Inception Tops Box Office for Second Straight Weekend

Posted on Monday, July 26, 2010 at 7:37 pm by George

Inception racked up an impressive $42.7 million this weekend, dropping just 32% from its $62.3 million opening according to Box Office Mojo. That strong hold (the smallest second weekend drop so far this year) was enough to top Angelina Jolie’s Salt, a close #2 with a solid $36 million weekend. Inception‘s domestic total now stands at $142.8 million, just shy of the reported $160 million production cost. The film should pass $200 million next week, and Dan Fellman, head of distribution at Warner Bros, thinks Inception “has a good shot at topping $300 million.”

Foreign tallies for Inception have reached an estimated $84 million, bringing the worldwide gross to $226.9 million after 10 days.

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rake in that money!
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LuDean

Well I did my part by seeing it three times and bringing friends.
Slask

I will watch it at least 2 times
Shannon

Get it done Christopher & Co.!! <3
DarkKnight

Already seen it twice. I will likely see it a third time with family when I go down to visit them. I’m glad to see it doing so well at the box office. Nolan deserves it.
Chee

I really wanna see Dinner for Schmucks this weekend. But at the same time I want to go for my third viewing of Inception. D:
EMIRC-DNIM

Yeah I’ve seen it twice now with friends/family, both times in IMAX. Planning on going again… IN IMAX!!! You deserve it, Mr. Nolan and every other person who made this movie possible.
vinay

damn.. booked my tickets for saturday.. finally arriving here~~
ThePhantomTerror

Everyone should thank Nolan and crew for making the best movie in 2010!!
vinay

its already at 229m worldwide.. i asume its gonna pass 300m soon its still to be released in some countries…friday here in south africa and even in most european counties towards end August early September..

Chris Nolan ceertainly only makes blockbusters
http://leitourgeia.wordpress.com Richard Barrett

“Chris Nolan certainly only makes blockbusters.”

Nolan’s track record on box office gross (North American only for our purposes):

Following: $48,482 (budget: $6,000)
Memento: $25,544,867 (budget: $9 million)
Insomnia: $67,355,513 (budget: $46 million)
Batman Begins: $205,343,774 (budget: $150 million)
The Prestige: $53,089,891 (budget: $40 million)
The Dark Knight: $533,345,358 (budget: $185 million)

(source: http://boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?view=Director&id=christophernolan.htm)

So, they haven’t quite all been blockbusters. The Dark Knight grossed more than all of his other movies combined, including Inception (so far).

What they did all manage to do, most importantly, was make money.

I’d love to see Inception make it to around $300 million in North America and prove that there’s an audience out there for visionary original storytelling even when it isn’t the built-in audience of a pre-existing property.

Richard
mike

i dont know richard i think you are missing the larger point. why should it matter how much it makes to nolanfans? you are either somebody who likes iron man 2 or not. what i mean is why should we care the truth is that most ppl are not smart and this is why they like transformers and shrek.
mike

i have a question for anyone who saw the dark knight in imax and inception as well……….was inception as good as TDK?
MLT

I saw Inception last Sunday and LOVED it. I want to watch it again. How long do you guys think it’ll stay in US theaters? I was thinking about seeing it August 14 or 15 (that’s when I will have some free time)..
MLT

@mike…TDK and Inception are incomparable. You’ll enjoy the film because it was created by Nolan and the music’s score was composed by Hans Zimmer.

Anyone who enjoyed TDK should see Inception twice. Support Nolan.
http://leitourgeia.wordpress.com Richard Barrett

mike: I was specifically referring to somebody’s assertion that “Nolan makes only blockbusters.” Let’s not kid ourselves that every movie of his has done Dark Knight business. They’ve all made money, which is why he’s gotten to make better and better movies each time, but they haven’t all been ginormous hits by a long shot.

I own all of Nolan’s feature films on DVD or Blu-Ray, saw Memento, Batman Begins, and The Prestige three times in theatres, The Dark Knight eight times in theatres, and have seen Inception four times in theatres, so hopefully it’s clear I’m not making any comments about Nolan’s quality of work.
mike

what i was wondering is if it it worth travelling an hour to see inception in imax??? my understanding is that TDK was great in imax and i want to know if inception is too
http://www.nolanfans.com AlexHaas

@mike TDK was more worth seeing in IMAX because it has scenes /filmed/ in IMAX. Inception doesn’t.
Santosh

@Mike: I think an IMAX visit is recommended. I travelled 10 hours to another city (with an IMAX screen) and saw it twice there, that city being Hyderabad in India. I saw it first in a multiplex here and I do think that the IMAX viewing is more enjoyable and thrilling! Hope this helps!!!
EMIRC-DNIM

IMAX is wayyyyyy better. This movie would still be flippin’ sweet if you watched it on a cell phone though. In other words, when you’re watching the best movie ever made (INCEPTION), it doesn’t matter where you watch it, it’s still gonna’ be the best movie ever made! But IMAX does make it a wee bit better.
mike

look at the far left at nolan. something about this picture……….

http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/1yudN4Xcky9/Leonardo+DiCaprio+Ellen+Page+Film+Inception/wIX68y1s-Yr/Leonardo+DiCaprio
Saurabh

I first viewed it in Imax, mumbai in India.
Alas, couldn’t experience TDK in it. Btw, the audience here went crazy over the hallway fight and the ending. Going for my fourth viewing next week. I think more than our faith in Nolan, his faith in the audience’s intelligence has paid off.
EMIRC-DNIM

@mike, lmao. That’s the best picture from the set of this movie I have ever seen. He looks like he may have accidently just “went” in his pants.
Glass

Money-ay.