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Weekend Box Office Results for May 1–3, 2009

There are no major surprises. The week was almost even with the same week last year, and Wolverine performed approximately as expected, which is to say very well. It was among the top 20 opening weekends of all time, and beat X-Men 2 (opening weekend $86m, final total $214m), although it fell short of X-Men 3 (opening weekend $103, final total $234).

You can expect a big drop-off for Wolverine next week, and not just because it will be up against Star Trek. The X-men series is notoriously front-loaded, even more so than the Harry Potter films. The last two X-Men movies have the lowest total grosses of all the films which amassed the top 20 opening weekends.

The McConaughey romcom performed below expectations, which may be an indication that his pact with Satan has expired.

Battle for Terra grossed about a million dollars, which missed the top ten, but was better than I expected. (It doubled Delgo in total gross and quadrupled it in average per theater.)