Here are all the numbers. Wolverine is currently in the lead. For king of the box office (worldwide gross) this summer, my money is on Harry Potter with Transformers 2 as my second pick.
Angels and Demons:
Domestic: $96,960,000 48.7%
+ Foreign: $102,060,465 51.3%
= Worldwide: $199,020,465
Star Trek:
Domestic: $200,350,000 68.5%
+ Foreign: $92,015,063 31.5%
= Worldwide: $292,365,063
Terminator Salvation:
Domestic: $79,607,000 100.0%
+ Foreign: n/a 0.0%
= Worldwide: $79,607,000
Wolverine:
Domestic: $168,145,000 53.7%
+ Foreign: $144,996,110 46.3%
= Worldwide: $313,141,110
Night at the Museum:
Domestic: $87,346,000 100.0%
+ Foreign: n/a 0.0%
= Worldwide: $87,346,000
Up:
Domestic: $21,400,000 100.0%
+ Foreign: n/a 0.0%
= Worldwide: $21,400,000
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
