Sandra Bullock’s return to romantic comedy, The Proposal opened at #1 this weekend, grossing a way higher than expected $33.6M. The debut was much bigger than industry expectations for the movie and way higher than my $26M forecast, which I actually thought was too high. The Proposal set a new record for Bullock, destroying her previous best opening weekend of $17.6M for 2007’s Premonition. This also marks the first time Bullock has landed in the top spot since 1999’s Forces of Nature, co-starring Ben Affleck. With no competition from any other romantic comedies ahead in the next few weeks, The Proposal should have a long walk down the aisle and reach $100M+ by the end of its run.

This weekend’s other new comedy release, Year One, starring Jack Black and Michael Cera as cavemen, opened in 4^th place with a respectable $19.6M bow right in line with my $20M prediction. Reviews haven’t been great and more than likely its target audience of young males have already shown up, so the weeks ahead will be tough on Year One. I would expect a big drop next weekend as its target audience is drawn to Transformers 2 and for Year One to wander its way to $50M by the end of its journey.

Among holdovers, The Hangover gave up the #1 spot after 2 weekends on top, but continued to rake it in. The bachelor party gone wrong comedy slipped a miniscule 18% to gross another $26.7M, close to my $24.6M call, bringing its total to a staggering $152.8M after only 3 weeks in theatres. At its current pace The Hangover is on track to gross at least $225M. The Taking of Pelham 123 dropped a reasonable 49% in its 2^nd weekend, stealing another $12M in box office gold, right on with my $12.4M projection. Eddie Murphy’s latest box office failure, Imagine That, had a way smaller decline in its 2^nd frame than his previous bombs (Meet Dave -68% and The Adventures of Pluto Nash -71%), easing down a sound 40% to conjure up another $3.3M at the box office. Imagine That fared way better than I thought; I expected a 52% drop. To see how the rest of my predictions fared, check out the chart below.