Wiki News/'Sonic' tops Friday box office

This weekend, Fox's "Sonic X: Return to Soleanna" slays last week, and other newer releases along with this movie at the box office.

The IMAX animated video game pic took in an estimated $80 million in 4,391 runs on Friday, besting "The Twilight Saga: New Moon's" $72 million, for biggest opening day of all-time.

Paramount and Dreamworks Animation's "Shrek Forever After", an 3D and IMAX 3D animation pic took the No. 2 spot in an estimated $6.7 million in 4,386 runs on Friday, besting several new films that opened this week, but was punched by Sonic the Hedgehog this weekend.

Universal's "Get Him to the Greek" grabbed the No. 3 spot on Friday with an estimated $6.2 million in 2,697 engagements. Lionsgate's "Killers," which co-stars Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl, earned about $5.6 million in 2,859 runs to No. 4. The Warner Bros. sequel "Sex and the City" earned an estimated $4.2 million in 3,445 engagements to N. 5, while Disney's video game adaptation "Prince of Persia" came in at No. 6 with about $4 million in 3,646 runs.

Fox's "Marmaduke" took the No. 7 spot with about $3.4 million in 3,213 runs. The Warner Bros. sci-fier "Splice" followed with roughly $2.7 million in 2,450 runs. Paramount's "Iron Man 2" grabbed the No. 8 spot, earning about $2.1 million in 3,007 engagements. Rounding out the bottom two were Universal's "Robin Hood" (roughly $1.4 million in 2,599 runs) and Summit's "Letters to Juliet" (about $960,000 in 1,962 engagements).