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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/) May 9, 2010 4:00 AM UTC  Robert Downey Jr. in Iron Man 2 Robert Downey Jr. in Iron Man 2 Francois Duhamel / Paramount by [Richard Corliss](https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/) May 9, 2010 4:00 AM UTC Tony Stark rules. _Iron Man 2_, continuing the adventures of the zillionaire industrialist-scientist who makes himself a new heart and a nifty suit to encase it in, jump-started the summer blockbuster season with a Mother’s Day weekend take of $133.6 million, according to early studio estimates. Eschewing the filigree, and thus the higher ticket prices, of three dimensions, _Iron Man 2-D_ still had the fifth highest opening in North American movie history, after _The Dark Knight_, _Spider-Man 3_, _Twilight Saga: New Moon_ and _Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest_ — all of which were released in the old-fashioned flat format. If you wonder, with a sigh, why Hollywood is awash in retreads, just consider the math. Of the top 25 opening weekends, sequels fill all but five slots: _Alice in Wonderland_, the first _Spider-Man_, _Iron Man_, the _Harry Potter_ films and _The Passion of the Christ_. These five exceptions all had brand recognition from the get-go, being based on a famous children’s book, a comic book or a Good Book. And we wouldn’t be surprised if some studio mogul hadn’t begged Mel Gibson to make _The Resurrection of the Christ_. [(See pictures of how superheroes fly.)](https://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1987554,00.html) The Marvel smarty-hero has already earned nearly $200 million abroad; Paramount opened the film a week early in the rest of the world (excluding Japan) to avoid competition with the World Cup, which will dominate fans’ interest for a month beginning June 11\. “Many countries come to a standstill during the World Cup games, especially if the home team is playing,” Veronika Kwan-Rubinek, Warner Bros. international distribution president, told the _Hollywood Reporter_. “In the football-crazy countries, theater admissions are down dramatically on the days of the games, and event movies that need a male audience suffer.” Stay tuned to see how the World Cup will affect the worldwide grosses of blockbuster wannabes like _Shrek Forever After_ and _Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time_. [(See why 2010 is the year of the remake.)](https://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1977221,00.html) Compared with _Iron Man 2_‘s magnetic gross, all other box-office returns were puny; the other films in the top 10 earned less than $40 million. But _How to Train Your Dragon_ and _Date Night_ held on to their respective audiences, with the DreamWorks cartoon passing the $200 million domestic mark and the Tina Fey–Steve Carell rom-com-disaster movie topping $80 million. Among 2010 releases, _Dragon_ is the third biggest hit worldwide, having earned more than $400 million globally. It follows _Alice in Wonderland_ at $960 million and _Clash of the Titans_ at $432 million. _Iron Man 2_ will pass _Dragon_ and _Clash_ within a week or so; it’s aiming for a billion worldwide. Now, what to get Mom for Mother’s Day? “Buy her candy or some flowers or a brand-new hat,” Tom Lehrer suggested in his jaunty old song “Oedipus Rex.” Or, two distributors hoped, take her to a nice new indie film with maternal inclinations. The docu-dorable _Babies_, which traces the lives of four infants around the world, opened in 535 theaters and earned $1.6 million to snag 10th place for the weekend. The other debut, _Mother and Child_, Rodrigo Garcia’s soft-focus triptych starring Annette Bening, Naomi Watts and Kerry Washington, earned $44,488 on four screens. Elsewhere in the Lilliput of indie movies, where successful grosses are measured in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, not the hundred millions, the faux-doc _Exit Through the Gift Shop_ ascended to a total of $934,415 in its fourth week, according to IndieWire’s Peter Knegt; and the Michael Caine drama _Harry Brown_ inched up to $381,070 in its second week. The Iron Man of indies remains _The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo_, now nearing $5 million in domestic ticket sales (and a sensational $88 million abroad, mostly in Europe). But the big news in specialized movies was the spiffy restoration of Fritz Lang’s 1927 _Metropolis_, which earned an astounding $20,000 this weekend at Manhattan’s Film Forum rep house. The silent-film parable, about a titan of industry and a mad-genius scientist who creates a robot human, could be the blueprint for _Iron Man_ and a thousand other science-fiction epics. Eighty-three years after its premiere, _Metropolis_ is still connecting with audiences. We wonder if _Iron Man 2_ will do the same in the year 2093. Here are the Sunday estimates of the weekend’s top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo: 1\. _Iron Man 2_, $133.6 million, first weekend 2\. _A Nightmare on Elm Street_, $9.2 million; $48.5 million, second week 3\. _How to Train Your Dragon_, $6.8 million; $201.1 million, seventh week 4\. _Date Night_, $5.3 million; $80.9 million, fifth week 5\. _The Back-Up Plan_, $4.3 million; $29.4 million, third week 6\. _Furry Vengeance_, $4 million; $11.6 million, second week 7\. _Clash of the Titans_, $2.3 million; $157.8 million, sixth week 8\. _Death at a Funeral_, $2.1 million; $38.3 million, fourth week 9\. _The Losers_, $1.8 million; $21.45 million, third week 10\. _Babies_, $1.6 million, first week ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910840/box-office-weekend-iron-man-2-goes-gold/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910840/box-office-weekend-iron-man-2-goes-gold/"},"headline":"Box Office Weekend: Iron Man 2 Goes Gold","datePublished":"2010-05-09T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-22T16:14:36.152Z","description":"Tony Stark rules. 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