As promised yesterday, an update on the U.S. Memorial Day weekend box office. Leonard Klady at MovieCityNews.com (from whence the chart you see above was ‘appropriated’), weighs in with his informative analysis.
John Hamann, at Box Office Prophets offers the folks at 20th Century Fox some degree of succour with this piece of heartening news: “the gross for Day sets a record as the biggest second-place gross ever.”
Meanwhile, the folks at IMDB’s Studio Briefing inform us that the two top films which opened this Memorial Day weekend have established a new box office record, besting last year’s record-breaking grosses of $85.7 million for Jim Carrey’s Bruce Almighty, and $45.6 million for The Matrix Reloaded.

Raymond Tomlin

Raymond Tomlin is a veteran journalist and educator who has written frequently on the political realm — municipal, provincial and federal — as well as on cinema, mainstream popular culture, the arts, and technology.

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