Christopher Nolan‘s latest mind-bending original project performed well beyond expectations for WB, making $60.4m (along with $15.6m internationally). The film performed very well in coastal cities but just average in the midwest. Word-of-mouth has been extremely positive so it will be interesting to track how this film does the next few months. It has free IMAX reign until Avatar gets re-released on August 27th.
Disney moved up the latest Bruckheimer production, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice to Wednesday, but it turned out to be one of his worst debuts in history. Raking in only $24m the last 5 days, the latest Nicolas Cage pic will need massive word-of-mouth to make profit. With Inception coming out of everyone’s mouth, it isn’t looking likely.
Despicable Me only suffered a minor drop of 42% coming in at 2nd place with $32m. Predators had a massive drop of 72.5% and is almost out of the top 10 after its 2nd week.
In limited releases, The Kids Are All Right and Cyrus are both holding strong coming in number 12 and 11, respectively. Next week the big releases are Salt and Ramona and Beezus while Valhalla Rising, Life During Wartime and Countdown to Zero are hitting limited theaters.
Check out the Top 10:
1. Inception – $60,400,000 (debut)
2. Despicable Me – $32,734,000; $118,365,000
3. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – $17,373,000; $24,461,000
4. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse – $13,500,000; $264,900,000
5. Toy Story 3 – $11,742,000; $362,709,000
6. Grown Ups – $10,000,000; $129,254,000
7. The Last Airbender – $7,450,000; $114,833,000
8. Predators – $6,800,000; $40,084,000
9. Knight & Day – $3,700,000; $69,209,000
10. The Karate Kid – $2,200,000; $169,202,000
Have you seen Inception yet? How many more times will you?