By Katey Rich
I haven't been able to get the Indiana Jones theme out of my head all weekend, and neither has the rest of America. We as a nation sent the fourth Indy movie to a rollicking $101 million opening weekend, with an additional $50 million from its Thursday and Monday playdates. That makes it the second-best Memorial Day opening of all time, behind only last summer's Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. The crazy people who though Indy might best the five-day record set by Revenge of the Sith two years ago were disappointed, but otherwise, there are plenty of happy people on the Paramount lot.
Elsewhere, though, it's a mixed bag. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian managed to snag second place after last week's first-place bow, despite a 58% audience decline that resulted in a meager $28 million take for the weekend. (The rest of these figures will be for the three-day weekend period, by the way.) For contrast, look at Iron Man, which came in right behind it with $20 million despite having been in theatres for an extra two weeks. Given that Iron Man still holds the record for the biggest opening of the summer, we may see it hanging on even longer than some of these other upstart blockbusters.
The rest of the list was populated with some smaller numbers, all of them in the single-digit millions. What Happens in Vegas hung on OK at #4 with $9 million, well ahead of Speed Racer, which came in at #5 with a weak $3 million. Clustered right behind it were movies Speed Racer was intended to cream, like Made of Honor (at #6 with $3.3 million) and the ever-durable Baby Mama (#7, $3.3 million). All of these movies are quickly shedding theatres, as is Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which feels like it's been around forever but is still bringing in audiences, coming in at #8 with $1.7 million.
Rounding out the top ten were two movies that couldn't even break $1 million. (Shows you how much of the national audience Indy managed to eat.) Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay makes its last stop in the top ten with $940 K, while The Visitor keeps hanging on at #10, drawing in the adult audiences the summer blockbusters won't bother with; the indie drama netted $723 K, bringing its total to an impressive $4.3 million.
Given how much money is contained within the top ten this week, Box Office Mojo didn't even bother to number anything after #11 (Forbidden Kingdom, if you're interested). So check out the listings for the top ten after the jump, and just wait 'til next weekend, when yet another blockbuster comes out and the summer movie season rolls merrily along.
| TW | LW | Title (click to view) | Studio | Weekend Gross | % Change | Theater Count / Change | Average | Total Gross | Budget* | Week # | |
| 1 | N | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | Par. | $101,000,000 | - | 4,260 | - | $23,708 | $126,041,000 | $185 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 | The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian | BV | $23,032,000 | -58.2% | 3,929 | - | $5,862 | $91,077,000 | $200 | 2 |
| 3 | 2 | Iron Man | Par. | $20,142,000 | -36.7% | 3,915 | -239 | $5,144 | $252,309,000 | $140 | 4 |
| 4 | 3 | What Happens in Vegas | Fox | $9,000,000 | -35.2% | 3,188 | -67 | $2,823 | $54,246,000 | $35 | 3 |
| 5 | 4 | Speed Racer | WB | $3,975,000 | -51.0% | 3,112 | -494 | $1,277 | $36,188,000 | $120 | 3 |
| 6 | 5 | Made of Honor | Sony | $3,350,000 | -28.8% | 2,393 | -423 | $1,399 | $39,011,000 | $40 | 4 |
| 7 | 6 | Baby Mama | Uni. | $3,324,000 | -29.0% | 2,158 | -345 | $1,540 | $52,132,000 | $30 | 5 |
| 8 | 7 | Forgetting Sarah Marshall | Uni. | $1,752,000 | -37.1% | 1,078 | -523 | $1,625 | $58,281,000 | $30 | 6 |
| 9 | 8 | Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay | NL | $940,000 | -52.9% | 750 | -653 | $1,253 | $35,933,000 | $12 | 5 |
| 10 | 10 | The Visitor | Over. | $723,000 | +7.5% | 270 | +46 | $2,677 | $4,374,000 | - | 7 |
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