‘G.I. Joe’ Tops Box Office
‘G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra’ has topped the box office charts for the weekend in North America with an estimated $56.2 million in ticket sales. The film also earned an estimated $100 million worldwide. The movie is an adaptation of the popular toy franchise and follows a group of elite operatives while they battle the mysterious Cobra organization.
Taking second place on the charts was ‘Julie & Julia’ with $20.1 million in sales. The film is based on the true stories of Julia Child, a famed American for cooking French food, and Julie Powell, a woman that tries to cook one recipe per day for a year using Child’s most famous cookbook.
‘G-Force’, which is about a crack squad of guinea pig spies, stayed in third place for the second consecutive week with $9.8 million worth of tickets sold. ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’ has dropped down to fourth on the list in its fourth week in theaters with an estimated $8.9 million for the weekend. ‘Funny People’, the comedy which stars Adam Sandler, dropped from first to fifth, earning $7.9 million in its second week.
Taking the chart at sixth was ‘The Ugly Truth’, a romantic comedy starring Gerard Butler and Katherine Heigl, with $7 million in estimated earnings. Seventh place went to ‘A Perfect Getaway’, a new release thriller about a serial killer on a popular Hawaiian island for honeymooners, with $5.8 million. ‘Aliens in the Attic’, a family adventure film, took eighth with $4 million, while the horror movie ‘Orphan’, about an adopted Russian girl, took ninth with $3.73 million. ‘(500) Days of Summer’ rounded out the charts in tenth with $3.72 million in tickets sales over the weekend.