In North America, a four-year box office record fell on the Memorial Day weekend. According to the resource Deadline, the cumulative earnings of the movies for the four-day vacation exceeded $ 275 million. In 2007, the record was $ 254 million. The comedy Bachelor Party 2: From Vegas to Bangkok, which earned an astronomical amount of $ 137.3 million since the start, became the locomotive of the American box office. The movie raised another 59 million dollars outside the United States. There was also a change in the leader in the list of the highest-grossing projects of the year. First-place winner " Fast and Furious 5 " dropped to second place, giving way to Pirates of the Caribbean 4. The movie's cumulative earnings have already surpassed $ 640 million. The majority of that amount is Pirates 4. collected at the international box office. In the US, the picture so far boasts only $ 163 million. The Topic of Article: New box office record set in USA. |