Monsters Vs. Aliens is #1 at the Box Office this weekend!
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According to Entertainment Weekly, the new 3-D movie from Dreamworks, “Monsters Vs. Aliens”, featuring the voice of Stephen Colbert, was #1 at the box office this weekend with $58.2 million gross in ticket sales.
Here’s more about the movie’s debut weekend, from EW.com:
The family film achieved said success by screening in a variety of fashions — in regular theaters, on IMAX screens, in 2-D, and in 3-D. In fact, less than a third of its showings were in 3-D, but it still earned a whopping 56 percent of its money (about $32.6 mil) from those 3-D locations, where tickets were more expensive. An additional nine percent of its total (about $5.2 mil) came from 143 higher-priced IMAX shows. Overall, ‘Monsters vs. Aliens’ played in 4,104 theaters and averaged a stellar $14,181 per. The movie also drew a nice A- CinemaScore review from an audience that was 62 percent under the age of 25. Yeah, it’ll be sticking around for several weeks to come.
The movie also has a very good 70% rating at RottenTomatoes.com. It seems to be a resounding hit with both the critics and the audience.
Congrats to all involved with the movie! I’m so glad to see the movie’s success!
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8 Comments
March 29th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Woohoo! That’s great to hear! :D
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March 29th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
OK, now I really need to make the effort to see it! I was being apathetic, but I can’t resist a good bandwagon!
(to be honest, when I first heard about this sometime last year, via this blog of course, I thought it sounded quite absurd, and not in a good way. so extra YAY for it actually being great!)
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March 30th, 2009 at 2:55 am
haroo! i’m a sucker for the animated and really enjoyed the movie. i even played annoying and squeeled a bit when stephens name was credited as the voice of the president (i appoligize to anyone who might have shared the theatre with me).
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March 30th, 2009 at 8:28 am
Great news! I really want to see this movie soon. Preferably in 3-D.
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March 30th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Definitely see it in 3D! The effects are really cool!
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March 30th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
I saw it yesterday (unfortunately, not in 3-D)! I was very pleased to see that Stephen’s character had a pretty decent role in this movie, I was worried he was going to be this tiny character on the side.
Be sure to stick around once the credits start rolling – there’s one mid-credits scene, and it DOES have Stephen (or rather, the President) in it.
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March 31st, 2009 at 7:00 pm
i saw it IMAX 3-D. SO worth the extra money! it was a cute movie, but didnt have enough Stephen. :(
my favorite part was about the latte. SO funny!!
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April 9th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Just saw it in 3D – is it me or when they are carrying the President to the helicopter does the officer say into his radio “Papa Bear is on the move”? If so, that’s fantastic!
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