Hannah has second highest Easter weekend opening ever
BY COLIN ENQUIST
Playing in 3118 theatres, Hannah Montana: The Movie grossed an estimated $34M, with a Friday gross of $17.3M which is the highest ever for a live-action G-rated film on its opening day. Though not able to break the
weekend gross of Scary Movie 4, Disney can probably thank Miley Cyrus' star status for bringing out the teenagers off of school on Good Friday to see the film which is also Disney's highest April take in the companies history.
Universals' Fast and Furious surpassed the $100M mark, becoming the fifth movie this year to do so. Dropping 59% into second, the Vin Diesel and Paul Walker film raked in $28.7M, making the decision easy for Universal, who signed both stars to a come back for yet another film for the franchise. The film also crossed the $200M mark worldwide over the weekend.
Monsters vs. Aliens brought in $22.6M, bringing its impressive total up around $141M. The film is still playing in over 4000 theatres, and with only a 30% drop in ticket sales, we should expect this to become the highest grossing film of the year sometime over the next week.
The dark comedy, Observe and Report opened in fourth place at $11.1M. Warner Bros. has high expectations for the Jody Hill comedy starring Seth Rogen, the studio is hoping it follows the line drawn by Kevin James' Paul Blart: Mall Cop which is the current number one grossing film this year. With the much darker material, the audience will be quite different.
Slots five through seven were filled by Alex Proyas and Nicolas Cage's sci-fi thriller Knowing with $6.7M, the Paul Rudd R-rated buddy comedy I Love You, Man with $6.4M and haunted house thriller The Haunting in Connecticut with $5.7M. They've grossed $68M, $59M and $46M respectively.
The biggest dissapointment would be Fox's Dragonball: Evolution, which opening only in 2181 theatres and bombed its way to $4.6M. The opened a few weeks back in the foreign market and has grabbed $25.3M overseas already.
Rounding out the top ten, Adventureland took in another $3.4M bringing its two week total around $11M. Duplicity earned another $2.9M, making the four week total $36.8M.

Universals' Fast and Furious surpassed the $100M mark, becoming the fifth movie this year to do so. Dropping 59% into second, the Vin Diesel and Paul Walker film raked in $28.7M, making the decision easy for Universal, who signed both stars to a come back for yet another film for the franchise. The film also crossed the $200M mark worldwide over the weekend.
Monsters vs. Aliens brought in $22.6M, bringing its impressive total up around $141M. The film is still playing in over 4000 theatres, and with only a 30% drop in ticket sales, we should expect this to become the highest grossing film of the year sometime over the next week.
The dark comedy, Observe and Report opened in fourth place at $11.1M. Warner Bros. has high expectations for the Jody Hill comedy starring Seth Rogen, the studio is hoping it follows the line drawn by Kevin James' Paul Blart: Mall Cop which is the current number one grossing film this year. With the much darker material, the audience will be quite different.
Slots five through seven were filled by Alex Proyas and Nicolas Cage's sci-fi thriller Knowing with $6.7M, the Paul Rudd R-rated buddy comedy I Love You, Man with $6.4M and haunted house thriller The Haunting in Connecticut with $5.7M. They've grossed $68M, $59M and $46M respectively.
The biggest dissapointment would be Fox's Dragonball: Evolution, which opening only in 2181 theatres and bombed its way to $4.6M. The opened a few weeks back in the foreign market and has grabbed $25.3M overseas already.
Rounding out the top ten, Adventureland took in another $3.4M bringing its two week total around $11M. Duplicity earned another $2.9M, making the four week total $36.8M.
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