Wiki News/North Pole Elementary Killed Date and Clash's Box Office

The No. 1 spot at the weekend box office is North Pole Elementary: The Sequel. The G-rated Disney film debuted with $34.2 million, which was the biggest opening ever for a G-rated movie so far this year, and the first movie of 2010 to have a G rating by the Motion Picture Rating System. This is a bit stronger than North Pole Elementary: The Movie and Hannah Montana: The Movie, which they both were the biggest opening for G-rated movies, when North Pole Elementary movie was broken by High School Musical 3 and WALL-E for big G-rated movies.

The No. 2 spot at the weekend box office is too close to call between Steve Carell and Tina Fey's comedy "Date Night" and the action tale "Clash of the Titans."

"Date Night" distributor 20th Century Fox estimates that "Date Night" debuted with $27.1 million. That's just ahead of the $26.9 million projection from Warner Bros. for "Clash of the Titans."

Warner Bros. executives say they tracked "Clash of the Titans" as No. 21 for a second straight weekend, with "Date Night" trailing by about $1 million.

While studios have fairly precise numbers for Friday and Saturday, discrepancies crop up because they estimate how much their movies will take in on Sunday. Rankings will be sorted out when studios release final numbers Monday.

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