Box Office: Iron Man Blasts Off with $104.2 Million
Iron Man courtesy Paramount Pictures
Iron Man, starring Robert Downey Jr., topped the box office with a $100.7 million weekend haul, and has taken in $104.2 mil since its Thursday premiere, the second-best opening ever for a nonsequel (trailing only the original
Spider-Man).
Iron Man marks the 10th-biggest opening of all time and the fourth-best for a superhero flick.
Placing second was Patrick Dempsey's
Made of Honor, which earned $15.5 mil in its first weekend. Rounding out the top five were
Baby Mama ($10.3 million),
Forgetting Sarah Marshall ($6.1 mil, including $21 of my own) and
Harold & Kumar: Escape From Guantanamo Bay ($6 mil).
Overall, the box office was off 15 percent from a year ago (when
Spider-Man 3 opened with $151.1 mil), and movie attendance this year to date is down six percent.
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Iron Man deserve box-office gold? And how McDreamy was
Made of Honor? -
MWM
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