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Final numbers are posted on Monday. [(Read TIME’s review of _Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince._)](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1910165,00.html) _G-Force_ was one more win for [über-producer Jerry Bruckheimer](https://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1912412,00.html), supreme entrepreneur of movie pirates and car-crash films and a slew of chalk-outline TV hits. His notion of _The Dirty Dozen_ for rodents corralled the kid audience, luring it from a first or second look at the latest Hogwarts adventure. _Half-Blood_ dropped a precipitous 61% from its opening Friday-to-Sunday engagement, as if the vast army of Harryphiles had belatedly discovered that the new Defense of the Dark Arts teacher was Brüno. [(See TIME’s 10 Questions for Jerry Bruckheimer.)](https://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1912412,00.html) Top finisher among films with nonwizard human beings was [_The Ugly Truth_](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1912488,00.html), the R-rated Katherine Heigl–Gerard Butler romantic comedy that survived libelous reviews to earn a perky $27 million. If the figures hold through the next few weeks, Heigl will have joined Sandra Bullock (whose _The Proposal_ has crossed the $140 million mark at the domestic box office) as the rare female star who can deliver large crowds to really crappy movies. Finishing the weekend just behind _The Ugly Truth_, but with less than half its take, was the adopted-child horror film _The Orphan_. Cruising along were _Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs_ and _Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen_, in fifth and sixth place, respectively. The rampaging-bots movie has earned $379.1 million thus far in North America, more than twice what the woolly cartoon has amassed. However, _Ice Age 3_ is mammoth abroad, taking in nearly half a billion dollars and outgrossing _Transformers 2_ (though it opened a week later). The _G-Force_ ads read, “Gadgets, Gizmos, Guinea Pigs. In 3-D.” The difference between the top two films may have been the surcharge audiences pay to see a movie while wearing goggles. _G-Force_ played in 1,600 IMAX theaters, while _Half-Blood_ played in just three (by the time Warner Bros. pushed back the _Potter_ release date from last November to midsummer, nearly all the IMAX venues had been reserved for _Transformers 2_ and _Ice Age 3_). _Potter_‘s IMAX number increases to 164 on July 29, and with many fans likely to return for the full-screen experience, you can expect a much more modest drop next week. In indie rom-com business, the sentimentally schadenfreude _(500) Days of Summer_ expanded to 85 theaters and finished 11th with $1.6 million and a passionate $19,000 per-screen average; Woody Allen’s alterkocker altercation _Whatever Works_ pushed over the $4 million mark in its sixth week; the smug-alert road movie _Away We Go_ inched near $9 million in its eighth week; and the Jeff Daniels crabby-guru valentine _The Answer Man_ was DOA, opening to a lame $13,000 on six screens. As for the two critically acclaimed but otherwise very different Iraq-related movies, _The Hurt Locker_ has hit $4 million in five weeks of limited release, and the new [_In the Loop_](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1912854,00.html), a salubriously savage comedy about the Anglo-American ramp-up to the war, cadged a shock-and-awe $200,000 at just eight theaters. The weekend boasted no new fanboy action adventure, perhaps because a substantial portion of the young male audience was either attending or reading blogs about Comic-Con, the annual San Diego convention that began as a comix meet-and-greet show and, in the past few years, has undergone the same kind of Hollywood invasion that the Sundance Film Festival did in the mid-’90s. James Cameron showed clips from _Avatar_, due to open in December. _Rings_\-master Peter Jackson was there, as were Pixar’s John Lasseter and Hayao Miyazaki, the 2-D animation Yoda whose _Ponyo_ opens next month. For the nerd-world gang, that was like Brad _and_ Angelina dropping by for dinner. When Comic-Con is in session, what plugged-in dweeb needs to go to the movies? Here are the studios’ official weekend estimates for the top 10 movies, as reported by Box Office Mojo: 1\. _G-Force_, $32.1 million, first weekend 2\. _Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince_, $30 million; $221.8 million, second week 3\. _The Ugly Truth_, $27 million, first weekend 4\. _The Orphan_, $12.7 million, first weekend 5\. _Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs_, $8.2 million; $171.3 million, fourth week 6\. _Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen_, $8 million; $379.1 million, fifth week 7\. _The Hangover_, $6.5 million; $247.1 million, eighth week 8\. _The Proposal_, $6.4 million; $140.1 million, sixth week 9\. _Public Enemies_, $4.2 million; $88.1 million, fourth week 10\. _Brüno_, $2.7 million; $56.5 million, third week [Visit RottenTomatoes.com for reviews of _G-Force_.](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10009462-g%5Fforce/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910203/box-office-weekend-g-force-overruns-potter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910203/box-office-weekend-g-force-overruns-potter/"},"headline":"Box-Office Weekend: G-Force Overruns Potter","datePublished":"2009-07-27T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-22T16:01:34.804Z","description":"Draco Malfoy and the slimy kids of Slytherin couldn't have wreaked more damage for Harry Potter than a bunch of commando guinea pigs did for...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6910203/box-office-weekend-g-force-overruns-potter/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt97389a2c9cba39da/698a4b374ee2620e0331cf3d/360_gforce_0720.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Richard Corliss","url":"https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt97389a2c9cba39da/698a4b374ee2620e0331cf3d/360_gforce_0720.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"360_gforce_0720.jpg","caption":"A scene from G-Force","creditText":"Disney","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910203/box-office-weekend-g-force-overruns-potter/","name":"Box-Office Weekend: G-Force Overruns Potter"}}]}] ```