We chose our “teams” for fantasy summer box office on last week’s Frotcast, a game which will hopefully make these box office-wrap up posts a little more interesting (again, thanks to the Masters of None guys for the idea).  We each chose four movies and one bomb pick, person with the highest combined numbers based on domestic opening weekend (plus the inverse of your bomb pick’s budget minus opening) wins.  You can see the standings thus far here, but long story short… it looks like I’m screwed.

My second pick, X-Men: First Class opened this weekend, and although those horrible posters and generally terrible marketing campaign didn’t affect the reviews, they do seem to have affected the numbers, with X-Men pulling its weakest opening of the franchise, an estimated $56 million.  That was behind Thor ($65.7 million) and comparable to The Incredible Hulk or Watchmen.  Not exactly a disaster, unless you count making Brett Ratner look good through no fault of his own yet again a disaster, which it kind of is.  Said Ratner, “Huh?” and scratched his balls, when reached for comment.

Film Weekend Per Tht Cum. Total
1 X-Men: First Class $56,000,000 $15,380 $56,000,000
2 The Hangover 2 $32,445,000 (-62%) $8,970 $186,871,960
3 Kung Fu Panda 2 $24,300,000 (-49%) $6,149 $100,440,458
4 Pirates 4 $18,010,000 (-55%) $4,541 $190,256,277
5 Bridesmaids $12,128,000 (-27%) $4,155 $107,254,000
6 Thor $4,200,000 (-56%)
$1,511 $169,072,904
7 Fast Five $3,244,000 (-49%) $1,450 $202,058,310
8 Midnight In Paris $2,916,224 (-51%) $19,838 $6.942,963
9 Jumping The Broom
 $865,000 (-53%) $1,469 $35,927,391
10 Something Borrowed $835,000 (-55%) $1,215 $36,660,317

As you can see, pretty much everything else suffered big drops of 49% or higher – led by The Hangover II, down 62% from last weekend.  The only movie with any holding power was Bridesmaids, still making decent money in its fourth weekend.  My mom saw it over the weekend.  She liked it.

[via CHUD, BoxOfficeMojo]

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