Premier Pop C Pop Culture News – Movies, Comics, Television, Books, Toys, Games, and More The fifth installment in Universal’s “The Fast and The Furious” franchise showed why the film series is still going strong. “Fast Five” raced to an $83.6 million opening at the domestic box office, following up an international gross of $45.3 million for the weekend, bringing its international total to $165 million. The fast=paced open made the film the top April opener of all time.
The Top-12 grossing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, May 1, 2011 are as follows:
| Rank | Film Name | Distributor Name | Weekend Revenue | Cume Revenue | Locs | Loc Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fast Five | Universal | 83,629,800 | 83,629,800 | 3,644 | 22,950 |
| 2 | Rio | 20th Century Fox | 14,400,000 | 103,627,015 | 3,708 | 3,883 |
| 3 | Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family | Lionsgate | 10,050,000 | 41,080,114 | 2,288 | 4,392 |
| 4 | Water For Elephants | 20th Century Fox | 9,125,000 | 32,262,801 | 2,820 | 3,235 |
| 5 | Prom | Disney | 5,000,000 | 5,000,000 | 2,730 | 1,831 |
| 6 | Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs Evil | The Weinstein Company | 4,140,000 | 4,140,000 | 2,505 | 1,652 |
| 7 | Soul Surfer | Sony | 3,300,000 | 33,775,152 | 2,010 | 1,641 |
| 8 | Insidious | FilmDistrict | 2,687,172 | 48,307,408 | 1,584 | 1,696 |
| 9 | HOP | Universal | 2,556,680 | 105,276,245 | 3,176 | 805 |
| 10 | Source Code | Summit Entertainment | 2,532,000 | 48,909,364 | 1,645 | 1,539 |
| 11 | African Cats | Disney | 2,336,000 | 10,601,021 | 1,224 | 1,908 |
| 12 | Hanna | Focus Features | 2,203,266 | 35,904,479 | 1,569 | 1,404 |
