Rio Wins Box Office Weekend Again
The weekend box office saw the power of animation again as both Rio and Hop took the #1 and #4 spots respectively and Rio, the CG animated story of some love sick birds kept it’s #1 spot for the second week in a row.
Following in a very strong second to Rio is Tyler Perry’s latest “Madea” adventure, “Madea’s Big Happy Family”. Coming in third is “Water For Elephants”.
The holiday weekend turned out alright for Hollywood and the cumulative seems strong enough for the upcoming month of May where the heavyweight superhero movies like “Thor” are to debut.
The fact that two animated movies remain in the top five, with one maintaining the top sport for two weeks straight means that Hollywood has to acknowledge that animation is still strong with audiences even if they don’t come from Disney.
This will set more money flowing for the animation fare as earlier a surprise from George Lucas’ studios, “Rango” starring Johnny Depp made quite the unexpected spark giving the other animation studios a run for their money.
This May the battle lines will be drawn and if “Thor” does as well as expected you’ll see more cartoon based movies dominating the market for years.
1. Rio $26,800,000
2. Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family $25,750,000
3. Water for Elephants $17,500,000
4. Hop $12,461,000
5. Scream 4 $7,154,000
6. African Cats $6,400,000
7. Soul Surfer $5,600,000
8. Insidious $5,384,000
9. Hanna $5,277,000
10. Source Code $5,063,000
Category: Movie News
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