The X Factor: Ticket Sales Fall Off

From: imdb.com

Ticket sales for X-Men Origins: Wolverine fell off more steeply on Sunday than 20th Century Fox executives had expected. The result was that the movie ended up with a total of $85.1 million versus the $87 million that the studio had estimated. The result also meant that the overall box-office finished a tad behind the comparable week last year, when Iron Man opened with $98.6 million, making it only the third week this year that sales were not significantly above last year's. Coming in second was the debuting romantic comedy Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, starring Matthew McConaughey, which took in $15.4 million. The only other film to open wide, Battle for Terra 3-D, took in just $1.1 million, to open twelfth.

The top ten films over the weekend, according to final figures compiled by Box Office Mojo (figures in parentheses represent total gross to date):
1. X-Men Origins: Wolverine, 20th Century Fox, $85,058,003, (New) );
2. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Warner Bros., $15,411,434, (New) );
3. Obsessed, Sony, $12,052,151, 2 Wks. ($46,854,485);
4. 17 Again, Warner Bros., $6,361,358, 3 Wks. ($48,503,817);
5. Monsters Vs. Aliens, Paramount, $5,803,429, 6 Wks. ($182,407,971);
6. The Soloist, Paramount, $5,654,558, 2 Wks. ($18,162,696);
7. Earth, Disney, $4,340,235, 2 Wks. ($22,004,284);
8. Hannah Montana: The Movie, Disney, $4,164,185, 4 Wks. ($70,946,323);
9. Fighting, Universal, $4,011,465, 2 Wks. ($17,344,805);
10. State of Play, Universal, $3,715,980, 3 Wks. ($30,944,180).