Two months to go before the year comes to an end. November seems to have started off in a very successful manner indeed. The weekend has seen three movies earn more than $20 million at the US box-office. And as expected, it was the animation flick, Megamind, to top the list with $48 million. Dreamworks has already enjoyed a successful year with its previous two ventures in the animated world, How To Train Your Dragon and Shrek Forever After, earning grand returns. And Megamind seems to be adding itself to the same list. While the first weekend figures for Megamind are marginally better than How To Train Your Dragon, the latter had some strong word-of-mouth that had led to low declines in the subsequent weeks, a phenomenon that Megamind may not witness, especially considering that the latest Harry Potter flick is on its way. Despite the same, $100 million would be achieved quite easily, though the movie may just fall shy of the $200 million mark.
The second spot was taken by the comedy movie, Due Date, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis. The movie earned a strong $35 million during the weekend at the US box-office and would be aiming to hit the $100 million mark soon. With a career that had not seen a single $100 million movie before, Robert Downey Jr. has seen things change dramatically in the last three years. Since 2008, he has already had four movies crossing that mark (Iron Man, Tropic Thunder, Sherlock Holmes and Iron Man 2), won critical acclaim for his varied roles and earned an Oscar nomination too. Talk of revivals! The final movie to garner $20 million at the US box-office during the weekend was For Colored Girls, directed by Tyler Perry, which has a long list of women starring in the film including Thandie Newton and Whoopie Goldberg. November has got off to a grand start but this is just the beginning. Come November 19, and it would be time for the green bucks to flood the cinema halls again!
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