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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [Richard Corliss](https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/) Aug 24, 2009 4:00 AM UTC  Brad Pitt in Inglourious Basterds Brad Pitt in Inglourious Basterds Francois Duhamel / The Weinstein Co. by [Richard Corliss](https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/) Aug 24, 2009 4:00 AM UTC _Inglourious Basterds_ is a 2½-hr. period piece — a war movie with no battle scenes and lots of talk, most of it in French or German. Except for Brad Pitt, all of its main actors are unknown to the mass American audience. Its writer-director’s last film, _Grindhouse_, earned only $25 million in its entire domestic run. And Harvey Weinstein, whose troubled company is distributing _Basterds_, was widely quoted as telling _GQ_, “It isn’t funny; it isn’t exciting … It isn’t emotionally involving … Brad Pitt gives the worst performance of his life.” Actually, those words weren’t Weinstein’s; they were from Peter Bradshaw’s early review of the movie in the _Guardian_. But the appearance of the misquote on so many websites spread the idea that _Basterds_ was an iffy business proposition, and that its Friday opening might prove to be a night of the long knives. [(Read TIME’s _Inglourious Basterds_ review.)](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1917595,00.html) Instead, it was V-E Day. Quentin Tarantino’s epic rewrite of World War II marched victoriously across 3,165 North American movie screens to exceed all industry expectations and earn $37.6 million, according to official studio estimates. That made it the best opening ever for an August release, and by far the best weekend numbers for the auteur of _Pulp Fiction_ and _Kill Bill_. As a box-office winner, this might be Tarantino’s masterpiece. And since the decline from Friday to Saturday was a relatively gentle 10%, the indication is that the R-rated _Basterds_ has an appeal beyond Tarantino’s base of avid fanboys, most of whom would have clogged the theaters on opening day regardless of any bad press. The movie also took in a robust $27.5 million abroad, where many Europeans could finally see a Hollywood adventure film made in some of their own languages. [(See pictures of World War II movies.)](https://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1917554,00.html) After a few weekends when movies pitched to women and kids broke into the upper echelon of the box office top 10, this dog-day frame was dominated by three hard-charging guy films, each aiming for essentially the same audience. Last week’s No. 1, the South African alien-apartheid thriller _District 9_, lost 49% of its opening audience but snagged the second-place position with $18.9 million, for a 10-day domestic total of $73 million — not bad for a movie budgeted at just $30 million. _G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra_ picked up another $12.5 million to finish third. In 16 days the testosterone-toy action film has earned more than $120 million in North America and another $100 million abroad, increasing prospects for a sequel. (There’s already been talk this weekend of a _Basterds_ prequel. Strong opening numbers make anything possible.) The rest of the top 10 was neatly segregated into femme-friendly films (_The Time Traveler’s Wife_ in fourth place; _Julie & Julia_ in fifth), movies for kids (_Shorts_, making its debut in sixth place, followed by _G-Force_ and _Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince_) and two comedies about emotionally stranded young women (Katherine Heigl’s _The Ugly Truth_ in ninth and the new _Post Grad_ in 10th). Robert Rodriguez, Tarantino’s co-director on _Grindhouse_, makes some movies (_Sin City_) for the Tarantino crowd and others, like _Shorts_, for youngsters. Not many members of either demographic came to his minor effort about a magic rock in a suburban town. As for _Post Grad_, it top-lined Alexis Bledel (who would make anyone’s list of the five most adorable humans), but the presence of the _Gilmore Girls_ and _Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants_ star couldn’t draw flies to the movie. Its $2.8 million weekend take was one of the lowest of the season for a major studio wide release … unless you count _X Games 3D: The Movie_, which Disney opened on 1,400 screens to an abysmal $800,000\. In a much more limited opening — four theaters — the family romance _My One and Only_ pulled in a sparse $60,000\. That wouldn’t be worth mentioning, except that its leading lady, Renée Zellweger, used to be a movie star. No, this weekend’s triumphant triumvirate was the suddenly glourious Brad, Quentin and Harvey. _Basterds_‘ first-weekend success was so explosive that it might resolve the real suspense surrounding the movie: not whether some resourceful Jews could defeat Hitler in 1944, but whether Tarantino’s $70 million production could save the Weinstein Co. from deep financial distress and possible bankruptcy. In both cases, the answer could be an improbable but ringing _yes!_ Here are the studios’ official weekend estimates for the top 10 movies, as reported by Box Office Mojo: 1\. _Inglourious Basterds_, $37.6 million, first weekend 2\. _District 9_, $18/$9 million; $73.5 million, second week 3\. _G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra_, $12.5 million; $120.5 million, third week 4\. _The Time Traveler’s Wife_, $10 million; $37.4 million, second week 5\. _Julie & Julia_, $9 million; $59.3 million, third week 6\. _Shorts_, $6.6 million, first weekend 7\. _G-Force_, $4.2 million; $107.3 million, fifth week 8\. _Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince_, $3.5 million; $290.3 million, sixth week 9\. _The Ugly Truth_, $2.9 million; $82.9 million, fifth week 10\. _Post Grad_, $2.8 million, first weekend [See TIME’s 10 Questions for Jeremy Piven.](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1917448,00.html) [Visit RottenTomatoes.com for more about _Inglourious Basterds_.](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/inglourious%5Fbasterds) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910261/box-office-weekend-the-basterds-are-glourious/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910261/box-office-weekend-the-basterds-are-glourious/"},"headline":"Box-Office Weekend: The Basterds Are Glourious","datePublished":"2009-08-24T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-22T16:02:44.841Z","description":"Inglourious Basterds is a 2½-hr. period piece — a war movie with no battle scenes and lots of talk, most of it in French or...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6910261/box-office-weekend-the-basterds-are-glourious/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt490ec0b3974037d7/698a4b41d075333fb3e6f978/360_box_office_0819.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/blt490ec0b3974037d7/698a4b41d075333fb3e6f978/360_box_office_0819.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"360_box_office_0819.jpg","caption":"Brad Pitt in Inglourious Basterds","creditText":"Francois Duhamel / The Weinstein Co.","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":"https://time.com/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910261/box-office-weekend-the-basterds-are-glourious/","name":"Box-Office Weekend: The Basterds Are Glourious"}}]}] ```