Business is like that. Every year, production companies spend millions of dollars making a movie that is supposed to be a total success to amortize costs and make money. What Terminator 4 y Land of the Lost of Will Ferrel, the first has cost 200 million and the second about 100 and they have only raised 113 and 34 in the USA so their failure is considerable, and from time to time the billboard surprises with an unexpected success like that of The Hangover, translated into Spanish "La hanaca", which has been No. 1 at the US box office for two weeks and has already accumulated 105 million dollars when it only cost 35 million, so the benefits will be substantial. So much so, that this weekend an agreement has been concluded with the director, main actors and scriptwriters to shoot a sequel.
Anyway, we continue with the list of the highest grossing films of the last weekend in the USA. The second place is for the Pixar film UP which will be another of the successes of the year. Three weeks in theaters and it already accumulates a whopping 187 million dollars in collection so that as it continues like this it can exceed Star Trek, which is in the 7th position with 232 million already accumulated, as the highest grossing film of the year in the USA. And that many said that a movie starring an old man would not succeed at the box office.
Of the premieres, comment on the weak entry in third position of The taking of Pelham 1 2 3 that only raises 25 million dollars and that it has in its cast Denzel Washington and John Travolta and we are talking about a production of 100 million dollars.