--- title: Box Office: Megamind Derails Unstoppable description: That capricious smarty-pants with the big blue head can keep on cackling. In its second time around, DreamWorks' 3D animated feature Megamind again dominated the... canonical: https://time.com/archive/6911217/box-office-megamind-derails-unstoppable/ author: Richard Corliss article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2010-11-14T05:00:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-22T16:22:33.957Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Box Office: Megamind Derails Unstoppable og:description: That capricious smarty-pants with the big blue head can keep on cackling. 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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/) Nov 14, 2010 5:00 AM UTC  A scene from Megamind, which stars Will Ferrell, Tina Fey and Brad Pitt A scene from Megamind, which stars Will Ferrell, Tina Fey and Brad Pitt by [Richard Corliss](https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/) Nov 14, 2010 5:00 AM UTC That capricious smarty-pants with the big blue head can keep on cackling. In its second time around, DreamWorks’ 3D animated feature _Megamind_ again dominated the North American box office, according to early studio estimates. Its $30.1 million, down just 34% from last weekend’s opening, was more than enough to vanquish [Denzel Washington and his runaway train](https://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2030907,00.html). _Unstoppable_, amped up from a real event in Ohio in 2001, ran like _Speed_ with a diesel engine and pulled a comely 69 rating of Metacritic’s survey of movie reviewers. It was in the top spot Friday, but fell to _Megamind_‘s Saturday onslaught of kids and their indulgent parents. The other newbies, _Skyline_ and _Morning Glory_ finished far behind. [(See TIME’s review of _Megamind_.)](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2029658,00.html) The opening of Washington’s fifth collaboration with director Tony Scott was in line with the early grosses of the previous four — _Crimson Tide, Man on Fire, Deja Vu_ and _The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3_ — though less than the first-weekend take of either _American Gangster_ (directed by Tony’s brother Ridley) or this January’s _The Book of Eli_. Anyway, the man is a star with a long, strong light. Of the 14 Denzel-starring films of the past decade, all but two earned more than $20 million the first weekend. One of those two, _The Great Debaters_, opened in limited release; the $16.2 million earned in its first three days by the other, the 2003 _Out of Time_, would be $21.3 million today. That’s an impressive record for a 55-year-old, showing more consistent muscle than any actor who came of age in the 1980s except for Tom Cruise. [(See the top 10 train movies.)](https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,2030860,00.html) _Morning Glory_ was supposed to be a star-making vehicle for Rachel McAdams, who had played the female leads in the popular weepies _The Notebook_ and _The Time Traveler’s Wife_ and was aiming to join Katherine Heigl, Kate Hudson, Reese Witherspoon and the newly anointed Emma Stone as a rom-com goddess. Didn’t happen, at least for now. _Morning Glory_, shot in the spring and summer of 2009 for $40 million, attracted only $9.6 million worth of customers this weekend, $12.2 million since its Tuesday-midnight opening. [(See TIME’s review of _Morning Glory_)](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2030718,00.html) The science-fiction disaster movie _Skyline_ earned nearly as much in three days, and it was made for a thrifty $10 million — by Greg and Colin Strause, the special-effects wizards who also directed the 2007 horror-reunion sequel _Aliens vs Predators: Requiem_. In Hollywood, success is determined not only by what your film makes but by what it cost to make. By that standard, _Morning Glory_ is a flop, _Skyline_ a kind of hit. In the nanoworld of indie films, _127 Hours_, expanding from four to 22 theaters in its second week, held strong with a heroic $453,000, parlaying the pedigree of its true-life loner-hero story, its Oscar-winning director (_Slumdog Millionaire_‘s Danny Boyle) and the news that folks keep fainting during the big surgery scene. Its $20,591 per-screen average was topped only by the $22,450 earned in one Manhattan theater by _Tiny Furniture_, a homecoming comedy for which 24-year-old writer-director-star Lena Dunham cast her mother (artist Laurie Simmons), sister and friends as, more or less, themselves. Dunham, whose web series _Tight Spots_ runs on Nerve.com, made her first feature for just $50,000 — further proof, after the success of last year’s microbudgeted _Paranormal Activity_, that the movieplex has room for all things great and tiny. Here are the Sunday estimates of this weekend,s top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo: 1\. _Megamind_, $30.1 million; $89.8 million, second week 2\. _Unstoppable_, $23.5 million, first weekend 3\. _Due Date_, $15.5 million; $59 million, second week 4\. _Skyline_, $11.7 million, first weekend 5\. _Morning Glory_, $9.6 million, first weekend; $12.2 million, first five days 6\. _For Colored Girls_, $6.75 million; $30.9 million, second week 7\. _Red_, $5.1 million; $79.8 million, fifth week 8\. _Paranormal Activity 2_, $3.05 million; $82 million, fourth week 9\. _Saw 3D_, $2.75 million; $43.5 million, third week 10\. _Jackass 3D_, $2.3 million; $114.7 million, fifth week ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6911217/box-office-megamind-derails-unstoppable/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6911217/box-office-megamind-derails-unstoppable/"},"headline":"Box Office: Megamind Derails Unstoppable","datePublished":"2010-11-14T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-22T16:22:33.957Z","description":"That capricious smarty-pants with the big blue head can keep on cackling. 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