The Memorial Day frame wasn’t one quite worth remembering for Will Smith, who walked away with the holiday’s biggest opening almost by default as The Avengers waned — not a lot, but enough — in its fourth weekend. Meanwhile, the week’s other wide release suffered a catastrophic B.O. meltdown en route to sixth place overall. Your special holiday-edition Weekend Receipts are here. [All figures reflect four-day totals.] 1. Men in Black 3 Gross: $70,000,000 (new) Screens: 4,248 (PSA: $16,478) Weeks: 1 Will Smith ‘s first summer entry in four years didn’t exactly blow the roofs off America’s multiplexes — the third installment of the sci-fi/comedy mashups had a $55,000,000 three-day total that basically matched those of its franchise predecessors from 1997 and 2002. But that’s what foreign box-office is for: $133 million and counting, giving Sony a $200 million global total that it should be able to build on in the weeks ahead opposite the modest-looking Snow White and the Huntsman and the R-rated Prometheus . 2. The Avengers Gross: $46,878,000 ($523,563,000) Screens: 3,918 (PSA $11,965) Weeks: 4 (Change: -15.8%) In four weeks, Marvel’s blockbuster has settled into the fourth spots on both the all-time domestic and foreign gross lists. It’ll take the third spots from The Dark Knight and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (respectively) in the next 24 hours. The Avengers , ladies and gentlemen! There are no words. 3. Battleship Gross: $13,769,000 ($47,274,000) Screens: 3,702 (PSA: $3,719) Weeks: 2 (Change: -46.1%) Don’t let the 46 percent decline fool you; the three-day total reflected a 57 percent plunge from its pillow-soft Stateside debut. Again, though, its foreign ardor persists — not quite enough to make the whole thing worth Universal or Hasbro’s while, but hey. At least there’s always G.I. Joe 2 ! Oh, wait . 4. The Dictator Gross: $11,755,000 ($43,603,000) Screens: 3,014 (PSA $3,900) Weeks: 2 (Change: -32.6%) I dunno, maybe this wasn’t the best weekend to be joking around about Middle Eastern despots at the movies? 5. Dark Shadows Gross: $9,405,000 ($64,888,000) Screens: 3,404 (PSA $2,763) Weeks: 3 (Change: -25.3%) Someone had to finish fifth. 6. Chernobyl Diaries Gross: $9,300,000 ($9,300,000) Screens: 2,433 (PSA $3,822) Weeks: 1 David Poland said it best : ” Oren Peli just isn’t a brand. Sorry.” Aren’t we all. [Figures via Box Office Mojo ] Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
It’s not just the superheroes who are toppling box-office records this summer: Check out the opening for Wes Anderson ‘s Moonrise Kingdom , which pulled in $523,000 over the weekend — on four screens . Its $130,750 per-theater average represents a new standard for limited live-action releases, besting Dreamgirls ‘s $126,316 from 2006. ( Moonrise ‘s four-day holiday total reached $669,000.) Hats off as well to The Weinstein Company’s The Intouchables , no slouch itself with around $26,000 per screen for the three-day frame. Champagne for all! [ Deadline ]
For every time someone calls a black woman strong, 5,000 others will call her angry. When you’re a strong black woman and the wife of the first black president, you’re going to get called angry more often than not. Michelle Obama has fallen victim to the angry black woman label thanks to a new book written by New York Times writer, Jodi Kantor . In the book, Kantor tells of The First Lady having issues with President Obama’s top advisers. Michelle Obama was interviewed by Gayle King where she refuted those claims. Obama told King, “I guess it’s just more interesting to imagine this conflicted situation here. That’s been an image people have tried to paint of me since the day Barack announced, that I’m some kind of angry black woman.” Mrs. Obama also stated that she has no real contact with Obama’s staff. “If there’s communication that needs to happen, it’s between staffs,” she said. “I don’t have conversations with my husband’s staff.” For more on the story, head over to Black Voices . RELATED POSTS: Happy Birthday Obama: 50 Things You Might Not Know! 12 Black Couples Who Make It Last [PHOTOS] President Barack Obama Spotted Singing With Justin Bieber [VIDEO]
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