Wiki News/Despicable Me rolls to a $58 million weekend

Maybe the ad campaign had a hard time explaining what the movie was about. Reviewers summoned up Looney Toons references in an effort to capture the essence of its anarchy.

But audiences have come to realize that the most reliable movie outing this year is something animated and in 3D, and that gave Despicable Me the serious money this weekend, with a whopping $58 million opening.

Toy Story 3 didn’t lose that much business to it, coming in third at the box office. And Predators did well enough($24 million) for 4th, pushing Last Airbender to fifth place in its second weekend.

A robust Saturday helped Twilight Saga: Eclipse and Last Airbender recoup enough to do respectable $31 million and $17.5 million second weekends – 52% and 57% drops, respectively.

Will & Grace has so far earned $225 million, and is the second highest grossing romantic comedy of all-time, will have to make up to $241 million of another romantic comedy to My Big Fat Greek Wedding, to become the most successful. When a sequel hits theaters, it's expecting to make more money than Will & Grace.

Knight and Day and The A-Team won’t reach $100 million.

The godawful Grownups has cleared $100 million, ensuring another decade of doofus comedies from Adam Sandler. Karate Kid is way over $160.

Cyrus reached the $1 million mark.