May 10: The first School Holidays of the year is definitely over and done with as films across the board have had some pretty hefty drops this week, also contributing to the carnage the new box office champ, Iron Man, who annihilated the competition and in turn became the years second highest opening week earner with a whopping 1.6 million!
Newcomer Made of Honor managed to score a decent crowd taking in just over 320k for the week whereas the final of the trio of new releases, Dan in Real Life couldn’t capture its audience in its first try but expect it to find its feet in the coming weeks.
Feeling the brunt of the force from kids returning to school was last weeks runner up, Super Hero Movie and also St Trinian’s both falling a steep 64%. Also hurting, two time champ Horton and the breaks surprise hit Spiderwick Chronicles as both lost over half of their audience.
Holding up well however were the art house flicks Lars and The Real Girl and The Painted Veil which only lost a quarter. Of the rest, you can put a folk in both Definitely Maybe and Semi Pro as they’re done, -82% and -73% respectively.
Next week, look for What Happens in Vegas to burst Made of Honor’s bubble, as the star powered and more heavily promoted Vegas should win the battle of RomCom however it won’t expect it to put too much of a dent in Iron Man. Also opening for the more elder and wiser – I’m Still There.

May 6: WEEKEND NUMBERS ARE IN!!! Iron Man is super HUGE taking in 1.3m for the weekend alone! Made of Honor brings in a decent 250k and Dan in Real Life disapoints with only 72k.

REVIEWS ADDED THIS WEEK: [Made of Honor] [Dan in Real Life] [College Road Trip]

REVIEWS ADDED LAST WEEK: [Super Hero Movie] [The Spiderwick Chronicles] [Nim's Island]

FILM REVIEWS: [Street Kings] [Horton Hears a Who] [Lars and the Real Girls] [Definately, Maybe] [Never Back Down] [The Eye] [Gone Baby Gone] [3:10 to Yuma] [Vantage Point] [Step up 2 the Streets]