X-MEN - X-MEN: THE ONE-WEEK STAND

Box-office analysts were left with a sizable serving of crow on their plates after their predictions that X-Men: The Last Stand was certain to remain the top ticket seller over the weekend were broken up by The Break Up. According to studio estimates, the Jennifer Aniston-Vince Vaughn romantic comedy opened with $38.1 million, well above the $25-30 million that was predicted, while the X-Men movie tumbled 67 percent to $34.35 million, the biggest second-weekend decline ever for a Memorial Day tentpole film. Meanwhile, DreamWorks Animation's Over the Hedge dropped just 24 percent in its third week as it grossed $20.6 million to come in third. The Da Vinci Code continued its swift decline, falling 43 percent to $19.3 million, landing in fourth place. Perhaps the most surprising performance of all was that for the Al Gore global-warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which grossed $1.3 million in just 77 theaters, or an average of $17,292 per theater. By contrast, The Break-Up, which opened on 3,070 screens, averaged $12,395 per theater.

The top ten films for the weekend, according to studio estimates compiled by Exhibitor Relations:
1. The Break-Up, $38.1 million; 2. X-Men: The Last Stand, $34.35 million; 3. Over the Hedge, $20.6 million; 4. The Da Vinci Code, $19.3 million; 5. Mission: Impossible III, $4.67 million; 6. Poseidon, $3.4 million; 7. RV, $3.3 million; 8. See No Evil, $2 million; 9. An Inconvenient Truth, $1.33 million; 10. Just My Luck, $825,000.

05/06/2006