--- title: Box Office Weakened: Greek and Killers Falter description: For Hollywood studios, and for the mass movie audience, May 2010 was the cruelest month. The big-gun sequels — Iron Man 2, Shrek Forever After,... canonical: https://time.com/archive/6910904/box-office-weakened-greek-and-killers-falter/ author: Richard Corliss article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2010-06-06T04:00:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-22T16:16:01.820Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Box Office Weakened: Greek and Killers Falter og:description: For Hollywood studios, and for the mass movie audience, May 2010 was the cruelest month. 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The big-gun sequels — _Iron Man 2_, _Shrek Forever After_, _Sex and the City 2_ — weren’t nearly as pleasing or popular as their originals. _Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time_, the Jerry Bruckheimer period-fantasy action-adventure, lacked the appeal of his previous franchise, _Pirates of the Caribbean_. _Robin Hood_, with Ridley Scott directing Russell Crowe in a burly adventure set in a distant time, came nowhere near the pair’s _Gladiator_. The whole month was pretty much a box office bust: down 11% in revenue and a distressing 19% in tickets sold, from May 2009. In the first week of June, Hollywood offered four new films, none of which met even the modest expectations of most industry prognosticators. _Killers_, the romantic spy comedy with Katherine Heigl and Ashton Kutcher, got offed. _Marmaduke_, meant to attract the fans of animal comic strips who made the movie _Garfield_ a hit, got sent back to the pound. The sci-fi horror film _Splice_ was sliced and diced by moviegoer apathy. And heading this feeble quartet was _Get Him to the Greek_ — the gross-out, guy-bonding, lost-in-Vegas comedy that isn’t _The Hangover_. [(See TIME’s review of _Killers_.)](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1994409,00.html) All four films cowered before the green, spindly legs of a familiar ogre. _Shrek Forever After_, in its third week, won the frame with a nondescript $25.3 million at North American theaters, according to early studio estimates. The total gross will be down at least 25% from the same weekend last year, when another CGI animated feature, Pixar’s _Up_, battled another R-rated comedy, _The Hangover_ (the bachelor-party boys narrowly won). The weekend stats get worse: none of the new films grossed as much as $20 million. To find any June weekend with numbers that low, you have to go back five years, when Crowe’s inspirational boxing movie _Cinderella Man_ earned $18.3 million. But that would be $20.7 million, factoring inflation; and _Cinderella Man_ faced three holdover hits (_Madagascar_, _The Longest Yard_ and the final episode of _Star Wars_) that earned nearly $80 million that weekend. This time, _Shrek_ was the only returning hit, and it earned less than a third of the 2005 winners’ tally. In other words, this weekend’s new films faced no significant competition, and they still tanked. [(See the top 10 worst chick flicks.)](https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1991708%5F1991710%5F1991682,00.html) The first weekend of June is supposed to be Apatow time — when American moviegoers are enthralled by a male-oriented comedy that is either produced by Judd Apatow or is deeply indebted to his knowingly raucous style. On this weekend last year, _The Hangover_ earned $45 million. In 2008, Apatow’s Adam Sandler farce _You Don’t Mess with the Zohan_ took in $38.5 million. The year before that, Apatow’s _Knocked Up_, with no stars but great early reviews, cadged a nifty $30 million. Hell, even the Jack Black comedy _Nacho Libre_ scored $28 million on this weekend in 2006\. So _Get Him to the Greek_, with two Apatow stars (_Superbad_‘s Jonah Hill and _Forgetting Sarah Marshall_‘s Russell Brand) enacting the usual journey of hostility and comradeship — should have matched or exceeded the numbers of its predecessors, instead of stumbling to a $17.4 million weekend. Why did moviegoers suddenly get so picky? The truth is that audiences didn’t flock to the successful movies because it was the weekend they were supposed to see a comedy. They went because they heard the pictures were good; they saw, approved and told their friends. (Word of mouth propelled _Knocked Up_ and _The Hangover_ to especially long lines and lives.) The corollary is that the word about mediocre films gets around much faster these days. Hostile Tweets and shrugging Facebook entries can make a movie a flop by late Friday night. And despite indulgent reviews from critics, real people thought _Greek_ was only so-so; exiting moviegoers polled by CinemaScore gave it a B rating — the same undistinguished score that _Killers_ got. [(See the 50 worst inventions of all time.)](https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1991915%5F1991909,00.html) As the top draw in _27 Dresses_ and _The Ugly Truth_, Katherine Heigl has come close to the traditional definition of a star: someone who will get people to pay to see her in bad movies. _Killers_, with a $16.1 million weekend, may break that streak. With a $75 million budget, it is the most expensive movie made to date by the indie company Lionsgate, which created the hint of a stink by refusing to screen the film in advance for critics. And somehow Kutcher wasn’t seen as the right eHarmony match for Heigl; though he’s a few months older than his co-star, he retains a puppy-dog winsomeness not suitable to the role of a longtime assassin. It would have made more sense if Kutcher had starred in the Marmaduke movie, or played him. Yet _Killers_ was _Avatar_ compared with _Splice_, shot on a $26 million budget 2½ years ago. Surprise: Oscar winner Adrian Brody and Oscar nominee Sarah Polley are not marquee stars! _Splice_ finished in eighth place this weekend, earning just $7.45 million, and pulled a D from CinemaScore — which on the moviegoers’ bell curve is about what Louisianans these days would give BP. Here are the Sunday estimates of the weekend’s top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo: 1\. _Shrek Forever After_, $25.3 million; $183 million, third week 2\. _Get Him to the Greek_, $17.4 million, first weekend 3\. _Killers_, $16.1 million, first weekend 4\. _Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time_, $13.9 million; $59.5 million, second week 5\. _Sex and the City 2_, $12.65 million; $73.4 million, second week 6\. _Marmaduke_, $11.3 million, first weekend 7\. _Iron Man 2_, $7.8 million; $291.3 million, fifth week 8\. _Splice_, $7.45 million, first weekend 9\. _Robin Hood_, $5.1 million; $94.3 million, fourth week 10\. _Letters to Juliet_, $3 million; $43.3 million, fourth week [See the 100 best movies of all time.](https://www.time.com/time/2005/100movies/) [See the Cartoons of the Week.](https://www.time.com/time/cartoonsoftheweek/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910904/box-office-weakened-greek-and-killers-falter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6910904/box-office-weakened-greek-and-killers-falter/"},"headline":"Box Office Weakened: Greek and Killers Falter","datePublished":"2010-06-06T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-22T16:16:01.820Z","description":"For Hollywood studios, and for the mass movie audience, May 2010 was the cruelest month. 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