May sure has been a pretty good month for the box office with big blockbusters debuting every weekend.
Early in the month, “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” fired up the spring-summer blockbuster season with $87 million in ticket sales during its opening weekend. A pretty impressive feat considering that the film wasn’t shown in Imax screens, which surely would have further boosted its earnings.
The next weekend it was followed by the sci-fi blockbuster “Star Trek”, which paved new records for Trekkie films at a whopping $72.5 million in ticket sales. This film made more than twice the Start Trek film series record holder did!
“Angels and Demons” then edged “Star Trek” from the top spot earning $48 million on its opening weekend, which was pretty weak compared to the first two films’ debut showings. The real downer though was “Terminator Salvation”, which was expected to smash the weekend box office but was instead beat by the comedy “Night at the Museum”, which earned $53.5 million. Terminator did earn an respectable $43.0 million.