OK, so we all know that “summer” started early this year with the $86.2 million launch of Fast Five. The only question was how last weekend’s massive debut would impact Thor – the superhero flick that, according to the calendar, should have been this year’s first blockbuster. Thorearned an estimated $25.7 million from its 3,995 locations on Friday including the $3.25 million he took in from midnight screenings. That puts the Marvel hero on track for a $60 million first weekend or, right about where the big guy was expected to land after Vin Diesel’s crew drove off with his start-of-summer thunder seven days ago. That same crew came in second on Friday, falling off by 70% for an estimated $10.5 million. With its new domestic total of $117.8 million, Fast Five should be passing Rango to become the highest-grossing release of 2011 right about… now! This week’s two romantic-comedy counter-programmers – Something Borrowed and Jumping the Broom – brought in $4.8 and $4.1 million respectively. Full details and analysis tomorrow.
Title | Friday | Total | |
1 | Thor | $25,700,000 | $25.7 |
2 | Fast Five | $10,500,000 | $117.8 |
3 | Something Borrowed | $4,800,000 | $4.8 |
4 | Jumping the Broom | $4,175,000 | $4.1 |
5 | Rio | $1,960,000 | $108.6 |