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Top 10 Genre Movies: Monsters vs. Aliens falls to No. 2

By David Speakman • April 5, 2009

After spending last week on at the top spot, animated science fantasy flick, Monsters vs. Aliens fell to the No. 2 spot behind the fourth installment fo the Fast and the Furious franchise.

The only sci fi flick to debut this weekend was Alien Trespass, the 50's-era sci-fi comedy spook starring Eric McCormick, which debuted at No. 29 on the genre movie list and No. 29 overall with just over $10 million.

Genre films set to debut next week: Dragonball Evolution is set for wide release.

Following are the Top 10 speculative fiction movies in release in North America for the weekend of April 3-5, 2009.

RANK #. (Overall Rank) Title - Weekend Gross | Total Gross [Budget]

  1. (2) Monsters vs. Aliens - $33.5 million | 105.7 million [$175 million]
  2. (3) The Haunting in Connecticut - $9.55 million | 37.2 million [N/A]
  3. (4) Knowing - $8.1  million | $58.3 million [N/A]
  4. (6) Race to Witch Mountain- $3.4 million | $58.4 million [N/A]
  5. (13) Watchmen - $1.1 million | $105.4 million [$150 million]
  6. (19) Coraline - $0.2 million | $74.3 million [N/A]
  7. (22) Push - $0.14 million | $31.3 million [$38 million]
  8. (23) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - $0.13 million | $127.2 million [$150 million]
  9. (29) Alien Trespass - $0.04 million | $0.04 million [N/A]
  10. (33) Fanboys - $0.02 million | $0.6 million [N/A]

Source: Box Office Mojo - list only includes science fiction, spy fi, fantasy and dark fantasy/horror titles.

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David Speakman

David Speakman - known in fannish circles as Davodd - is recovering from almost 20 years as a professional writer and journalist in mainstream print and broadcasting. He recently "retired" from journalism, citing that too many mega-mergers caused news focus to shift from serving the public interest to serving up eyeballs to advertisers. Currently he works full time as a paralegal while attending night law school. A member of N3F on and off since 1984, David's fannish activities in recent days have been curtailed due to time and budget constraints of being a law school student; although he does manage to squeeze in episodes of Battlestar Galactica, issues of Weird Tales magazine and an odd superhero movie "now and then."

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One Response to “ Top 10 Genre Movies: Monsters vs. Aliens falls to No. 2 ”

  1. Vince Apr 6th, 2009 at 11:55 pm

    Hey David, this is a really great top ten list, I expect to see Watchmen break the $200 million mark worldwide, it is awesome.

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