In a year when box office analysts have cast doubt on star power (and comrades like Julia Roberts have gone down in flames), one wouldn't necessarily expect Sandra Bullock to bust out her biggest opening ever, but with The Proposal, she did. In fact, she practically beat her prior weekend record ($17.6 million for Premonition, a film we all forgot existed) on Friday alone. Meanwhile, Year One came in at the high end of expectations; with an $8.5 million Friday, at least it's assured of opening better than Land of the Lost, our current flop comedy watermark.
THE PROPOSAL: $12,400,000 (new)
YEAR ONE: $8,500,000 (new)
THE HANGOVER: $8,465,000 ($134,529,000)
UP: $6,100,000 ($208,876,000)
THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1 2 3: $3,200,000 ($35,232,000)
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: BATTLE OF THE SMITHSONIAN: $2,150,000 ($150,803,000)
STAR TREK: $1,250,000 ($235,994,000)
LAND OF THE LOST: $1,237,000 ($40,934,000)
IMAGINE THAT: $990,000 ($9,241,000)
TERMINATOR SALVATION: $840,000 ($117,283,000)