User blog:Ceauntay/'Scooby-Doo' Scores 2011 to $55 Mil Debut

The brown dog has barked to the top of the weekend box office scaring away the easter bunny.

Warner Bros. "Scooby-Doo! The Movie" debut at No. 1 with $112 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

The animated film has officially broken a box office record where has already pass "Toy Story 3" ($110 million) to become the second best debut for an animated film behind "Shrek the Third" ($121 million), as well as it surprised "Rango" with $38 million opening. The film did also went on Saturday and Sunday and that's why that it made a lot of money.

This is also beyond a huge opening for Warne Bros. when the film is already the highest-grossing film of 2011 so far passing "Rango" to $108 million. Even better, it's way ahead of the $60 million opening to the expectations of the studio, and just only cost $30 million to produce.

Meanwhile Russel Brand's family comedy "Hop" debut at No. 2 with just $38.1 million, matching up to "Rango" which also made $38 million.

Jake Gyllenhaal's action thriller "Source Code" debuted at No. 3 with $15.1 million. The haunted-house tale "Insidious" opened at No. 4 with $13.5 million.

The previous weekend's top movie, "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules," fell to No. 5 with $10.2 million, raising its total to $38.4 million. "I Wanna Live The Dream" has passed the $80 million mark.