The big news of the weekend after "Superman's" tumble was "The Devil Wears Prada." Box Office Prophets (who presumably have access to tracking numbers, etc.) bizarrely suggested the movie would be lucky to gross $50 mil. Now that it's proven classic counterprogramming to "Superman" (whose biggest failure was packing in the gals; sorry, Brandon), BOP claims it "came out of nowhere" to gross $27 mil. Uh, no. A massive bestseller with huge name recognition, a classic hook (the boss from hell) and Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway pounding the pavement to promote it did not come out of nowhere. It's going to have great word of mouth, too, since the movie is better than expected and Streep is sensational.
1. Superman Returns -- $52.2 mil ($84.2 mil total)
2. The Devil Wears Prada -- $27 mil
3. Click -- $19.4 ($77.9 mil)
4. Cars -- $14 mil ($182.1 mil)
5. Nacho Libre -- $6.2 mil ($65 mil)
6. The Lake House -- $4.5 mil ($38.7 mil)
7. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift -- $4.4 mil ($51.7 mil)
8. Waist Deep -- $3.3 mil ($15.2 mil)
9. The Break-Up -- $2.8 mil ($110.1 mil)
10. The Da Vinci Code -- $2.3 mil ($209.8 mil)
11. The X-Men: The Last Stand -- $2.1 mil ($228.5 mil)
12. Garfield: A Tale Of Two Kitties -- $2.0 mil ($21.5 mil)
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