The Disney (DIS)/Pixar (PIXR) eagerly anticipated film Cars zoomed to finish in first place in the North American box office this weekend with close to $63 million. It easily beat out all other films by a three-to-one margin with its closest competitor The Break Up coming in second with a little over $20 million.
This is Disney and Pixar's seventh straight number one hit they've had working together. The film averaged almost $16,000 per showing.
Cars did end up being the second largest June opening in history behind Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban which opened two years ago with a huge $93.7 million.
Here are the top ten films for the weekend:
|
1 |
Cars | 62,800,000 |
| 2 | The Break-Up | 20,500,000 |
| 3 | X-Men: The Last Stand | 15,550,000 |
| 4 | The Omen | 15,450,000 |
| 5 | Over The Hedge | 10,301,000 |
| 6 | The Da Vinci Code | 10,300,000 |
| 7 | A Prairie Home Companion | 4,600,000 |
| 8 | Mission: Impossible 3 | 3,000,000 |
| 9 | RV | 2,100,000 |
| 10 | Poseidon | 1,700,000 |
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