In almost an illegal transfer the wallets of America were opened and picked over this weekend. No surprise, Iron Man 2 debuted at #1 and made a crapton of money. How much exactly? $133.6 million, far surpassing the $98.6 million opening of Iron Man in 2008. And obviously the Jon Favreau-directed sequel managed to draw a larger audience in than last year’s abortion of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which came to $85.1 million its first three days out. Iron Man 2 stirred a shebang of broken records, damaging Shreks and spider men to hold fourth-largest total gross on a given Saturday. Next to Spider-Man 3 the blockbuster also holds the highest opening weekend of May in all of history. To top it all off its triple-digit million dollar haul is the fifth-biggest weekender on record. What a way to start Hollywood’s summer.

A mockery what A Nightmare on Elm Street was made of. Dropping a startling 72.1% Samuel Bayer’s reboot made only $9.2 million its second weekend out, a new ten-day total of $48.5 million. No more fun and games in store for Freddy. What makes this even more hilarious is the fact that Bayer is whining, arms-crossed over “fans” not liking his Nightmare. Good times.

How to Train Your Dragon stooped 36.3% to third place with $6.8 million. Though DreamWorks will be sent cackling down the chart with each summer tentpole released. Dragon has already counted $201.1 million seven weekends out. Date Night will also be likely to disappear quickly counting its cash, at #4 this time throwing a sack of $5.3 million onto an impressive pile of $80.9 million. J-Lo’s The Back-Up Plan just won’t die, this weekend in fifth with $4.3 million. I dare not look at the $29.4 million the rom-com has already conjured; however I no longer need happy pills as this bomb has made validation of the term “colossal”.

Out of the top five-

• Thomas Balmes’s documentary Babies, following four multi-cultural infants from birth, started at #10 with $1.6 million on 534 screens.
• Rodrigo García’s well-liked adoption drama Mother and Child, playing on four screens, raked in $44,400. The movie, starring Annette Bening as a regretful mother, had a per-screen average of $11,100, second only to Iron Man 2’s $30,500 medium.
• Festival runner Multiple Sarcasms, about an unhappy man on the verge of writing a successful play, began with $17,800.

Here are the box office results according to studio estimates Sunday-

1. 1. Iron Man 2…$133.6 million
2. 2. A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)…$9.2 million
3. 3. How to Train Your Dragon…$6.8 million
4. 4. Date Night…$5.3 million
5. 5. The Back-Up Plan…$4.3 million
6. 6. Furry Vengeance…$4 million
7. 7. Clash of the Titans (2010)…$2.3 million
8. 8. Death at a Funeral…$2.1 million
9. 9. The Losers…$1.8 million
10. 10. Babies…$1.6 million