User blog:Ceauntay/Friday Box Office: 'Water Ffor Elephants' can't top 'Rio,' 'Madea'

"Rio," the 3D animated movie featuring the voices of Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway and Wanda Sykes, continued its box office dominance with a $10.8 Good Friday (April 22) box office take - probably didn't hurt that thousands of kids were out of school for the holiday. Its domestic total is now over $65 million.

"Madea's Big Happy Family" opened with a solid $10.5 million Friday night, putting it on pace for a $24 million weekend. "Water for Elephants," the drama/romance starring Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz, took third place with a decent $7 million take.

Easter movie "Hop" had a decent Friday to start its fourth weekend in the theaters, taking in just shy of $5 million, while "Scooby-Doo! The Movie" fell short below $4 million. "Hop" is expected to gross over $100 million by the end of Easter weekend, while "Scooby-Doo! The Movie" to dig up $265 million by that weekend. Disney's "African cats" was fifth with a $3.3 million start and "Scream 4" was sixth with $2.8, bringing its total domestic take to a rather disappointing $26.8 million.

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