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Last week,s big prequel, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which still holds this year's opening-weekend record with the $85 million, toppled an expected 68% to place second. The Matthew McConaughey rom-com Ghosts of Girlfriends Past won the show position with a more demure drop of 32%; but it wasn't falling from lofty heights, more stepping off a curb. Beyonce's Obsessed and the Zac Efron 17 Again filled out the top five. Less successful at reviving a dormant film form - the 1970s blaxploitation comedy - was the druggy Next Day Air, which took in just $4 million...
...X-Men Origins: Wolverine, a prequel to three Marvel hits, with Jackman serving this time as star and producer, grossed a burly $87 million at the North American box office. McConaughey's Ghosts of Girlfriends Past earned $15.3 million. The totals nearly replicated those of last year's first May weekend, when Marvel's Iron Man took in $98.6 million to $14.8 million for the Patrick Dempsey romantic comedy Made of Honor. Shrugging off tepid reviews, Wolverine proved that Hugh is huge, movie-starwise, as long as he carries cutlery between his knuckles. In its first two days' release...
...X-Men Origins: Wolverine, $87 million, first weekend 2. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, $15.3 million, first weekend 3. Obsessed, $12.2 million; $47 million, 10 days 4. 17 Again, $6.,4 million; $48.5 million, 17 days 5. Monsters Vs. Aliens, $5.8 million; $182.4 million, 38 days 6. The Soloist, $5.6 million; $18.1 million, 10 days 7. Earth, $4.2 million; $21.8 million, 12 days 8. Fighting, $4.2 million; $17.5 million, 10 days 9. Hannah Montana: The Movie, $4.1 million; $70.9 million, 24 days 10. State of Play, $3.7 million; $30.9 million, 17 days
...would be caught dead trying to appeal to women. McConaughey not only consents, he does it with a cheerful grace, as if he actually enjoys appearing in crappy films that lure the ladies. When Ghosts of Girlfriends Past opened last night - earning a decent $6 million, but nowhere near X-Men Origins: Wolverine's $35 million - it performed best among Females Over 25. In that demographic, McConaughey ranks high, up there with Pilates, Jodi Picoult novels and The View...
...X-Men Origins: Wolverine is an O.K., not great, Marvel movie that tells the early story of the prime X-Man, and attempts to make it climax in a perfect coupling with the start of the known trilogy. In doing so, the film tears off a bit more than it can devour. The whole enterprise now spans a century and a half, runs backward and forward in time and expands the number of characters in the mythology, so they'll get their own prequels and sequels...