Weekend Box Office: June 18-20

Here are the actual box office receipts from the weekend (in millions), with the film's total U.S. theater gross and weeks in release in parentheses:

1. TOY STORY 3 - $110.3 ($110.3, new)
2. THE KARATE KID - $29.9 ($107.1, 2)
3. THE A-TEAM - $14.4 ($50.4, 2)
4. GET HIM TO THE GREEK - $6.1 ($47.8, 3)
5. SHREK FOREVER AFTER - $5.62 ($223.1, 5)
6. PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME - $5.56 ($80.8, 4)
7. JONAH HEX - $5.4 ($5.4, new)
8. KILLERS - $5.0 ($39.3, 3)
9. IRON MAN 2 - $2.9 ($304.2, 7)
10. MARMADUKE - $2.5 ($27.7, 3)
[data from BoxOfficeMojo.com]



Toy Story 3 made a huge splash, and rightfully so, as the first Pixar film to cross the blockbuster $100 million threshold on opening weekend; the previous high for the flawless studio was $70.5 for The Incredibles. While the numbers were huge, ticket sales were on par with Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, and Toy Story 2; the big number is due to inflation and the rising cost of a 3D ticket. However, this is still an incredible start for the three-quel, and also the biggest opening weekend on record for June. Pixar films are also known for their incredible legs, so watch this film rake in the dough over the coming weeks. The big perk for releasing a family film over the summer are the relatively big numbers a film can do on weekdays.

The only other new release (why would you go up against Toy Story 3?!!) was the plagued Jonah Hex, a Western comic book adaptation that will do no favors for the careers of Josh Brolin and Megan Fox. The film has been getting bad buzz since clips were screened at Comic-Con last summer. Paired with weak interest from the fan boy community, and awful reviews across the board, the movie was a giant bomb. Not only one of the lowest opening weekends for a DC Comic adaptation, but also one of the lowest openings for a Western. Yikes. Trailers made the film look like a certifiable mess, without a clear plot or interesting big action set pieces.

Among holdovers, The Karate Kid, The A-Team, and Prince of Persia held on considerably well. Prince of Persia had the lowest weekend-to-weekend drop on the chart; compared to the U.S. numbers, the film is doing gangbusters internationally. Prince of Persia is also doing well compared to Sex and the City 2, which were released the same weekend; Sex and the City 2 now sits at #11, even though it premiered higher on the chart than Prince of Perisa. The Karate Kid was expected to take a big hit as families would flock to Toy Story 3 (obviously the reason the fourth Shrek film suffered such a sizable tumble), but still had a solid weekend.

Next week, Tom Cruise & Cameron Diaz's blend of big action and romantic comedy inKnight and Day hits theaters, along with Grown Ups, the hyped "all-star" summer comedy flick with the trailer you've seen 847 times.