Judd Apatow and Adam Sandler’s R-rated Funny People topped the box office this past weekend, ringing up $22.7 million. Still, it was overall a down three-day frame for Hollywood compared to last year — down roughly 20 percent, in fact — when The Dark Knight continued its Sherman’s March through American filmgoers’ wallets, pulling in just over $42 million in its fourth weekend of release, en route to a whopping $533 million domestic haul.
Rounding out the weekend’s top 10 were Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, with $17.9 million ($255.7 million overall); producer Jerry Bruckheimer’s G-Force, with $17.5 million ($66.9 million in two weeks of release); R-rated rom-com The Ugly Truth, with $13.2 million ($54.7 million overall); fellow new opener Aliens in the Attic, with just over $8 million; Orphan, with $7.5 million ($27.1 million cumulatively); Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, with $5.5 million ($182.1 million overall); a still-robust The Hangover, with $5.2 million ($255.9 million in sum); The Proposal, with $4.9 million and $149 million in seven weeks of release; and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which added another $4.7 million to its coffers, and now stands at just over $388 million domestically. Debuting just outside the top 10, meanwhile, was horror flick The Collector, the directorial debut of Feast co-writer Marcus Dunston, with $3.6 million on 1,325 screens.