Gearing above my prediction of USD35million, Get Smart opens nicely at No.1 for the US Box office to grab USD39.2. While 'The Love Guru' tumbles on its first race for the weekend to manage only getting thr 4th spot. Ouchhh!! That really hurts for Mike Myers and the team. Bad critics, bad reviews and bad word of mouth had sunk that movie really badly. I've watched 'Get Smart' last Saturday and it's totally awesome and above my expectations. The movie was so cool, every single part filled with hilarious and joyful laughter for the entire audiences. Great movie to watch with the whole family indeed. The audiences even clapped their hands [just like watching a concert though] to my surprise. Wow! I'm giving Get Smart 
- Ibrahem.SLast weekend Steve Carell took control of the North American box office with his action-comedy Get Smart which powered its way to an easy win at the multiplexes. Mike Myers saw his new comedy The Love Guru settle for a fourth place launch behind holdovers Kung Fu Panda and The Incredible Hulk which fought fiercely for the number two spot. Overall business cooled down after four scorching frames of stellar sales, but the marketplace was still comfortably ahead of year-ago levels.
A modern update on the classic 1960s spy series, Get Smart was what the public wanted as the Warner Bros. vehicle bowed to an estimated $39.2M from an ultrawide 3,911 locations to lead the box office this weekend. Averaging a solid $10,012 per site, the PG-13 film starring Carell as bumbling agent Maxwell Smart overcame weak reviews to post the best opening ever for the comedian in the lead role of a live-action film. Earlier this year he co-anchored with Jim Carrey the Dr. Seuss toon Horton Hears a Who! which debuted to $45M. Smart packed in extra starpower with Anne Hathaway, Dwayne Johnson, and Alan Arkin. After stumbling last month with its other television remake Speed Racer, Warner Bros. hit the jackpot this time around with a film that blended comedy with action giving audiences the kind of entertainment worth leaving home for. It was also the studio's biggest opening of the year so far, not counting New Line's Sex and the City which it handled distribution for.
Thanks to a solid hold, the animated comedy Kung Fu Panda bounced back up one spot to second place with an estimated $21.7M dropping only 35%. The 17-day total is now $155.6M for Paramount and DreamWorks. The Jack Black martial arts tale is still performing much like Pixar's 2006 June toon Cars which raced to a nearly identical $156.7M after 17 days. That film enjoyed a slightly better third lap grossing $23.3M for a slim 31% decline. Kung Fu Panda is still on course to surpass the $225M mark making it difficult for Pixar and Disney's next offering Wall-E to steal the animation crown for the summer. That toon invades multiplexes this Friday.
Very close behind in third was Universal's comic book reboot The Incredible Hulk which fell 61% to an estimated $21.6M for a ten-day tally of $96.5M. It was a better hold and gross compared to Ang Lee's Hulk from 2003 which suffered a stunning 70% freefall to $18.8M in its sophomore session for a ten-day cume of $100.6M. Incredible will probably find its way to about $140-145M domestically. The old Hulk finished with $132.2M five years ago which would translate to around $155M at today's ticket prices meaning the new Edward Norton vehicle will end up selling about 8% fewer ticket stubs. But the new film is well-liked by fans so the franchise now has a promising future. Overseas, The Incredible Hulk grossed an estimated $23.4M from 50 territories boosting the international take to $63.3M and the global gross to $159.8M with several key markets yet to open.
Settling for a fourth place debut was the new Mike Myers comedy The Love Guru which grossed an estimated $14M from 3,012 locations for a mild $4,648 average. Paramount's PG-13 pic about a self-help expert hired to fix a star hockey player's love life came in below expectations and was the smallest bow for a Myers comedy since the $9.5M of 1997's Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. Panned by critics, Guru opened to $5.4M on Friday, dropped a troubling 12% on Saturday to $4.7M, and is projected to dip another 17% to $3.9M on Sunday.
M Night Shyamalan's latest creepfest The Happening collapsed in its second weekend tumbling 67% to an estimated $10M pushing the ten-day total to $50.3M. The Fox release was the director's third consecutive film to tumble by 60% or more in the second weekend. The Mark Wahlberg starrer looks to finds its way to about $70M making it the second lowest grosser for Shyamalan since he hit it big with 1999's The Sixth Sense. Only 2006's Lady in the Water did worse with $42.3M. [Source from: boxofficeguru.com]
| # | Title | Jun 20 - 22 | Weeks | Cumulative | Distributor | |||||
| 1 | Get Smart | $ 39,155,000 | | 1 | $ 39,155,000 | Warner Bros. | ||||
| 2 | Kung Fu Panda | 21,700,000 | 3 | 155,596,000 | Paramount | |||||
| 3 | The Incredible Hulk | 21,557,000 | | 2 | 96,476,000 | Universal | ||||
| 4 | The Love Guru | 14,000,000 | | 1 | 14,000,000 | Paramount | ||||
| 5 | The Happening | 10,000,000 | | 2 | 50,267,000 | Fox | ||||
| 6 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom... | 8,414,000 | | 5 | 290,835,000 | Paramount | ||||
| 7 | You Don't Mess With the Zohan | 7,200,000 | 3 | 84,055,000 | Sony | |||||
| 8 | Sex and the City | 6,465,000 | 4 | 132,385,000 | New Line | |||||
| 9 | Iron Man | 4,002,000 | 8 | 304,788,000 | Paramount | |||||
| 10 | The Strangers | 1,949,000 | 4 | 49,586,000 | Universal |
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