It wasn’t exactly a win for the ages. But hey, maybe that means hard cold cash won’t be so important in the future.
Tomorrowland strapped on a currency-powered jet pack and then bounced and tumbled across the box office field this weekend with an estimated $33 million take ($40.7 million if you count Memorial Day in the tally). Those, admittedly, aren’t Matterhorn-sized numbers: Folks spent a lot more time barbecuing, it seems—or, in Texas, buying flotation equipment—than going to the movies, making this Memorial Day weekend one of the slowest on recent record. But did Tomorrowland make enough to scale the gentle slopes of Space Mountain? You bet.
Pitch Perfect 2, last week’s champ, gave Tomorrowland a run for its Astro-Orbiting money. But in the end it slid to second with $30.8 million. Mad Max: Fury Road took the weekend’s bronze medal with $24.8 million.
Poltergeist, the weekend’s other major new release, scared up $22.6 million—more than three times what its predecessor earned on its opening frame. ‘Course, the original Poltergeist was released in the dark days of 1982, when most of us were still bartering pigs and eggs for our movie tickets. But the folks over at 20th Century Fox will crow about whatever they can come up with.
Avengers: Age of Ultron slipped all the way to fifth, suggesting that the superheroes may finally be losing steam. Still, the $21.7 million it earned vaulted it over the $400 million mark domestically. Not only does that make Ultron the year’s biggest money-maker so far, it’s also more than any film made last year.
It looks like the only real challenger Ultron will have for the year’s box office crown will be Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens. And we’ll have to wait ’til December for that titanic space battle to commence.
Final figures for these films will be posted when they’re released.
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