Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer rose to the Weekend box office No. 1 position in its opener. While that's not surprising, their performance surely was, as it generated $7 million more in revenue than expected by the studio, and far more than that which was expected by most critics. It finished with $57.4 million in its debut. That beat the original Fantastic Four, which brought in $56.1 million for its opener.
Last weeks No. 1 finisher, Ocean's Thirteen, held pretty strong as it dropped a pretty good 47% from its premiere, as it fell to the No. 1 position. It was able to gross another $19.1 million. It helped that no new adult film was introduced this weekend.
Knocked Up held on to its third place position, as it drew a pretty strong $14.5 million, only dropping an excellent 26%. It's now generated over $90 million.
For the third weekend in a row, the box office finished behind last year's total, even with a better-than-expected performance from Fantastic Four. It dropped about 4% from last year's total for the top 12, finishing with $138.8 million, in comparison to last year's $144.6 million.
Top ten for the weekend:
| 1 | Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer | $57,400,000 |
| 2 | Ocean's Thirteen | $19,105,000 |
| 3 | Knocked Up | $14,535,000 |
| 4 | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | $12,024,000 |
| 5 | Surf's Up | $9,300,000 |
| 6 | Shrek the Third | $9,007,000 |
| 7 | Nancy Drew | $7,135,000 |
| 8 | Hostel Part II | $3,000,000 |
| 9 | Mr. Brooks | $2,820,000 |
| 10 | Spider-Man 3 | $2,500,000 |
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