1. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian - $53.5 million ($53.5 million)

2. Terminator Salvation - $43 million ($56.3 million)

3. Star Trek - $21.9 million ($183.5 million)

4. Angels & Demons - $21.4 million ($81.5 million)

5. Dance Flick - $11.1 million ($11.1 million)

6. X-Men Origins: Wolverine - $7.8 million ($163 million)

7. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past - $3.7 million ($45.8 million)

8. Obsessed - $2 million ($65.9 million)

9. Monsters vs. Aliens - $1.3 million ($192.9 million)

10. 17 Again - $1 million ($60.3 million)

 

In a rather amazing turn of events, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian topped Terminator: Salvation to debut #1 at the box office with $53.4 million. The film had a budget of $150 million, outdoing Salvation's $43 million opening take. T4 has actually made $56.3 million since opening Thursday, and had a budget of $200 million. Check out our review of that bittersweet joyride here.

 

Star Trek fell one spot to #3 with $21.9 million for a running total of $183.5 million. Angels & Demons, meanwhile, fell three spots to #4 with $21.4 million, while Dance Flick debuted #5 at the box office with $11.1 million, under a budget of $25 million.

 

-Los Angeles Times writer Geoff Boucher was recently shown 25 minutes of footage from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and he reports that the footage showed advancements in the robots. "The robots this time around are more impressive in their movement, intricacy and emotives," he said, before going on to contradict director Michael Bay's assessment that the film would be "darker" than the original. 

 

 

According to Boucher, this one's geared toward the kids. "He showed me a sequence with a cranky new Autobot with a lot of stylized personality (think of a windy old geezer with the metallic equivalent of a braided beard) and he mentioned that the smaller robots will be a key part of this film," Boucher said. "Tom Kenny (the star voice of SpongeBob SquarePants) and ubiquitous voice veteran Frank Welker are onboard and I think little kids in particular are going to seize on this movie."