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Sunday, July 11, 2010

Box Office Updates - Despicable Me Surprises with $60 Million Weekend


Box Office analysts are amazed. Universal Studio's new movie, "Despicable Me" beat expectations with a very respectable debut of $60 million also placing first at the box office. The movie has received very positive word from both critics and audiences. Which should serve it well in the hot dreary days of the summer. Placing second was last week's top movie, "Eclipse" with a $33 million finish bringing it's total gross to, a huge $237 million. Placing third this week was a new entry to the summer box office, Fox Studio's "Predators" which finished with a disappointing $25 million. Also worth mentioning this week is Toy Story 3 the movie that continues to maintain a strong hold on the competition. The movie finished with $22 million bringing it's total domestic gross to $340 million. Worldwide, the movie has earned over $550 million. Clearly, the movie continues to be on the fast track for overall highest grossing movie of the year.

The top 10 movies at the box office were as follows........

1 - Despicable Me - $60 Million

2 - Eclipse - $33 Million

3 - Predators - $25 Million

4 - Toy Story 3 - $22 Million

5 - The Last Airbender - $17 Million

6 - Grown Ups - $16 Million

7 - Knight and Day - $7 Million

8 - The Karate Kid - $5 Million

9 - The A Team - $1.8 Million

10 - Cyrus - $1.3 Million

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