Box Office: Summer 2008 Wrap-Up

Summer movie season has sadly come to an end, and it shows on the totals for this weekend, in which no movie made more than 7 million dollars. Instead of reporting about this weekend, I'll be posting the summer of 2008 biggest films - those that managed to cross over the 100 million dollar mark.

1- The Dark Knight- $512.2 Million

2- Iron Man- $317.9 Million
3- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull- $315.9 Million

4- Hancock- $227.4 Million

5- Wall-E- $219.5 Million

6- Kung Fu Panda- $213.8 Million

7- Horton Hears a Who!- $154.5 Million

8- Sex and the City- $152.5 Million

9- The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian- $141.6 Million

10- Mamma Mia!- $136.2 Million

11- The Incredible Hulk- $134.5 Million

12- Wanted- $134.1 Million

13- Get Smart- $128.4 Million

14- The Mummy: Tomb of the Emperor Dragon- $100.4 Million

Weekend Box Office Report: The Love Guru Flops

When a movie is bad, you just know it. Despite having a massive amount of promotion over the past three months, The Love Guru starring Mike Myers, Jessica Alba and Justin Timberlake only managed to collect an extremely dissapointing 14 million dollars on its opening weekend, debuting just at #4! Sad. The movie that did make a high debut at #1 was Get Smart, which pulled in a great $40 million, this movie actually had little promotion compared to that of The Love Guru, yet it made quite a nice debut on top.

Moving on to #2, we find Kung Fu Panda, film that on its third week collected $21.7 million for a total of $155 million so far - impressive.

The Incredible Hulk falls to #3 collecting 21.5 million dollars on its second week for a total so far of $96 million. Not bad.

One film did cross the $300 million dollar mark this weekend, and that's Iron Man - which was released last month to a huge opening and on its eigth week, the film now stand at $304 million thanks to the extra $4 million that it grossed this weekend. Now, get ready for this: The film's total worldwide stands at an incredible 555 million dollars! Oh, but that's not the biggest numbers we found this week. Harrison Ford's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has collected a ridiculous $650 million worldwide so far. Unbelieveable!

Next week comes Disney Pixar's Wall-E which is expected to debut with big numbers as well. Can't wait for that one.

Out on the Big Screen Today

Two big comedies hit the big screens today. None really caught my attention so I guess I won't be watching either one of these. But here they are anyway.

First up, the Mike Myers comedy - The Love Guru. This movie has been getting heavy promotion for a couple of months now, let's see if it pays off after the numbers come in this weekend. The film also stars Jessica Alba and Justin Timberlake.

And finally, Get Smart also opens today. The film is an adaptation of the 1960s spy parody show of the same name. This film stars Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway and Dwayne Johnson. Check out the movie poster above.