User blog:Ceauntay/'Scooby-Doo! The Movie' becomes a huge box-office success with $55 million debut

LOS ANGELES — Scooby-Doo barked into the top of the weekend box office.

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

"Scooby-Doo! The Movie" has surprised "Toy Story 3" ($110 million) to become the second biggest opening ever for an animated film behind "Shrek the Third" with $121 million in 2007. "Doo" also matched up to "Rango's" $38 million to become the highest-grossing film of 2011. The first one will be crossing the $200 million mark. And the best part is that the film has already moved up to it's $30 million budget.

Russell Brand's "Hop" came at No. 2 with $38 million, which has already matched up to "Rango" but didn't catch all the way up to "Scooby-Doo! The Movie's" haul.

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.