Premier Pop C Pop Culture News – Movies, Comics, Television, Books, Toys, Games, and More Cars 2 easily won the weekend box office race, grossing $68 million and far outpacing expectations. The Pixar sequel beat the $60.1 million debut of the original Cars, scored the fourth best opening of 2011, and delivered Pixar its 12th No. 1 opening.
The Top-12 grossing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, June 26, 2011 are as follows:
| Rank | Film Name | Distributor Name | Weekend Revenue | Cume Revenue | Locs | Loc Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cars 2 | Disney | 68,000,000 | 68,000,000 | 4,115 | 16,524 |
| 2 | Bad Teacher | Sony | 31,000,000 | 31,000,000 | 3,049 | 10,167 |
| 3 | Green Lantern | Warner Bros. | 18,350,000 | 89,311,421 | 3,816 | 4,808 |
| 4 | Super 8 | Paramount | 12,100,000 | 95,186,232 | 3,424 | 3,533 |
| 5 | Mr. Popper’s Penguins | 20th Century Fox | 10,300,000 | 39,447,679 | 3,342 | 3,081 |
| 6 | X-Men: First Class | 20th Century Fox | 6,600,000 | 132,814,928 | 2,633 | 2,506 |
| 7 | Hangover 2, The | Warner Bros. | 5,865,000 | 243,942,681 | 2,755 | 2,128 |
| 8 | Bridesmaids | Universal | 5,371,995 | 146,659,020 | 2,031 | 2,645 |
| 9 | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Ti | Disney | 4,702,000 | 229,060,301 | 2,244 | 2,095 |
| 10 | Midnight in Paris | Sony Pictures Classics | 4,480,768 | 28,580,358 | 951 | 4,711 |
| 11 | Kung Fu Panda 2 | Paramount | 4,150,000 | 153,042,497 | 2,527 | 1,642 |
| 12 | Tree Of Life, The | Fox Searchlight | 1,360,000 | 5,875,264 | 215 | 6,325 |
