Box Office Stats May 8 - 10

The battle of the summer movies really kicked into high gear this weekend as the second major summer blockbuster released this season, Star Trek, stood against the first, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and decidedly beat it into submission. Star Trek brought in $72.5 million, including over $7 million from Thursday night previews. Granted, this opening did not surpass Wolverine's $80 Million plus but it does seem to indicate that Star Trek has the legs to be a bigger earner overall, especially counting the whopping 63% drop for Wolverine.

Star Trek has pretty much positive reviews from everyone where as Wolverine is the exact opposite. Star Trek also had other hurdles to overcome including the stigma of its own franchise, the possible ire of die hard fans, and lackluster performing previous sequels. It looks like every one of those worries have been eliminated.

The other some what major film opening this weekend was Next Day Air which opened in sixth place with $4 million.

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1 ... Star Trek ... $72,500,000
2 ... X-Men Origins: Wolverine ... $27,000,000
3 ... Ghosts of Girlfriends Past ... $10,450,000
4 ... Obsessed ... $6,600,000
5 ... 17 Again ... $4,405,000
6 ... Next Day Air ... $4,000,000
7 ... The Soloist ... $3,605,000
8 ... Monsters Vs. Aliens ... $3,379,000
9 ... Earth (2009) ... $2,488,000
10 ... Hannah Montana The Movie ... $2,414,000