
| This Wk | Last Wk | Title | Weekend Gross | Cumulative Gross |
Rlse Wks |
# of Theaters |
|
| 1 | - | The Dark Knight | $155,340,000 | $155,340,000 | 1 | 4366 | |
| 2 | - | Mamma Mia! | $27,605,000 | $27,605,000 | 1 | 2976 | |
| 3 | 2 | Hancock | $14,000,000 | $191,504,000 | 3 | 3776 | |
| 4 | 3 | Journey to the Center of the Earth | $11,910,000 | $43,074,000 | 2 | 2830 | |
| 5 | 1 | Hellboy II: The Golden Army | $10,038,000 | $56,447,000 | 2 | 3212 | |
| 6 | 4 | WALL-E | $9,813,000 | $182,476,000 | 4 | 3310 | |
| 7 | - | Space Chimps | $7,350,000 | $7,350,000 | 1 | 2511 | |
| 8 | 5 | Wanted | $5,097,000 | $123,347,000 | 4 | 2433 | |
| 9 | 6 | Get Smart | $4,085,000 | $119,569,000 | 5 | 2135 | |
| 10 | 8 | Kung Fu Panda | $1,750,000 | $206,506,000 | 7 | 1505 | |
| 11 | 7 | Meet Dave | $1,635,000 | $9,374,000 | 2 | 3011 | |
| 12 | 11 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | $970,000 | $312,584,000 | 9 | 757 |
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