This past weekend, the kid friendly Despicable Me earned the top spot ousting the emo vampires and wolves of Twlight, but Predator’s triumphant return to the big screen only drew a modest grab for your green falling under Twilight for third place.
Boxoffice Mojo reports the estimates:
Despicable Me – $60,117,000 – Opening
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse – $33,400,000 – 2wks
Predators – $25,300,000 – Opening
Toy Story 3 – $22,000,000 – 4wks
The Last Airbender – $17,150,000 – 2wks
Toy Story still respectfully holds on as the go-to film of this first half of the Summer. But it seems the negative reviews The Last Airbender has acquired didn’t overcome the pointless racial bashing the film is getting from the purists, and the movie nearly dropped out of the top 5 completely.
I don’t know that Twilight or Predators will even Rank on the Top 5, when the much anticipated Inception is released next week.
I quite expect Toy Story 3 and Despicable Me to be in there somewhere.
