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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/) Apr 11, 2010 4:00 AM UTC  Tina Fey, Steve Carell and Mark Wahlberg in a scene from Date Night Tina Fey, Steve Carell and Mark Wahlberg in a scene from Date Night Suzanne Tenner / 20th Century Fox / AP by [Richard Corliss](https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/) Apr 11, 2010 4:00 AM UTC **News Item A:** The romantic comedy _Date Night_, starring Steve Carell of _The Office_ and _30 Rock_‘s Tina Fey as a married couple in peril, won the weekend box-office race, narrowly beating last week’s champ, _Clash of the Titans_. NBC’s prime-time lineup on Thursday may no longer be “Must See TV,” but two of the network’s Thursday stalwarts paired for a Must See Moo-vee. [(See TIME’s review of _Date Night_.)](https://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1978775,00.html) **News Item B:** The mythological adventure _Clash of the Titans_ was No. 1 for a second week, narrowly defeating the Steve Carell–Tina Fey romantic comedy _Date Night_ and proving the box-office muscle of movies released in 3-D. This was the 13th week in the past 17 that a 3-D picture has topped the weekend tally. Actually, we don’t yet know who won the battle of Greek-myth fighting and rom-com fun. 20th Century Fox posted a weekend total for _Date Night_ of $27.1 million at the North American box office, while Warner Bros. said that _Clash of the Titans_ had earned $26,875,000\. That’s a difference of just $225,000, or less than 1%. The final, actual grosses will come out on Monday afternoon. Here’s the deal: when the studios release their weekend grosses on Sunday morning, they have hard numbers for Friday, rough estimates for Saturday, and for Sunday they use a combination of exit-polling, comparison of their movies with others in the same genre, bracketology and tea leaves. In other words, they guess. Sometimes they guess wrong. On the first Sunday of June last year, Warner Bros. announced that its new comedy _The Hangover_ had taken in $43.3 million, which made it second to Pixar’s animated feature _Up_, at $44.2 million. The final count showed that _The Hangover_ had surged on Sunday to earn $1.6 million more than predicted, which made it that weekend’s champ by $840,000\. Why, then, do studios race to provide guesstimates when the weekend isn’t over? Because there’s usually not much news on Sunday, and the hit films get free publicity on that day’s news shows. Marketing trumps math. [(See pictures of movies that remake the ’80s.)](https://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1977221,00.html) \[**MONDAY UPDATE:** The final numbers produced a mild upset. _Clash of the Titans_ won the weekend with an actual $26.6 million (close to the Warner Bros. estimate) to _Date Night_‘s $25.2 million. Fox honchos had predicted that Tina and Steve would enjoy a $7.1 million Sunday date, which proved to be fully 30% higher than the $5.43 million the movie took in. _How to Train Your Dragon_‘s estimated $25.4 million was also a little high; the true total was $24.9 million. So _Clash_ gets to brag in this week’s commercials that it’s still the No. 1 movie in America — though because of its higher 3-D prices in many theaters the picture was probably seen by fewer people than _Date Night_.\] _Date Night_, directed by Shawn Levy of the _Night at the Museum_ franchise, performed slightly above industry expectations, whichever slot it finally occupies. It will finish well ahead of Fey’s 2008 star vehicle, _Baby Mama_, and if the estimates hold, it will have sold about the same amount of first-weekend tickets as Carell’s first hit, _The 40-Year-Old Virgin_. The movie benefited from one of those titles that virtually demands that a couple see it, as when _Valentine’s Day_ was released on Valentine’s Day weekend. And though _Date Night_ gleaned only a modest B rating from CinemaScore’s exit poll, it could get a Sunday bump from Fey’s stint over the weekend as guest host on _Saturday Night Live_ — the coolest form of cross-promotion, especially when _SNL_‘s musical guest was teen fave Justin Bieber. Now every girl from 8 to 14 knows about Fey’s movie too. _Clash_ dropped 56% from its opening weekend — not a disastrous plummet, considering that the movie got mixed-to-hostile reviews and a lowish B-minus CinemaScore rating, and that the geekosphere was vexed that _Clash_ was converted at the last minute from 2-D to fake 3-D. (Call it faux-D.) Costing $125 million to make (compared with _Date Night_‘s $55 million), the movie has already earned $110 million in North America and another $45 million abroad. Action movies almost always do better in foreign markets than comedies. _Baby Mama_, for example, took in $60.5 million at home and only $3.7 million in the rest of the world. [(See pictures of Steve Carell.)](https://www.time.com/time/photoessays/10questions/0,30255,1815863,00.html) The acid test of a movie’s popularity is its staying power. Tyler Perry’s _Why Did I Get Married Too?_ fell a precipitous 62.4% from its opening three days — the biggest second-weekend drop since _Valentine’s_ fell 70.4%. Perry’s fan base is avid but limited; nearly everyone who wants to see his films sees them the instant they hit the theaters. Other movies keep soaring on good word of mouth. _How to Train Your Dragon_ opened two weeks ago at $43.7 million, on the weak side for a DreamWorks 3-D animated feature. But it fell only 34% in its second weekend, and for its third time around, it dropped just 12.6%. In 17 days the movie has taken in more than a quarter-billion dollars worldwide. Also, as _Clash_ quickly fades, and with no new 3-D movie opening until _Shrek Forever After_ (also from DreamWorks) on May 21, _Dragon_ will retain those thousands of screens that charge higher ticket prices. And that’s something to roar about. From macro to micro: at the bottom of the top 10 is _Letters from God_, a Christian-themed inspirational drama about a kid with cancer and his Almighty pen pal. The movie earned $1,250,000 on 897 screens, way below last year’s Christian semi-hit _Fireproof_. But _Letters_ cost only $3 million to make, so it could turn a profit, if the faithful keep contributing to the multiplex collection plate. Here are the weekend’s top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo: 1\. _Date Night_, $27.1 million, first weekend 2\. _Clash of the Titans_, $26.9 million; $110.4 million, second week 3\. _How to Train Your Dragon_, $25.4 million; $133.9 million, third week 4\. _Why Did I Get Married Too?_, $11 million; $48.5 million, second week 5\. _The Last Song_, $10 million; $42.4 million, second week 6\. _Alice in Wonderland_, $5.6 million; $319.3 million, sixth week 7\. _Hot Tub Time Machine_, $5.4 million; $37 million, third week 8\. _The Bounty Hunter_, $4.3 million; $56 million, fourth week 9\. _Diary of a Wimpy Kid_, $4.1 million; $53.8 million, fourth week 10\. _Letters to God_, $1.1 million, first weekend [See the Cartoons of the Week.](https://www.time.com/time/cartoonsoftheweek/) [See the best pictures of 2009.](https://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1946595%5F2010901,00.html) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910788/box-office-weekend-tina-topples-or-ties-titans/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910788/box-office-weekend-tina-topples-or-ties-titans/"},"headline":"Box-Office Weekend: Tina Topples, or Ties, Titans","datePublished":"2010-04-11T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-22T16:13:35.954Z","description":"News Item A: The romantic comedy Date Night, starring Steve Carell of The Office and 30 Rock's Tina Fey as a married couple in peril,...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6910788/box-office-weekend-tina-topples-or-ties-titans/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte23169e8223649b6/698a4b64e6e84a8a0a2b1baa/360_date_night_0411.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/blte23169e8223649b6/698a4b64e6e84a8a0a2b1baa/360_date_night_0411.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"360_date_night_0411.jpg","caption":"Tina Fey, Steve Carell and Mark Wahlberg in a scene from Date Night","creditText":"Suzanne Tenner / 20th Century Fox / AP","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/6910788/box-office-weekend-tina-topples-or-ties-titans/","name":"Box-Office Weekend: Tina Topples, or Ties, Titans"}}]}] ```