Brave earned $66.7 million dollars to take the number one spot in its opening weekend. Madagascar 3 dropped to number two, making the top two weekend films both animated!
The family-friendly Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted barely edged out the sci-fi horror film Prometheus for first place in the weekend box office. Meanwhile, the Avengers showed up in the top five for the seventh straight weekend.
Prometheus and Madagascar 3 are off to equally strong starts in the weekend box offices. These two competing films got us wondering about who might win between other interesting historical pairs.
Chronicle barely beat Daniel Radcliffe's first post-Harry Potter role in The Woman in Black. The other new film of the weekend, Big Miracle, failed to catch fire and banked $8.5 million.
The real story here is the absurd totals Transformers: Dark of the Moon has brought in since hitting theaters on Tuesday. In only one week, the studio tentpole has accumulated $415 million worldwide.
The film took the number one spot at the box office this weekend with a solid opening weekend. X-Men: First Class came in second with a relatively small second weekend drop
Darth Vader: Where is Padme? Is she safe? Is she all right? Darth Sidious: It seems in your anger... you killed her. Darth Vader: I... I couldn't have! She was alive; I felt it... I... Nooooooo!