A Bigger, Badder 'Hulk' Tops The Box-Office? Not So Fast...Ang Lee's Actually Made More $$$ During Its Opening Week

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A Bigger, Badder Hulk? Actually Ang Lee's 'Hulk' Made More $$$ Opening Weekened
Published 6/16/2008 at OH NO!!
... original embarrassment, right? Not quite... "The Incredible Hulk," directed by Louis Leterrier, opened this weekend with a winning $54.5 million, but it was well off the opening of Ang Lee/ Eric Bana's 2003 version of the green monster film which opened five years ago to a substantially larger $62.1 million. Source: The Playlist

Bad Math and Short Memories Spin Wacky 'Hulk' Hate-In [The Green Stuff]
Published 6/19/2008 by STV at Defamer
... , where a comparison of Hulk '03 and Hulk '08 indicates the latter film underperformed its predecessor by $7 million after five days in release. The inference — intentional or not — is that after all that Marvel did to disown the first Hulk, the second couldn't even keep up. Such hubris, right? Such a letdown! At least that's the read laid forth in a more explicit crack analysis at The Playlist: ...

Diddy Hard at Work on Most Exciting Film of All Time
Published 6/19/2008 at Vulture
... New Hulk Not As Smashy As Hoped: Marvel Studios' David Maisel may be publically thrilled with the box office for the rebooted Incredible Hulk franchise ($55 million on opening weekend), but it actually performed worse than Ang Lee's "failed" 2003 version, which pulled in $7 million more in its first three days of release. [The Playlist] ...