Premier Pop C Pop Culture News – Movies, Comics, Television, Books, Toys, Games, and More Paramount and Marvel Studios scored another victory as Captain America: The First Avenger topped the domestic box office with an estimated $65.8 million launch, in line with fellow superhero pic Thor and successfully priming the audience for next summer’s The Avengers.
The Top-12 grossing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, July 24, 2011 are as follows:
| Rank | Film Name | Distributor Name | Weekend Revenue | Cume Revenue | Locs | Loc Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Captain America: The First Avenger | Paramount | 65,827,000 | 65,827,000 | 3,715 | 17,719 |
| 2 | Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows II | Warner Bros. | 48,065,000 | 274,182,069 | 4,375 | 10,986 |
| 3 | Friends With Benefits | Sony | 18,500,000 | 18,500,000 | 2,926 | 6,322 |
| 4 | Transformers: Dark Of The Moon | Paramount | 12,000,000 | 325,789,450 | 3,375 | 3,555 |
| 5 | Horrible Bosses | Warner Bros. | 11,720,000 | 82,402,384 | 3,104 | 3,775 |
| 6 | Zookeeper | Sony | 8,700,000 | 59,204,200 | 3,215 | 2,706 |
| 7 | Cars 2 | Disney | 5,726,000 | 176,445,438 | 2,668 | 2,146 |
| 8 | Winnie The Pooh | Disney | 5,141,000 | 17,573,251 | 2,405 | 2,137 |
| 9 | Bad Teacher | Sony | 2,600,000 | 94,354,763 | 2,034 | 1,278 |
| 10 | Midnight in Paris | Sony Pictures Classics | 1,899,246 | 44,877,790 | 621 | 3,058 |
| 11 | Bridesmaids | Universal | 1,346,400 | 163,853,285 | 680 | 1,980 |
| 12 | Larry Crowne | Universal | 1,029,825 | 34,337,755 | 1,035 | 995 |
