User blog:Ceauntay/Box Office Report: 'Sonic X: The Final Stand' Make Best Animation Debut at $125.1 Million

The animated 3D pic also broke the 2011 box office and also broke five records.

CANNES -- The mighty Thor and raunchy female comedy Bridesmaids are beaten by animated film Sonic X: The Final Stand leading it to break about five records.

20th Century Fox's Sonic X: The Final Stand opened at No. 1 with $125.1 million. The fifth installment has now overtaken ''Scooby-Doo! The Movie ($114 million) by becoming the biggest opening of the year, and led it to become the biggest opening for an animated film overtaking Shrek the Third'' ($122 million), also for 3D, the franchise and from Fox.

It also opened in 90 foreign marks giving its opening to $214 million, bringing its global total to $339.1 million, which is now the biggest opening global for any animated films ever.

At No. 2 is Paramount and Marvel Studios’ Thor with $34.5 million for a domestic cume of $119.3 million. The superhero pic fell less than expected, or 48 percent (Fast Five fell 62 percent in its second outing). Worldwide, Thor has now cumed north of $300 million. Universal continued its recent winning streak with Paul Feig’s R-rated Bridesmaids, produced by Judd Apatow. The pic grossed $24.6 million — well more than expected — to come in No. 2, according to Rentrak. Fast Five, also from Universal, held well in its third weekend, dropping less than 40 percent to an estimated $19.5 million domestically. The action movie has now earned $168.8 million in North America and $271.1 million internationally, for an eye-popping global cume of $440.5 million. It’s now the most successful film in the franchise. Sony and Screen Gems’ Priest 3D debuted to No. 5 domestically, grossing an estimated $14.6 million to come in ahead of expectations. Overseas, the Paul Bettany starrer is doing better business, cuming $25.6 million in its first two weekends. Overall, domestic box office revenues were down just 3 percent from the same weekend last year.