Toy Story 3 Jump Starts Summers Box Office with Record Opening

After several weeks of below average box office weekend, Disney/Pixar came to the rescue.

‘Toy Story 3′ the much anticipated movie opened this weekend 11 years after ‘Toy Story 2′ opened in 1999 with a record breaking box office gross.

‘Toy Story 3′ has brought in an estimated $109 million dollars, making it the highest opening weekend for an animated movie. Topping the previous record made by ‘Shrek 2′ of $108.3 million.

This weekends other opener ‘Jonah Hex’, has been well hexed, the comic book western movie came in at 8th place with a blink and you miss it total of $5 million dollars. This makes it the summers 2nd lowest grossing opening weekend, ‘MacGruber’ grossed the lowest of $4 million when it opened back in May.

Last weeks number one ‘Karate Kid’ fell down to number two with $29 million, bringing its 2 week run to $106 million. ’The A-Team’ slipped to number 3 with $13.7 million for a grand total of $49.7 million, a far cry from its $110 million budget.

After its 3rd weekend in the release the awesomely funny ‘Get Him to the Greek’ came in at number four with $6.1 million, bringing to a total of $47 million. Falling to number five is ‘Shrek Forever After’ with $5.5 million.

Weekends Top Ten

1 Toy Story 3 – $109,000,000

2 The Karate Kid – $29,000,000

3 The A-Team – $13,775,000

4 Get Him to the Greek – $6,117,000

5 Shrek Forever After – $5,520,000

6 Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time – $5,273,000

7 Killers- $5,100,000

8 Jonah Hex – $5,085,000

9 Iron Man 2 – $2,675,000

10 Marmaduke – $2,650,000

Next week’s big opener is the Tom Cruise helmed ‘Knight & Day’, personally I think ‘Toy Story 3′ will be the hold over for next weekend.