The Hangover Part II. Despite numerous genre fare saturating theaters, audiences chose to throw down their holiday cash to another bachelor party-gone-wrong scenario which once again found the Wolf Pack a “man short.” With Warner Bros. Pictures grabbing another $59.0 million from its early foreign markets over the holiday, the comedic adventure has a worldwide cume of $177.0 million after four days of release. It’s a nice overall effort for a film which reportedly cost only $80 million to produce. Exit polling from the studio reveals the release’s audience was 51 percent female and 54 percent under 25 years old. The under 18-year-old bracket was 13 percent. The first Hangover was 52 percent male and 53 percent under 25 in its opening weekend.
Following in 2nd place was the premiere of DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda 2, which kicked up $48 million over the weekend and $53.8 million since with its Thursday performance tacked on. While that seems like a decent number, the rising animation powerhouse which has dreams of making Kung Fu Panda a lengthy franchise was hoping their Jack Black-led sequel would at least beat out the debut of its predecessor, which pulled in $60.2 million in June of 2008. Their latest release opened up overseas with a payday of $57.0 million and when combined with the domestic total comes up to a global score of $110.8 million. The studio set the budget at $150 million.
Taking down the 3rd place position is last weekend’s champion, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. A week after taking down $350 million worldwide over its debut performance, the fourth installment in the Jack Sparrow brand conjured up another $39.3 million in booty to increase its domestic gross to $152.9 million. It may seem average results for the film listed at $250 million but it’s the oversea performance that continues to keep Disney happy here. The fantasy dominated the foreign box office race once again by grabbing another $122.8 million. This means the film has $470.8 million from its oversee territories while only seizing $152 here at home. Whichever way you look it, Pirates 4 is now the top worldwide performer for the summer 2011 season. Check it out in the box office ladder down below.
Next up is Bridesmaids, the female-focused raunchy comedy that continued to give Universal an incredible May performance. The comedy found another $16.3 million in its third weekend, dropping only 21% from its previous effort and adding that domestic tally to $84.9 million. It’s a profitable venture for the studio who kept its budget down to only $32.5 million.
And taking down the 5th place spot is Paramount Pictures’ Thor, which crossed its $150 million price tag this weekend and hammered its way past the $400 million threshold worldwide. It accomplished both feats by taking in another $9.3 million over the holiday. The fourth frame’s numbers has its domestic gross at $159.7 million. When combined with its foreign sales, the superhero has a global tally of $409.2 million. Mania.com
| Rank | Movie | Weekend | Theaters | Average | Total | Budget |
| 1 | The Hangover 2 | $86.4 mil | 3,615 | $23,923 | $118.0 mil | $80 |
| 2 | Kung Fu Panda 2 | $48.0 mil | 3,925 | $12,229 | $53.8 mil | $150 |
| 3 | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | $39.3 mil | 4,164 | $9,443 | $152.9 mil | $250 |
| 4 | Bridesmaids | $16.3 mil | 2,958 | $5,535 | $84.9 mil | $32.5 |
| 5 | Thor | $9.3 mil | 3,296 | $2,841 | $159.7 mil | $150 |
| 6 | Fast Five | $6.6 mil | 2,982 | $2,219 | $196.0 mil | $125 |
| 7 | Midnight in Paris | $1.9 mil | 58 | $33,086 | $2.8 mil | $30 |
| 8 | Jumping the Broom | $1.9 mil | 939 | $2,023 | $34.1 mil | $6.6 |
| 9 | Something Borrowed | $1.8 mil | 1,440 | $1,281 | $34.7 mil | $35 |
| 10 | Rio | $1.7 mil | 1,672 | $1,065 | $134.8 mil | $90 |
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