Tops at the Box Office: 5/3/10

1. A Nightmare on Elm Street- $32.2M
Freddy slashed up his lackluster competition this week, more than tripling his closest cinematic rival and besting the total run numbers of four of the original Nighmate films. Although it falls short of the most recent outing, Freddy vs. Jason, which debuted at $36.5M. Given the low production budget and relatively strong opening for a genre film like this, Michael Bay and his Platinum Dunes production house should be happy.

2. How to Train Your Dragon- $10.8M/$192M
Only $10M away from surpassing Kung Fu Panda as Dreamworks highest grossing film not sporting a talking donkey or foul smelling Ogre.

3. Date Night- $7.6M/$73.6M
This must be the longest date ever. Showing remarkable staying power as the clear cut best comedy out right now.

4. The Back-Up Plan- $7.24M/$22.9M
I'm sorry, I just can't write about this movie anymore. When I do, the pain comes flooding back.

5. Furry Vengeance- $6.5M
I'm not gonna talk about Furry Vengeance. Honestly I'm surprised it even charted. My major concern is that somewhere, there's a lousy studio exec who keeps greenlighting bad Brendan Fraser family films when history has shown he has no ability to draw that audience. Ever. Make another Mummy movie or something.

6. The Losers- $6M/$18.1M
Well this has been one big turdbucket, hasn't it? A reasonably strong hold from last week can't mask that The Losers has been one big loss for Warner Brothers, and another open chest punch to any comic book movies that don't sport recognizable characters. This doesn't bode well for a movie like Jonah Hex.

7. Clash of the Titans- $5.98M/$154M

8. Kick-Ass- $4.45M/$42.2M

9. Death at a Funeral- $4M/$34.8M

10. Oceans- $2.62M/$13.2M

Also....Iron Man 2 had it's big international debut 5 days ago, and already has crossed the $100M mark in that short amount of time. That surpasses the first film by roughly $1M. The big budget superhero flick is set to debut here in the US this coming Friday, May 7th.