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A Slow Weekend for Speed Racer

Last week, Iron Man treated movie goers to the first blockbuster of 2008.

This week, Speed Racter treated them - or didn't treat anyone, to be more accurate - to the summer season's first dud.

The film, which cost close to $100 million to make, took home just $20.2 million. It barely hung on to second place at the box office. Here's a look at the weekend's results:

1. Iron Man - $50.5 million
2. Speed Racer - $20.2 million
3. What Happens In Vegas - $20 million
4. Made Of Honor - $7.6 million
5. Baby Mama - $5.8 million
6. Forgetting Sarah Marshall - $3.8 million
7. Harold and Kumar... - $3.2 million
8. The Forbidden Kingdom - $1.9 million
9. Nim's Island - $1.3 million
10. Redbelt - $1.4 million

Box Office Report: Iron Man Fights Off All Competition with Ease

Iron Man can do more than just fly through the air. He can soar above almost all movies in history at the box office.

The super hero flick topped the box office with a $100.7 million weekend haul,; it has taken in $104.2 mil since its Thursday premiere, the second-best opening ever for a nonsequel (trailing only the original Spider-Man). It's the 10th biggest opening. Ever.

Rhodes and Stark

Patrick Dempsey's cliche-ridden romantic comedy, Made of Honor, came in second with $15.5 mil in its first weekend.

Rounding out the top five were Baby Mama ($10.3 million), Forgetting Sarah Marshall ($6.1 mil,) and Harold & Kumar: Escape From Guantanamo Bay ($6 mil).

Baby Mama to Harold and Kumar: Who's Your Box Office Daddy?

In a match-up of highly anticipated comedies, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler proved more popular than Harold and Kumar.

Baby Mama - as predicted by Reel Movie News - earned the top spot at the box office this weekend. Here's a look at the complete top five:

1. Baby Mama: $18.3 million
2. Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay: $14.6 million
3. The Forbidden Kingdom: $11.2 million
4. Forgetting Sarah Marshall: $11 million
5. Nim's Island: $4.5 million

Baby Mama Photo

Box Office Results: Fans Enter The Forbidden Kingdom

In a modest surprise, Judd Apatow's latest comedy didn't top the box office this weekend. Instead, that honor went to a pair of Asian martial arts experts.

Check out the final tally, which shows Jet Li and Jackie Chan laughing all the way to the kick boxing bank:

  1. The Forbidden Kingdom: $20.9 million
  2. Forgetting Sarah Marshall: $17.3 million
  3. Prom Night: $9.1 million
  4. 88 Minutes: $6.8 million
  5. Nim's Island: $5.7 million

Hark!

Box Office Results: Fans Go on Prom Night

There weren't any shocking results at the box office this weekend.

Prom Night topped the charts, earning an estimated $22.7 million from 2,700 theaters, an average of $8,407 per location.

Street Kings surprised us a bit with its second place over the weekend, as it took in around $12 million from 2,467 theaters.

Here's a look at the overall box office results:

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21 is Magic Number at the Box Office

21 counted as more than just blackjack this weekend. The drama, starring Kevin Spacey and Kate Bosworth topped the weekend box office with $23 million.

For Spacey and Bosworth, who have costarred in three movies together in less than four years, 21 is their second-biggest debut after Superman Returns.

The blackjack team

In other movie news:

• Stop-Loss (eighth place, $4.5 million) joins In the Valley of Elah, Redacted, Rendition, Home of the Brave and others in pile of war movie rejected by audiences.

• Superhero Movie (third place, $9.5 million) suffered through the weakest opening of all the awful Epic/Scary/Date spoof comedies of recent years.

• Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (second place, $17.4 million; $117.3 million overall) gave Hollywood its first $100 million hit of the year.

• After a solid debut, Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns (fourth place, $7.8 million; $32.8 million overall) pulled a Cloverfield and saw ticket sales plunge 61 percent.

• Vantage Point ($2.4 million, $69.4 million) ends its Top 10 run after a solid five-week stay.

Box Office Results: Hannah Montana Rules!

fp9073hannah-montana-best-of-both-worlds-posters.jpg Warning: Hannah Montana is taking over the world.

The teen sensation racked up close to $30 million at the box office this weekend, despite Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour only showing on 683 screens. That's incredible.

1. Hannah Montana - $29 million
2. The Eye - $13 million
3. 27 Dresses - $8.4 million
4. Juno - $7.4 million
5. Meet the Spartans - $7.1 million
6. Rambo - $7 million
7. The Bucket List - $6.8 million
8. Untraceable - $5.4 million
9. Cloverfield - $4.9 million
10. There Will Be Blood - $4.7 million

Box Office Results: Mad Money is a Mad Bomb

kat_hom.jpg Katie Holmes might wanna stick to being Tom Cruise's baby-making slave.

The actress' comedy Mad Money, co-starring Queen Latifah and Diane Keaton, sucked it up at the box office this weekend, faring worse than the Green Bay Packers.

Here's a rundown of the preliminary top seven (no, Mad Money could not even crack the top five):

  1. Cloverfield: $41 million
  2. 27 Dresses: $22.4 million
  3. The Bucket List: $15.2 million
  4. Juno: $10.3 million
  5. National Treasure: Book of Secrets: $8.1 million
  6. First Sunday: $7.8 million
  7. Mad Money: $7.7 million

Critics have slammed Holmes for her role in the heist flick, with The New York Times calling her "the movie's weakest link." Ouch.

National Treasure: Book of Secrets Dominates Box Office

Nicolas Cage and his sequel to National Treasure topped Will Smith, Alvin and his Chipmunks at the box office this weekend.

Here are the results from the holiday weekend:

  1. National Treasure: Book of Secrets: $45.5 million
  2. I Am Legend: $34.3 million
  3. Alvin and the Chipmunks: $29 million.
  4. Charlie Wilson's War: $9.6 million.
  5. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: $9.3 million.

30 Days of Night Leads Box Office Tally

Here are the final numbers for this weekend's box office revenue:

1. 30 Days of Night, $16 million
2. Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married?, $12.1 million
3. The Game Plan, $8.1 million
4. Michael Clayton, $7.1 million
5. Gone Baby Gone, $6 million
6. The Comebacks, $5.9 million
7. We Own the Night, $5.5 million
8. Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, $5.1 million
9. Rendition, $4.2 million
10. The Heartbreak Kid, $3.9 million

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