Genre films have continued to do well at this summer’s box office.
‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ debuted this past week and took in $97.8 million for the weekend. It’s total domestic take now stands at $180.6 million with a worldwide box office of $418 million. I’m sure they’ve already started working on that next script.
Retro-science fiction film ‘Super 8′ dropped just one place to fifth taking in an additional $7.4 million to bring its domestic total to $110 million and its worldwide total to $155 million.
Warner Bros./DC Comics’ ‘Green Lantern’ fell to seventh place taking in $6.5 million. It’s worldwide box office now sits at just $136.9 million.
Marvel’s ‘X-Men: First Class’, dropped out of the top 10 to eleventh taking in $2.9 million to bring its worldwide box office total to $335 million.
Disney’s ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ dropped to thirteenth taking in an additional $2.1 million to cross the magical $1 billion mark.
1. ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ $97.8
2. ‘Cars 2’ $26.2
3. ‘Bad Teacher’ $14.5
4. ‘Larry Crowne’ $13.0
5. ‘Super 8’ $7.9
6. ‘Monte Carlo’ $7.4
7. ‘Green Lantern’ $6.5
8. ‘Mr. Popper’s Penguins’ $5.5
9. ‘Bridesmaids’ $3.6
10. ‘Midnight in Paris’ $3.5
11. ‘X-Men: First Class’ $2.9
12. ‘The Hangover Part II’ $2.3
13. ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: OST’ $2.1
14. ‘Kung Fu Panda 2’ $1.6
15. ‘The Tree of Life’ $1.0
