“The Winners and Losers of 2009’s Record Setting Summer”

The first of many summer-box-office-in-review articles, this one from Bethany Perryman at FilmSchoolRejects:

This Year’s Top Ten:
(click each title to read our review)

1. $399.4 mil: Transformers: Revenge of the the Fallen

2. $294.3 mil: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

3. $289.6 mil: Up

4. $270.2 mil: The Hangover (Record Breaker! Highest grossing R-rated comedy of all time.)

5. $256.7 mil: Star Trek

6. $193.3 mil: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

7. $179 mil: X-Men Origins: Wolverine

8. $176.5 mil: Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian

9. $160 mil: The Proposal (Record Breaker! Highest grossing summer rom-com of all time.)

10. $133.4 mil: Angels and Demons (Record Breaker! Only movie in the Top 10 Box Office Hits of Summer 2009 to likely be overtaken by G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra…in about two hours.)

Honorable Mention: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra comes in at #11 (for now…), with $132.2 million, after four weeks in theaters.

Bethany’s analysis:

Winner: CGI

Loser: Sacha Baron Cohen

Winner: Escapism

Loser: Actors who are famous & makes lots of money

And the big winner: Franchise films

Read the whole article here.