July 31st - August 2nd US Box Office: Potter Vs Sandler

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It's been another crazy week in the land of movie ticket receipts as the new Judd Apatow/ Seth Rogen/ Jonah Hill comedy Funny People was released and instantly went to number one.

Last week number one, kid's action comedy G-Force tumbled down behind The Boy Who Lived, who, despite all the odds and fairly 'meh' reviews, continues to hang on. Question is, with Potter VI: Snoggings and Hobgoblins manage to catch up with the rampant beast that is Transformers: Robots With No Plot? At almost $400 million, Michael Bay's cinematic cancer is far and away the year's most profitable film.

Other surprises include Fox's new CGI-heavy comedy Aliens in the Attic splashing into a lowly fifth place (c'mon kids! It's got Ashley Tisdale from High School Musical!) and both The Hangover and The Proposal continuing to remain inside the top ten. The summer of sleeper hits seems to be well and truly here.

1 - [N] Funny People $23,440,000 - Week 1
2 - [2] Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince $17,700,000 [255,463,000] - Week 3
3 - [1] G-Force $17,058,000 [$66,461,000] - Week 2
4 - [3] The Ugly Truth $13,000,000 [$54,481,000] - Week 2
5 - [N] Aliens in the Attic Fox $7,800,000 - Week 1
6 - [4] Orphan $7,250,000 [$26,791,000] - Week 2
7 - [5] Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs $5,300,000 [$181,843,000] - Week 5
8 - [7] The Hangover $5,080,000 [$255,776,000] - Week 9
9 - [8] The Proposal $4,848,000 [$148,882,000] - Week 7
10 - [6] Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen $4,600,000 [$388,101,000] - Week 6

Source: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/

[Sheridan Passell]

$23m is pretty terrible for an Adam Sandler movie. They never did a good job of explaining what the hell the movie was about. The trailer was basically "Hey Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen are in the same movie and Adam Sandler's dying, only he's not. Also Rogen looks a bit creepy when he's thin. August 1st 2009."

[T.ROSS]

I saw the new Apatow movie, Funny People, it was hilarious!