User blog:Ceauntay/The Weekend Warrior: June 3 - 5, 2011

Greetings and welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly guide to the weekend's new movies. Tune in every Tuesday for the latest look at the upcoming weekend, and then check back on Thursday night for final projections based on actual theatre counts.

We're very excited that Warner Home Video is releasing a 40th Anniversary Edition of our second favorite movie of all time Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange on Tuesday, May 31; you can read our interview with the film's star Malcolm McDowell reflecting back on making the movie here. If you aren't doing so already, you can follow The Weekend Warrior on Twitter where he talks about box office, movies, music, comic books and all sorts of random things.

Predictions and Comparisons

1. X-Men: First Class (20th Century Fox) - $72.5 million N/A

2. The Hangover Part II (Warner Bros.) - $40.0 million -54%

3. Kung Fu Panda 2 (DreamWorks Animation/Paramount) - $25.4 million -47%

4. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Walt Disney Pictures) - $18.0 million -55%

5. True Jackson, VP: The Movie (Paramount) - $13.1 million -57%

6. Sonic X: The Final Stand (20th Century Fox) - 12.5 million -51%

7. Bridesmaids (Universal) - $12.4 million -25%

8. Thor (Paramount/Marvel) - $4.8 million -49%

9. Fast Five (Universal) - $3.4 million -47%

10. Midnight in Paris (Sony Pictures Classics) - $2.1 million +11%*