Inglourious Basterds: Second Weekend

Inglourious Basterds had a glorious second weekend. If it doesn't look impressive-it is! Tarantino films often play out like fanboy releases; that is, they attract the core following on opening weekend and then register precipitous drops thereafter. Such, evidently, is not the case with Inglourious Basterds, which suggests that the film is having very strong word of mouth. The $19.3m figure is considerably down from the $20m weekend estimate, but it is more than enough to guarantee a final tally well above $100m. This is a bona fide success for Tarantino and his actors.

And just for the sake of curiosity, and also to provide a proper context for IB's second weekend drop, here are the major 2009 releases and their second weekend drops. IB holds up quite well in this comparison:

Biggest Opening Weekends of 2009 (Thus Far)

My apologies for the lack of updates recently. Let's get going again.

August 2009 has thus far been very impressive, giving us, in District 9's and Inglourious Basterds' openings, two very strong weekends and in G.I. Joes's and Julie & Julia's two very good figures as well. All four openers rank in the top 40 for this year, with the former 3 in the top 20.

As far as admissions go:

1 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 14,825,348
2 X-Men Origins: Wolverine 11,572,517
3 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 10,589,895
4 Star Trek 10,231,876
5 Fast and Furious 9,653,129
6 Up 9,266,502
7 Monsters Vs. Aliens 8,070,897
8 Watchmen 7,512,154
9 G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra 7,443,952
10 Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian 7,370,515
11 Angels & Demons 6,286,281
12 The Hangover 6,119,635
13 Terminator Salvation 5,790,257
14 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs 5,672,161
15 Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail 5,582,442
16 Friday the 13th (2009) 5,519,778
17 Inglourious Basterds 5,115,918
18 District 9 5,082,219
19 The Proposal 4,575,183
20 Hannah Montana The Movie 4,397,889