Monday, June 01, 2009

Opening 'Up' big at box office


Moviegoers got down with "Up," the animated family comedy that soared into first place at the box office.

With debut ticket sales totalling $68.2 million, the Pixar film was the third best opening for the hitmaking animation company, just behind the $70 million openings for "Finding Nemo" and "The Incredibles," according to Disney, Pixar's owner.

Like its Pixar predecessors, the action adventure - featuring a boy, balloons and a cranky old man (with the voice of Ed Asner) - earned glowing reviews from critics.

"The Disney-Pixar collaboration is probably the closet thing to box-office perfection out there," said box office analyst Paul Dergarabedian.

The summer is to be shaping up well for family-oriented movies. Last week's box office winner, "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian," slipped to second place with $25.5 million.

The weekend's other new wide release, the horror flick "Drag Me to Hell," opened at No. 3 with $16.6 million.

"Terminator Salvation" and "Star Trek" continued to steer a strong course, coming in at Nos. 4 and 5 with $12.8 million and $11.2 million, respectively.

Rounding out the box office winners were "Angels & Demons," which was No. 6 with $11.2 million and "Dance Flick," No. 7 with $4.9 million.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/2009/06/01/2009-06-01_opening_up_to_big_money_at_the_box_office.html

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