User blog:Ceauntay/'Scooby-Doo' smashes $55 million opening

right|400px Four new releases has topped the old release this weekend when Warner Bros. cartoon film "Scooby-Doo! The Movie" has won the weekend box office and the 2011 opening at the box office making in an impressive $114 million taking from 4119 runs and only cost $30 million to release. It also includes $19 million from 233 IMAX runs.

"Scooby-Doo! The Movie" now stands as the second biggest opening for an animated film ever behind "Shrek the Third" which holds the record since its 2007 opening with $121 million and ended up with $322 million, and already ahead of "Toy Story 3" with $110 million and its $415 million total haul, makes it the second highest-grossing film for an animated film of all-time behind "Shrek 2" to $441 million since 2004.

In fact, "Scooby-Doo! The Movie" will not make as much money as them as it should be ended up to about $290 million domestically like most Warner Bros. films does such as "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" ($292 million), "Inception" ($292.5 million) and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1" ($294.9 million). Also, it catched up to "Rango's" $38 million last month before it's total of $113 million, and "Scooby-Doo! The Movie" surprised it to become the highest-grossing film of 2011. However it's estimated $112 million was behind it, but it's actual ones had it ahead of it.

Three more new releases are also hits. Universial live-action-cartoon film "Hop" starring James Marsden and voice of Russell Brand as a teenage bunny, came to second place with $37.5 million from 3579 runs, followed by the Jake Gyllenhaal thriller "Source Code" to $14.8 million from 2961 runs, and the horror film "Insidious" produced by producers of "Saw" & "Paranormal Activity", came fourth to $13.2 million from 2408 runs.

"Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules" has gotten a wedgie this weekend as it get bullied down to fifth place with another $10 million for it's total of $38 million from 3,169 runs. It fell 57 percent from last weekend. Meanwhile, "Sucker Punch" fell a distrubing 68 percent from last weekend with $6 million from 3033 runs, for a total of $29 million in two weeks. The film cost $82 million to make. Ouch!