Sunday, June 17, 2012

Zoo Animals Defeat Tom Cruise, Adam Sandler at Box Office

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted easily held onto its top spot at the worldwide box office this weekend. The DreamWorks movie brought in an estimated $35.5 million in North America, and $53 million from 43 foreign markets, according to Box Office Mojo.

Bringing its total worldwide lifetime gross to $277,451,000, Madagascar 3 demolished its live-action competition. It earned more than the No. 3 and No. 4 movies (both in their first week, and starring Cruise and Sandler, respectively) combined.

Although it's not an instant classic, I'm glad to see Europe's Most Wanted do well, since it's one of DreamWorks better efforts and a fun experience on the big screen overall. But it's only a matter of days until it inevitably surrenders to Pixar's bow-wielding princess.

4 comments:

Jon R. LaFollette said...

Technically, it defeated the No. 3 and No. 4 movies (featuring Tom Cruise and Adam Sandler)combined. Prometheus still held on to its No. 2 spot.

Mike Bastoli said...

Thanks for the correction.

Anonymous said...

Is this really news. Big family movies always dominate the box office.

Matt said...

I'd assume on an animation blog that having an animated movie sit at #1 for two straight weeks would be a story. No?