Movies Released on June 3, 2011

This Year In Movies - X-Men: First Class opens in wide release this weekend. The mutant franchise has the week to itself as it goes back to the 1960's origins the Professor X and Magneto split. It will be the fifth X-Men movie since the first debuted in the summer of 2000 and the second movie looking back an origin tale. The defining characteristic of the X-Men movies has been front-loaded opens and rapid drop-offs. Each successive film has grossed a progressively larger percentage of its total box office in the first weekend, culminating with Wolverine grossing over 47% all its theatrical revenue within the first three days. 20th Century Fox blamed the box office troubles on piracy, but still pulled in $85 million. That was less than the $103 million from X-men: The Last Stand, but in line with X2. Traders over at Hollywood Stock Exchange are looking for First Class' first weekend to come up short of $80 million. Adjusted for ticket prices, that would be the lowest debut for the franchise. However, with essentially a new lease of the franchise, perhaps First Class will turn around the declining post-opening weekend trend.

Last weekend in cinemas, The Hangover 2 beat even some of the most optimistic predictions by racking up a five-day total of nearly $138 million. The 3-day total was $86 million, nearly double the original's first weekend. However, even with the huge head start, Hangover 2 isn't ensured that it'll surpass the Las Vegas version's total box office of $277 million. A few weekend drops of over 50% for the Bangkok sequel and the original could hold on to its record. The news wasn't as great for Kung Fu Panda 2 in second place with $68 million over 5-days. Despite the holiday, Jack Black wasn't able to significantly outperform the original's ticket sales of $60 million in three days.... Read More
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Beautiful Boy poster

Beautiful Boy 4 theaters

Maria Bello Michael Sheen Alan Tudyk

When an unhappily married couple learns their teenage son is the shooter in a college campus massacre, they struggle to find refuge from both the media and their mutual g... more

Beginners poster

Beginners 5 theaters

Ewan McGregor Christopher Plummer Goran Visnjic Melanie Laurent

Beginners explores the hilarity, confusion, and surprises of love through the evolving consciousness of Oliver (Ewan McGregor). Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredicta... more

Empire of Silver poster

Empire of Silver Limited

Aaron Kwok

China, 1899. In a land of exquisite beauty and timeless tradition a young man known as ‘Third Master’ is the heir to a banking fortune he cares little about. However, af... more

Film Socialisme poster

Film Socialisme 1 theater

As a garish cruise ship travels the Mediterranean, Godard embarks on a state of the EU address in a vibrant collage of philosophical quotes, historical revelations and pu... more

Love, Wedding, Marriage poster

Love, Wedding, Marriage 2 theaters

Mandy Moore Kellan Lutz James Brolin Kathy Bates

The story centers on a newlywed marriage counselor (Mandy Moore) who is thrown for a loop when she learns that her parents, whose marriage she's always idealized, are hea... more

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Rejoice and Shout New York

A documentary that traces the evolution of Gospel through its many musical styles – the spirituals and early hymns, the four-part harmony-based quartets, the integration... more

Submarine poster

Submarine 4 theaters

Michael Sheen Paddy Considine Noah Taylor Sally Hawkins

A 15-year-old boy has two objectives: To lose his virginity before his next birthday, and to stop his mother from leaving his father for her dance teacher.

The Last Mountain poster

The Last Mountain New York

The mining and burning of coal is at the epicenter of America's struggle to balance its energy needs and environmental concerns, so the daring solution proposed by this s... more

The Lion of Judah poster

The Lion of Judah Limited

Ernest Borgnine Scott Eastwood Michael Madsen

The story of Easter as seen through the eyes of a pig, horse, rat, rooster, cow and donkey.

X-Men: First Class poster

X-Men: First Class 3,641 theaters

James McAvoy Michael Fassbender Nicholas Hoult Caleb Landry Jones

The film, following the classic Marvel mythology, charts the epic beginning of the X-Men saga. Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magn... more

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