Hanks, Allen’s ‘Toy Story 3′ scores big with $110.3 million launch
By APMonday, June 21, 2010
‘Toy Story 3′ scores big with $110.3M launch
LOS ANGELES — The toy market is on a hot streak at movie theaters.
Tom Hanks and Tim Allen’s animated sequel “Toy Story 3″ had a huge No. 1 debut, pulling in $110.3 million over opening weekend.
It was only the third animated film to break $100 million in the first weekend, following the second and third “Shrek” movies.
The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Hollywood.com are:
1. “Toy Story 3,” Disney, $110,307,189, 4,028 locations, $27,385 average, $110,307,189, one week.
2. “The Karate Kid,” Sony, $29,876,295, 3,663 locations, $8,156 average, $107,130,239, two weeks.
3. “The A-Team,” Fox, $14,405,318, 3,544 locations, $4,065 average, $50,427,588, two weeks.
4. “Get Him to the Greek,” Universal, $6,104,810, 2,592 locations, $2,355 average, $47,844,275, three weeks.
5. “Shrek Forever After,” Paramount, $5,620,398, 3,207 locations, $1,753 average, $223,076,925, five weeks.
6. “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time,” Disney, $5,566,464, 2,605 locations, $2,137 average, $80,800,574, four weeks.
7. “Jonah Hex,” Warner Bros., $5,379,365, 2,825 locations, $1,904 average, $5,379,365, one week.
8. “Killers,” Lionsgate, $5,035,755, 2,619 locations, $1,923 average, $39,302,411, three weeks.
9. “Iron Man 2,” Paramount, $2,872,252, 1,612 locations, $1,782 average, $304,210,329, seven weeks.
10. “Marmaduke,” Fox, $2,474,195, 2,495 locations, $992 average, $27,711,000, three weeks.
11. “Sex and the City 2,” Warner Bros., $2,411,025, 1,680 locations, $1,435 average, $90,170,101, four weeks.
12. “Robin Hood,” Universal, $1,422,715, 1,046 locations, $1,360 average, $102,079,505, six weeks.
13. “Splice,” Warner Bros., $932,470, 944 locations, $988 average, $15,569,488, three weeks.
14. “Letters to Juliet,” Summit, $790,430, 806 locations, $981 average, $48,591,409, six weeks.
15. “Raavan,” Reliance Big Pictures, $551,375, 119 locations, $4,633 average, $551,375, one week.
16. “Please Give,” Sony Pictures Classics, $475,334, 272 locations, $1,748 average, $2,657,874, eight weeks.
17. “Solitary Man,” Anchor Bay Films, $426,927, 107 locations, $3,990 average, $1,424,993, five weeks.
18. “Date Night,” Fox, $360,904, 345 locations, $1,046 average, $96,883,257, 11 weeks.
19. “Winter’s Bone,” Roadside Attractions, $351,316, 39 locations, $9,008 average, $474,328, two weeks.
20. “The Secret in Their Eyes,” Sony Pictures Classics, $282,288, 166 locations, $1,701 average, $4,942,582, 10 weeks.
Online:
www.hollywood.com/boxoffice
Universal Pictures and Focus Features are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of General Electric Co.; Sony Pictures, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount and Paramount Vantage are divisions of Viacom Inc.; Disney’s parent is The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is a division of The Walt Disney Co.; 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Fox Atomic are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a consortium of Providence Equity Partners, Texas Pacific Group, Sony Corp., Comcast Corp., DLJ Merchant Banking Partners and Quadrangle Group; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC Films is owned by Rainbow Media Holdings, a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corp.; Rogue Pictures is owned by Relativity Media LLC; Overture Films is a subsidiary of Liberty Media Corp.