Inglourious Basterds Review Box Office Taken Over By Basterds

Box Office Taken Over By Basterds.After the commercial and critical career nadir that was Grindhouse a couple of years ago, Quentin Tarantino has stormed back with Inglourious Basterds.

None of the top 10 releases suffered precipitous drops this weekend. Last weekend's champion District 9 fell around 50% – par for the course for a movie in its second weekend – and has amassed a tidy $73.5m as it strides towards the $100m mark.

So the biggest loser must probably be Summit Entertainment's comedy flop Bandslam, which opened poorly last weekend in 13th place and fell 60% towards the 20s and stands on a measly $4.5m.

Inglourious Basterds
2. Release: 2009
3. Country: USA
4. Cert (UK): 18
5. Runtime: 152 mins
6. Directors: Quentin Tarantino
7. Cast: Brad Pitt, Christian Berkel, Christoph Waltz, Cloris Leachman, Daniel Bruhl, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, Maggie Cheung, Melanie Laurent, Michael Fassbender, Mike Myers, Samuel L Jackson, Til Schweiger
8. More on this film

Inglorious Bastards begins with movies – the first chapter is called Sergio- “Once upon a time in Nazi-Occupied France” – and ends with the movies. Tarantino believes that cinema can correct the wrongs of this world.

Box Office Hits

1. Inglourious Basterds, $37.6m.
2. District 9, $18.9m. Total: $73.5m
3. GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra, $12.5m Total: $120.5m
4. The Time Traveler's Wife, $10m. Total: $37.4m
5. Julie & Julia, $9m. Total: $59.3m
6. Shorts $6.6m
7. G-Force, $4.2m. Total: $107.3m
8. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, $3.5m. Total $290.3m
9. The Ugly Truth, $2.9m. Total: $82.9m
10. Post Grad $2.8m

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