Top 10 Weekend Box Office Movies

1. Iron Man - $50.5M -- Mon, 12 May 2008 07:06:01 GMT

Tony Stark is a billionaire industrialist and genius inventor who is kidnapped and forced to build a devastating weapon. Instead, using his intelligence and ingenuity, Tony builds a high-tech suit of armor and escapes captivity. When he uncovers a nefarious plot with global implications, he dons his powerful armor and vows to protect the world as Iron Man.

2. Speed Racer - $20.2M -- Mon, 12 May 2008 07:06:01 GMT

Born to race cars, Speed Racer is aggressive, instinctive and, most of all, fearless. His only real competition is the memory of the brother he idolized - the legendary Rex Racer, whose death in a race has left behind a legacy that Speed is driven to fulfill. Speed is loyal to the family racing business, led by his father, Pops Racer, the designer of Speed\'s thundering Mach 5. When Speed turns down a lucrative and tempting offer from Royalton Industries, he not only infuriates the company\'s maniacal owner but uncovers a terrible secret - some of the biggest races are being fixed by a handful of ruthless moguls who manipulate the top drivers to boost profits. If Speed won\'t drive for Royalton, Royalton will see to it that the Mach 5 never crosses another finish line. The only way for Speed to save his family\'s business and the sport he loves is to beat Royalton at his own game. With the support of his family and his loyal girlfriend, Trixie, Speed teams with his one-time rival - the mysterious Racer X - to win the race that had taken his brother\'s life: the death-defying, cross-country rally known as The Crucible.

3. What Happens in Vegas - $20.0M -- Mon, 12 May 2008 07:06:01 GMT

Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher star as strangers who unwittingly end up as bride and groom in this comedy. When one of them strikes it rich after playing the other person\'s coin, the stakes are suddenly much higher. But all\'s fair in love and war--and Las Vegas--as each of them tries to get the money.

4. Made of Honor - $7.6M -- Mon, 12 May 2008 07:06:01 GMT

Patrick Dempsey (GREY\'S ANATOMY) proves his charm extends beyond the role of McDreamy with this romantic comedy. A bride-to-be (Michelle Monaghan, THE HEARTBREAK KID) asks her best friend to be her maid of honor, but this film has a twist (or two): her best friend is a man (Dempsey), and he\'s secretly in love with her.

5. Baby Mama - $5.8M -- Mon, 12 May 2008 07:06:01 GMT

Most romantic couples--onscreen or otherwise--would kill for the type of chemistry that Tina Fey and Amy Poehler share in the gyno-centric comedy BABY MAMA, even though the women are only playing friends. Fey stars as Kate, a 37-year-old vice president at an organic foods company whose womb starts a-kickin\' every time she sees a baby. Though her career has kept her from marriage and children, she has decided that it\'s time for her to get pregnant. But multiple tries with in vitro fertilization leave her disappointed, and Kate turns to a surrogate mother. Enter Angie (Poehler), a high-school dropout desperate for the large check that comes with carrying someone\'s child. Though she agrees to be Kate\'s surrogate, it\'s clear that the women disagree on everything from music to the type of food Angie should be eating. When Angie leaves her apartment after a fight with her obnoxious common-law husband (Dax Shepard, EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH), she moves into Kate\'s posh Philadelphia apartment, and the women spend the rest of BABY MAMA alternately battling and bonding.<br><br>Steve Martin appears in a small but enjoyable role as Kate\'s oily boss, and Oscar nominee Greg Kinnear gets good mileage out of playing her love interest. WEEDS star Romany Malco earns a bit more screen time--and plenty of laughs--as her over-involved doorman, but this is clearly Fey and Poehler\'s film. After several seasons of co-anchoring SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE\'s "Weekend Update" together, the pair is reunited, and it feels good--for both the talented actresses and the audience. BABY MAMA pays less attention to the serious issues of pregnancy and motherhood than its baby-driven contemporaries--JUNO, WAITRESS, and KNOCKED UP--but this is simply a comedy, and a very funny one, that succeeds on the merits of its two lead actresses and their comedic talents.

6. Forgetting Sarah Marshall - $3.8M -- Mon, 12 May 2008 07:06:01 GMT

Nicholas Stoller\'s FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL is a romantic disaster comedy produced by the same team that made such hits as THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN and KNOCKED UP, headed by writer, director, and producer Judd Apatow. When he gets suddenly and unceremoniously dumped by his longtime girlfriend, television star Sarah Marshall (VERONICA MARS lead Kristen Bell), composer Peter Bretter (FREAKS AND GEEKS alum Jason Segel) is devastated. Miserably depressed, he seeks solace in tawdry one-night stands, but he is desperate to win Sarah back. On the advice of his stepbrother, Brian (SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE\'s Bill Hader), Peter heads off to Hawaii for a much-needed vacation, but he gets even more freaked out when he discovers that Sarah and her new beau, wild and wacky British singing sensation Aldous Snow (comedian Russell Brand), are staying there as well. Mired in sadness, Peter is befriended by hotel employee Rachel Jansen (THAT \'70S SHOW\'s Mila Kunis), who encourages him to get back his life and pursue his own dreams, which include staging a Dracula musical with puppets. But Peter is blinded by his desire for Sarah even as he grows closer to Rachel and starts hanging out with some of the hotel\'s odder personalities, including Chuck (Paul Rudd), a drug-addled surf instructor, and Matthew (SUPERBAD\'s Jonah Hill), a drug-dealing restaurant worker obsessed with Snow. Segel, who gets fully naked several times in the film, wrote the screenplay, a sharp blend of comedy and drama, and is solid in his first major starring role. Stoller, making his feature-film directorial debut, gets the most out of his diverse cast and beautiful setting, especially Jack McBrayer and Maria Thayer as a newlywed couple having some bizarre sexual problems, and Billy Baldwin as Sarah\'s costar in the television show CRIME SCENE: SCENE OF THE CRIME. FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL is an outrageously funny yet touchingly sweet movie.

7. Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay - $3.2M -- Mon, 12 May 2008 07:06:01 GMT

Perpetually stoned pals Harold and Kumar (John Cho and Kal Penn) are back in this sequel to the 2004 cult favorite HAROLD & KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE. While on route to Amsterdam, the pair is mistaken for terrorists, leading to a series of misadventures that include another run-in with Neil Patrick Harris.

8. The Forbidden Kingdom - $1.9M -- Mon, 12 May 2008 07:06:01 GMT

While hunting down bootleg kung-fu DVDs in a Chinatown pawnshop, Jason makes an extraordinary discovery that sends him hurtling back in time to ancient China. There, Jason is charged with a monumental task: he must free the fabled warrior the Monkey King, who has been imprisoned by the evil Jade Warlord. Jason is joined in his quest by wise kung fu master Lu Yan and a band of misfit warriors including Silent Monk. But only by learning the true precepts of kung fu can Jason hope to succeed - and find a way to get back home.

9. Nim's Island - $1.3M -- Mon, 12 May 2008 07:06:01 GMT

Based on the popular children\'s novel of the same name by Wendy Orr, NIM\'S ISLAND follows the adventures of Nim Rusoe (LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE\'s Abigail Breslin), a spirited young girl who lives on a remote island with her scientist dad, Jack (300\'s Gerard Butler), and a host of animal companions, including an iguana, a sea lion, and a sea turtle. Nim\'s idyllic life gets shaken up, however, when her father goes missing while on an ocean outing. Seeking help to find Jack, Nim contacts her favorite literary hero, explorer Alex Rover (also played by Butler), who, in reality, is uptight--and distinctly unadventurous--author Alexa Rover (Jodie Foster). Against her better judgment, Alexa journeys to Nim\'s faraway home, setting a series of thrilling and funny moments in motion.<br><br>Directed and written (in part) by the husband/wife team of Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett, NIM\'S ISLAND revels in its fanciful premise, never getting hung up on its unrealistic plot points. (E-mail on an extremely secluded island?) While Breslin and Butler are charming, the real revelation is witnessing the oft-serious Foster ham it up in a role requires plenty of slapstick, fish-out-of-water moments. Although teens might roll their eyes at NIM\'S unapologetically sugary scenes, younger children will enjoy the giddy mood present of the ISLAND.

10. Redbelt - $1.1M -- Mon, 12 May 2008 07:06:01 GMT

The films of David Mamet are usually filled with verbal sparring, but this drama about a mixed martial arts master promises bouts of another kind. Believing that fights will ruin his skills, Mike Terry (Chiwetel Ejiofor, TALK TO ME) reserves his talents in the ring for teaching others at the Southside Jiu-jitsu Academy. When Mike rescues a celebrity (played by Tim Allen) from a fight, his action leads him toward the temptation of competition.