Poor Jonah Hex didn't even crack the top 5...!!
Just where did he land?
Gregg Kilday of 'THR
Like kids ripping the wrapping paper off of a present, moviegoers rushed to Disney's "Toy Story 3" this weekend as Pixar's newest hit rang up an estimated $109 million.
Playing in 4,028 theaters, the further animated adventures of Woody, Buzz and the gang, this time in 3-D, posted the best opening weekend for a Pixar movie ever, leap-frogging the $70.5 million that "The Incredibles" posted in 2004.
Its slightly-frontloaded Friday gross of $41 million was the top opening day for an animated movie, besting the $39.4 million that "Shrek the Third" rang up in 2007, although "Toy" stopped short of setting a new weekend opening record for an animated movie, which the third "Shrek" still holds with $121.6 million.
With 11 number one openings for its 11 movies, Pixar's track record remains unbroken. "That kind of streak is unbeatable," Chuck Viane, Disney domestic distribution president, said. "They're the greatest story-tellers around. (Director) Lee Unkrich found a way to take everyone's best friends, Woody and Buzz," and deliver the goods like crazy."
On the other hand, audiences treated "Jonah Hex" like the proverbial lump of coal.
The PG-13 rated DC Comics adaptation, produced by Warners and Legendary and starring Josh Brolin as an avenging Civil War vet, took in just $5.1 million from 2,825 locations. That added up to a dismal eighth place debut.
Still, Hollywood appears to have snapped out of the boxoffice doldrums that becalmed ticket sales in May.
Even though families were flocking to "Toy Story," Sony's "The Karate Kid" held on respectably in its second weekend. Falling 48%, it easily captured the second spot as it pulled in an additional $29 million and saw its domestic tally rise to $106 million after its first 10 days.
Fox's "The A-Team," muscling through its second weekend, fell just 46% as it captured $13.8 million as its domestic cume closed in on the $50 million mark.
All together, the weekend's top 10 movies corralled $179.2 million, up 28% from the $139.8 million that the top 10 amassed during the comparable weekend last year when "The Proposal" was the number one film with an opening weekend of $33.6 million.
Toy Story breaks records; 'Jonah Hex' lands in eighth place...
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