Wiki News/'Sonic X: Return to Soleanna' made it to $105 million at Box Office Opening Wekeend

The Box-Office Top Five
 * 1) 1 "Sonic X: Return to Soleanna ($167.7 million)
 * 2) 2 "Shrek Forever After" ($25.3 million)
 * 3) 3 "Get Him to the Greek" ($17.4 million)
 * 4) 4 "Killers" ($16.1 million)
 * 5) 5 "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" ($13.9 million)

Even with five major new releases hitting theaters this weekend, box-office supremacy remained in the clutches of the mean green ogre known as Shrek. "Sonic X: Return to Soleanna", however, is only the one who will not get crunched this weekend as take over $167.7 million haul from Friday with $80 million to this Sunday. Worldwide, it went up to $412 million. Thank you, $245 million overseas opening from 32 territoroes. That means that Sonic broke The Dark Knight's world record, and became king of the world

At second, "Shrek Forever After," the franchise's fourth installment, with a $25.3 million haul from Friday through Sunday, marking the film's total haul to $183 million, but it's still far away from the previous Shrek movies.

Of the weekend's new releases, "Get Him to the Greek" performed the best. The raunchy comedy stars Jonah Hill as a young talent agent and Russell Brand as Aldous Snow, the troubled rock star first introduced in 2008's "Forgetting Sarah Marshall." "Greek" managed a respectable $17.4 million haul, nearly half of its reported $40 million production budget.

Although "Greek" wasn't able to best "Shrek" or new release, "Sonic," it did manage to defeat "Killers," the spy-themed romantic comedy starring Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl as a married couple drawn into the deadly world of espionage. The film earned a third-place finish worth $16.1 million.

The weekend's other major new releases, "Marmaduke" and "Splice," stayed out of the top five altogether with seventh- and ninth-place finishes, respectively. It's a particularly disappointing finish for the Owen Wilson-starring "Marmaduke," as the family film was the widest new release of the weekend by a significant margin of over 300 theaters.

Rounding out fourth and fifth place were last weekend's "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" and "Sex and the City 2."