USA Weekend Box-Office - Week of May 22-25, 2009

1. Night at the Museum 2 $53.5 Million
2. Terminator Salvation    $43 Million 
3. Star Trek                    $21.9 Million 
4. Angels and Demons     $21.4 Million
5. Dance Flick                 $11.1 Million
6. Wolverine                   $7.8 Million 
7. Ghosts of...                $3.7 Million
8. Obsessed                   $2 Million
9. Monsters vs Aliens       $1.3 Million 
10. 17 Again                  $1 Million

Is anyone surprised at Night at the Museum 2 beating Terminator Salvation?  Reakky, I read all these box office reports on what a shock, however 9 out of 10 times a family movie will beat a action or drama genre movie.  T4 did good considering this is not a rebootof the franchise but an ongoing story of the previous movies.  while the movie is not fresh like the new Star Trek, us Terminator fans want to see what is going to happen, it's like Star Wars Ep 1 ,2 and 3 we need a to know the entire story and who wins the battle. 

Look for UP and Drag me to Hell to give this weeks top 3 a run.  While Drag me to Hell is not a huge expensive movie it has dtrong word of mouth and you can never be know how these type of movies will perform.