Traditionally, Memorial Day weekend is one of the biggest box office weekends of the year and there are two major releases contending for your dollars.  Sex and the City 2 which is actually opening today and Disney hopes to launch a new franchise with Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. There are also some holdovers that should still perform well this weekend; look for Shrek Forever After to have a good hold over the 4 day frame and Iron Man 2 and Robin Hood should round out the top 5. Take a look. 

It’s a good thing that Shrek Forever After is the last film in the series because it didn’t even come close to matching the opening of its predecessors signaling that audiences are tired of the character. Shrek 4 will still attain box office heights that will make most other films green with envy, but for the series it will be viewed as a box office disappointment. The only other wide release of the weekend, MacGruber inspired by the SNL skit of the same name, proved to be yet another box office dud for the venerable sketch show. Take a look. 

This weekend two new releases hit multiplexes; the fourth and final (?) chapter of the most successful animated franchise of all time, Shrek Forever After and Will Forte stars in MacGruber based on the SNL sketch. Shrek will clearly have an ogre-sized opening weekend, but how big is big? Will Shrek 4 be able to live up to the gigantic opening weekends of parts 2 and 3? Take a look.

Tony Stark fended off Robin Hood as Iron Man 2 remained the #1 movie at the box office this weekend. The Armored Avenger has spent the first two weeks of the summer movie season on top but will be smacked down by big, green ogre, Shrek next weekend. Robin Hood opened in second place and is off to a decent if not solid start. Letters to Juliet and Just Wright both did moderately well, coming in at third and fourth respectively. 

After a tremendous start to the summer season with Iron Man 2, things slow down considerably this weekend with three new releases that don’t really have much in the way of box office potential. Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe team up once again to bring us yet another version of Robin Hood. Amanda Seyfried and Vanessa Redgrave take a road trip through Italy in Letters to Juliet and Queen Latifah falls in love with Common in sports themed romantic comedy, Just Wright. Will Robin Hood be able to take on Iron Man? It’s not very likely. I’m fairly sure that Tny Stark's armor is arrow-proof.

Iron Man 2 started off the summer movie season with a bang generating the fifth biggest opening weekend of all time. It was an impressive debut for the armored avenger, although not even close to as big as I thought it would’ve been. I thought Tony Stark and company were going to be able to steal away the record for best opening weekend from The Dark Knight ($158.4M) but it looks like the caped crusader will keep the record for another year. 

This weekend at the box office, Iron Man 2 blasts into theatres officially kicking off the summer movie season. The sequel to 2008’s monster hit is perhaps the most highly anticipated film of the summer and will more than likely be the biggest hit of the year. The big question is whether the film can top the opening weekend record set by The Dark Knight in the summer of 2008. Take a look.

It looks like another slow weekend at the box office. Two new films open; horror remake, A Nightmare on Elm Street and family comedy Furry Vengeance starring Brendan Fraser. Elm Street will lead the pack with relative ease and will be the only film in the top 10 to collect more than $15M. Although this is a slow weekend (with the exception of Freddy Krueger), the box office will pick up tremendously next weekend when Iron Man 2 blasts its way into theatres, officially kicking off the summer movie season. 

It was a slow weekend at the box office with How to Train Your Dragon topping the charts in its fifth frame with a mere $15.3M. Jennifer Lopez needs a back-up plan for her career after the weak performance of her new romantic comedy The Back-up Plan and The Losers turned out to be just that at the box office. Meanwhile Disney Nature’s Oceans had a solid debut, posting the best per screen average in the top 10. Take a look. 

It’s kind of a tame weekend at the box office with three new releases that don’t really have any break out potential. They are The Back-up Plan starring Jennifer Lopez; The Losers based on the DC/Vertigo comic book series and Disney Nature’s second documentary feature Oceans. With these films set to underperform, How to Train Your Dragon should soar to first place which is a rare occurrence for a film in its fifth weekend of release. Take a look.