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Ridley Scott’s _Robin Hood_, starring Russell Crowe as the sainted outlaw of Sherwood Forest, finished a distant second to _Iron Man 2_ at the North American box office this weekend, according to early studio estimates. Somehow, the promise of Crowe and Cate Blanchett as Maid Marian slogging through 12th century muck did not entice ticket buyers as much as a second look at the second film with Robert Downey Jr. as the zillionaire with the gold-titanium alloy heart. _Iron Man 2_ fell 60% from its $128 million opening last weekend but still vanquished _Robin Hood_, $53 million to $37.1 million. [(See pictures of Robin Hood through the ages.)](https://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1989264,00.html) Worldwide, the medieval action film did fine. Cadging loads of free publicity as the opening-night selection of the Cannes Film Festival, _Robin Hood_ earned $74 million on about 7,000 screens in 56 countries and territories — the biggest international opening take for a Scott-Crowe collaboration (including _Gladiator_ and _American Gangster_). But the film will have to steal a lot more swag to break even; according to some reports, it cost a pricey $225 million to produce, plus another $100 million or so to bring it to market. The demographics of its U.S. audience are not encouraging: 56% of those who saw the movie were male, but 63% were over 30 — graybeards in movie-audience terms. And _Robin_‘s B-minus CinemaScore poll of exiting moviegoers indicates tough times ahead for the film and its producing studio Universal, already [mired in a yearlong slump](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1971941,00.html). That $37.1 million opening — on the first weekend of the summer movie season without a Mother’s Day to deflate the Sunday numbers — is not just well below _Iron Man 2_‘s sophomore frame but also far behind the weekend takes of early-2010 hits: _Alice in Wonderland_ ($116.1 million, first weekend; $62.7 million, second weekend), _Clash of the Titans_ ($61.2 million), _Valentine’s Day_ ($56.3 million), _How to Train Your Dragon_ ($43.7 million) and _Shutter Island_ ($41 million). It’s also less than what _Avatar_ racked up in five of its seven weeks at No. 1\. [(See TIME’s 10 Questions with Jon Favreau, _Iron Man 2_ director.)](https://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1987593,00.html) _Letters to Juliet_, the Amanda Seyfried weepie offered as counterprogramming for the femme set, opened on the low end of expectations at $13.8 million; it cost about $30 million to make. _Juliet_‘s audience was a lopsided 81% female, with 63% over 25\. Its A-minus CinemaScore rating suggests that other women will find the movie in the next few weeks. Queen Latifah’s NBA story _Just Wright_ opened with a meager $8.5 million. This one won’t make the playoffs. And if this week’s movies are already cowering, it’s because they’ve heard the heavy footfalls of _Shrek Forever After_. The DreamWorks 3-D animated feature opens on May 21. 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_, $53 million; $212.2 million, second week 2\. _Robin Hood_, $37.1 million, first weekend 3\. _Letters to Juliet_, $13.8 million, first weekend 4\. _Just Wright_, $8.5 million, first weekend 5\. _A Nightmare on Elm Street_, $4.7 million; $56.1 million, third week 6\. _How to Train Your Dragon_, $5.1 million; $207.8 million, eighth week 7\. _Date Night_, $4 million; $86.7 million, sixth week 8\. _The Back-Up Plan_, $2.5 million; $34.2 million, fourth week 9\. _Furry Vengeance_, $2.3 million; $15.1 million, second week 10\. _Clash of the Titans_, $1.3 million; $160.2 million, seventh week [See the world’s most influential people in the 2010 TIME 100.](https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,1984685,00.html) [See TIME’s Pictures of the Week.](https://www.time.com/time/picturesoftheweek) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910861/box-office-iron-man-outmuscles-robin-hood/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910861/box-office-iron-man-outmuscles-robin-hood/"},"headline":"Box Office: Iron Man Outmuscles Robin Hood","datePublished":"2010-05-16T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-22T16:15:05.954Z","description":"It was laser weapons vs. bows and arrows in the battle of movie macho men, and reigning champ Tony Stark's superior weaponry was too much...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6910861/box-office-iron-man-outmuscles-robin-hood/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf9e0050ac2e49e47/698a4b6f457a522ad3d6925b/360_iron_man2_0512.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/bltf9e0050ac2e49e47/698a4b6f457a522ad3d6925b/360_iron_man2_0512.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"360_iron_man2_0512.jpg","caption":"A scene from Iron Man 2","creditText":"Industrial Light & Magic / Marvel","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/6910861/box-office-iron-man-outmuscles-robin-hood/","name":"Box Office: Iron Man Outmuscles Robin Hood"}}]}] ```