In a summer packed with super hero movies, the last superhero, aka The First Avenger, aka Captain America, had the highest opening gross weekend of all the super hero movies. Captain America: The First Avenger made an estimated $65.8 million as opposed to Thor’s $65.7 million, Green Lantern’s $53.2 million and X-Men: First Class’s $55.1 million.
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2 added another $48.1 million to it’s cauldron, which was off 72 percent from it’s opening weekend. That 72 sounds like a lot but considering the opening weekend frenzy, it puts the movie roughly on par with Hallows Part 1 and is still the fastest grossing Potter film ever.
Here is the top ten for the weekend of July 22-24, 2011:
1 Captain America: The First Avenger ($65,827,000)
2 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 ($48,065,000)
3 Friends with Benefits ($18,500,000)
4 Transformers: Dark of the Moon ($12,000,000)
5 Horrible Bosses ($11,720,000)
6 Zookeeper ($8,700,000)
7 Cars 2 ($5,726,000)
8 Winnie the Pooh ($5,141,000)
9 Bad Teacher ($2,600,000)
10 Midnight in Paris ($1,899,000)