“Super 8″ – An American Debut of $37 Million
“Super 8″ – An American Debut of $37 Million
After superheroes, pirates that love treasures and adventurers, animal experts in martial arts and hangover tourists, the science fiction thriller produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by JJ Abrams was installed at the head of the American box office with $ 37 million dollars, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com. Even if it exceeded the amount estimated at the debut, 32 million, producers believe that the film's success can be declared until the second week of release. Adventure of "Super 8", a group of young people who accidentally discovers a closely guarded secret of the Government, while taking pictures for an amateur film has been compared in its performance, with Spielberg's early productions, such as "E.T." and "The Goonies". The top previous rankings have rallied from Abrams's fiction, with important collections, which have made "The Hangover Part II" and "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" exceed a total of 200 million dollars. Therefore, we have on the second place, "X-Men: First Class" (25 million), third place, "The Hangover Part II" (18.5 million), "Kung Fu Panda 2" is on the 4th (16.6 million) and 5, "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" (10.4 million dollars). In the lower half of the league we can find "The Bridesmaides", located on the 6th with $ 10.1 million, followed by a new entrant this week, "Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer", a family comedy starring Heather Graham ($ 6.2 million). "Midnight in Paris", Woody Allen's movie was ranked 8 this week, with $ 6.1 million, resulting a bit more than the production budget, estimated at 30 million. On the 9th place we find "Thor", who gather 2.6 million from the U.S. viewers, followed by the last in the ranking "Fast Five" ($ 1.7 million) in the seventh week of release. Find out more about "Super 8" from here.