{"id":1945,"date":"2008-07-13T20:27:12","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T19:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2008-07-13T20:27:12","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T19:27:12","slug":"hellboy-2-tops-the-us-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/07\/13\/hellboy-2-tops-the-us-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Hellboy 2 tops the US box office"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hellboy 2: The Golden Army<\/strong><\/a>, the sequel to the 2004 movie<\/a> adapted from the Dark Horse Comics<\/a> character, topped the US box office this weekend with an estimated gross of $35.9M<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Directed by Guillermo de Toro<\/a> (fresh from the success of Pan’s Labyrinth<\/a>), it sees Ron Perlman<\/a> reprise his role as the demon who fights for good, this time against an army of creatures unleashed from another world.<\/p>\n

On Friday it took an estimated $12.75 million, which set it up nicely to overtake Hancock<\/a>, last week’s Number 1 film.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, Universal bought the rights to make this sequel from Sony<\/a> and Revolution Studios<\/a> who passed on it after the original grossed just under $60m in the US<\/a> on a $66m budget.<\/p>\n

Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood Daily reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The fact that\u00a0Hellboy II<\/em> made 50% more than the 2004 first movie’s $23.1M\u00a0opening FSS is a real triumph for Universal Pictures, whose bosses Marc Shmuger, David Linde and Donna Langley\u00a0swooped in and scooped up the sequel from Sony\/Revolution Studios\u00a0which did the original Hellboy I.<\/em> (And the trio wanted it before del Toro’s Oscar-nominated Pan’s Labyrinth<\/em> ever opened.)<\/p>\n

As one Uni exec exulted, “We took somebody’s reject pile and made it into a franchise for us.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hancock held steady in second place with a 50% drop from last weekend, which is impressive given last week’s longer 5-day weekend and the mixed reviews it received<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As for the other new films this week, Journey to the Center of the Earth<\/strong><\/a> looks like it will nab third spot ahead of WALL\u2022E, whilst the new Eddie Murphy comedy Meet Dave<\/strong><\/a> didn’t fare so well.<\/p>\n

It looks like it will gross about $4.1 million over the weekend, which will be his weakest opening in years.<\/p>\n

Here are the latest estimates for the weekend box office from Variety<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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  1. Hellboy II: The Golden Army<\/strong> (Universal) \/ $35.9m \/ Screens: 3,204<\/li>\n
  2. Hancock<\/strong> (Sony) \/ $33.0m \/ Screens: 3,965<\/li>\n
  3. Journey to the Center of the Earth<\/strong> (Warner Bros.\/New Line) \/ $20.6m \/ Screens: 2,811<\/li>\n
  4. WALL-E<\/strong> (Disney\/Pixar) \/ $18.5 \/ Screens: 3,849<\/li>\n
  5. Wanted<\/strong> (Universal) \/ $11.6m \/ Screens: 3,157<\/li>\n
  6. Get Smart<\/strong> (Warner Bros.) \/ $11.1m \/ Screens: 3,086<\/li>\n
  7. Meet Dave<\/strong> (Fox\/New Regency) \/ $5.3 \/ Screens: 3,011<\/li>\n
  8. Kung Fu Panda<\/strong> (Paramount\/DreamWorks) \/ $4.3m \/ Screens: 2,704<\/li>\n
  9. Kit Kittredge: An American Girl<\/strong> (Picturehouse) \/ $2.3 \/ Screens: 1,849<\/li>\n
  10. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull <\/strong>(Paramount) \/ $2.2 \/ Screens: 1,664<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    > Hellboy 2<\/a> at the IMDb
    \n>     Reuters report on the US box office this weekend<\/a>
    \n>     Box Office Mojo with the latest chart<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, the sequel to the 2004 movie adapted from the Dark Horse Comics character, topped the US box office this weekend with an estimated gross of $35.9M. Directed by Guillermo de Toro (fresh from the success of Pan’s Labyrinth), it sees Ron Perlman reprise his role as the demon who fights […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[2791,354],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}