Universals romantic comedy, THE BREAK-UP, debuted at $39.1M, good enough to upend Foxs X-MEN: THE LAST STAND from the top spot at the box office for the weekend ended June 4, 2006. After its record Memorial opening, THE LAST STAND (with vfx from Cinesite, Framestore CFC, MPC and Weta Digital, among others) dropped to second place with $34M and a cume of $175.3M. DreamWorks animated comedy, OVER THE HEDGE, held the third spot with $20.6M and a cume of $112.3M. Sonys THE DA VINCI CODE (with vfx from MPC, Rainmaker UK and Double Negative) fell to fourth with $18.6M and a cume of $171.9M. Paramounts MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III (with vfx from ILM) followed in fifth with $4.6M and a tally of $122.6M. Scoring sixth was Warner Bros. POSEIDON (also with vfx from ILM and MPC), which took in $3.4M for a cume of $51.7M. Sonys RV finished seventh with $3.2M and $61.7M. Lionsgates SEE NO EVIL came in eighth with $2M and a cume of $12.4M. The Al Gore global warming doc, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, cracked the top 10 for Paramount Classics, finishing ninth with $1.3M and a cume of $1.9M. Placing 10th was Foxs JUST MY LUCK, which collected $854,653 for a cume of $15.6M. Box office information obtained from boxofficemojo.com.
Bill Desowitz, former editor of VFXWorld, is currently the Crafts Editor of IndieWire.
