Deadline Hollywood reports that despite a dominant Friday box office performance, “Iron Man 2” will not be topping the weekend record, currently held by “The Dark Knight.”<\/p>\n
“Iron Man” earned an estimated $52 million at the Friday box office, which still keeps it on track for the predicted $125-$135 million opening. But any hope of the film outperforming those lofty opening weekend projections appears to be out the window.<\/p>\n
If the Deadline figures and forecast hold up, “Iron Man 2” will rank seventh on the all-time list for opening days (the record belongs to “The Twilight Saga: New Moon,” which earned $72.7 million), fifth on the all-time list for Fridays (the record also belongs to “New Moon”) and fifth on the all-time list for opening weekends (behind “The Dark Knight,” “Spider-Man 3,” “New Moon” and “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest”).<\/p>\n
“Nightmare on Elm Street” represented “Iron Man 2″‘s nearest competitor, with an estimated $3.2 million in Friday receipts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n