"The Hangover" Seizes Top Honors -- Plus Soundtrack Scoops!

This morning's Mix gave you the dish on the weekend box office numbers as they were -- namely, with Up squeaking out a sliver of a victory over runner-up The Hangover. But hold the presses! The Todd Phillips-directed buddy flick -- for which we interviewed the supremely funny Zach Galifianakis last week -- actually took top honors once all cash was counted. And they truly eeked it out -- the margin between the films is roughly $300,000 to $400,000, Warner Brothers estimated. By the latest calculations, The Hangover takes between $44.6 and $44.8 million, while Up will likely tally around $44.4.

This is interesting for quite a few reasons. While a $44.4-million second weekend is hardly a loss for Pixar, it is a bit of a shock -- Up was the easy pick for No. 1, with its stellar reviews and a family-friendly tone that should've snagged significant matinee sales. But where adult audiences should've splintered -- with Will Ferrell loyalists migrating to Land of the Lost, and the rest chancing it on The Hangover -- they didn't. Lost failed to siphon off grownup (or family) moviegoers, never mounting a threat and allowing The Hangover and Up to cleanly split the difference. As pointed out, it's strange -- but efficient, I suppose -- to have summer's sleeper and biggest flop in the same weekend.

And speaking of the big winner:

One of the things we loved about The Hangover was its cheeky soundtrack, including a clever revival of "Who Let the Dogs Out?" (really, it's possible), and a great reference to Kanye West's "Can't Tell Me Nothing," the alternate music video of which Galifianakis starred (see above). Some music blogs are buzzing over tracks like these that didn't make it onto the officially released soundtrack, so if you're looking for a full (albeit unofficial) list of songs in the film, check out ReelSoundtrack's compilation.