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Iron Man did $37.9 million yesterday, and is on track to finish Sunday night with $93.9 million. (This presumably includes Thursday night's business.) Made of Honor is projecting $15.5 million for the weekend, and Baby Mama will come in third with $10.3 million -- off 41%, a not-great-but-decent hold. Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo will be fourth with $6.4 million. And Forgetting Sarah Marshall with come in fifth with $6.2 million.

Forbidden Kingdom will make almost $4 million. Nim's Island will be seventh with $2.7 million. Prom Night will finish with $2.4 million, 21 will make $2 million even. 88 Minutes, the Al Pacino embarassment, will make $1.7 million, but it'll also have a cume of $15.4 million by Sunday night. There are many superior indie films out there that would be delighted to make one third of that amount, all in.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on May 3, 2008 at 8:27 AM

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romeoisbleeding says ...

Great for Iron Man!! I am hoping if this continues this indicates ithere will be a sequel? does anyone know if they had to make a certain amount to assure this??

Posted by romeoisbleeding at May 3, 2008 9:12 AM

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actionman says ...

yeah, GTA really affected the box office...

Romeo--there will most assuredly be a sequel

Posted by actionman at May 3, 2008 9:31 AM

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MASON says ...

Somewhere Don Murphy screams and David "it's a niche film" Poland spins.

Posted by MASON at May 3, 2008 9:48 AM

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iamwhoiam says ...

Way to go, Tony Stark.

Posted by iamwhoiam at May 3, 2008 10:14 AM

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Mjs says ...

Couldn't be happier for Downey.

Posted by Mjs at May 3, 2008 10:43 AM

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jbf81 says ...

Couldn't be happier for Downey.==============================
Exaclty what I tought, so happy for Robert

Posted by jbf81 at May 3, 2008 11:20 AM

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ScottMendelson says ...

Obviously, the saturation marketing roped along everyone, even the very women who weren't even officially targeted. I'm dying to hear idiots blabbing about how women went soft for the love story between Pepper Potts and Tony Stark, that they approved of the 'stand by your man' element or whatever such nonsense.

Nevermind that there was no hint of romance in the trailers and it's barely in the movie for that matter (one of several underdeveloped threads that should be dealt with in the sequel). Women went for three reasons. They either went because they were dragged along by their boyfriends and husbands, they have prurient interests in Robert Downey Jr, or they went because some of them like shiny toys, manly men, comic book adventure, and explosions as much as boys do (just like they went to see 300 last year because they enjoy handsome, barely clothed muscle men wielding swords and hacking at each other as much as boys do).

Scott Mendelson
http://scottalanmendelson.blogspot.com/
(two pieces now up on Iron Man numbers, including a long-ass bit on May openers vs mid-May frontrunners for those who give a crap).

Posted by ScottMendelson at May 3, 2008 12:47 PM

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Circumvrent says ...

IRON MAN 2
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From the director of IRON MAN

Posted by Circumvrent at May 3, 2008 12:47 PM

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TheJeff says ...

Ugh. There is nothing studios hate more than critically acclaimed blockbusters with $90+ million opening weekends. Guess they won't be hiring that hack Favreau again!

Posted by TheJeff at May 3, 2008 4:38 PM

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