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Monsters Beat Zombies At Box Office

Monsters UniversityDisney and Pixar’s “Monsters University” opened to $82 million, beating Brad Pitt and ‘”World War Z” by almost $20 million. Despite “World War Z” substantially outperforming expectations, it was not enough to take the number one spot from “Monsters, Inc.” sequel  which was the No. 2 Pixar opening of all time after Toy Story 3. “Man Of Steel” remained strong in third place, bringing in $41 million in its sophomore week.

The top 12 films of the weekend, as of Sunday, June 24, are as follows:

RANKTITLEDISTRIBUTOR NAMEWEEKEND REVENUECUME REVENUE
REVENUE# OF LOCATIONS*LOC AVG
1Monsters UniversityDisney$82,000,0004,00420,479$82,000,000
2World War ZParamount$66,000,0003,60718,297$66,000,000
3Man Of SteelWarner Bros.$41,215,0004,2079,796$210,005,947
4This Is The EndSony$13,000,0003,0554,255$57,791,524
5Now You See MeLionsgate$7,870,0002,8232,787$94,450,976
6Fast & Furious 6Universal$4,725,2352,4171,955$228,412,705
7Internship, The20th Century Fox$3,425,0001,9161,787$38,364,505
8Purge, TheUniversal$3,411,5502,2011,550$59,427,995
9Star Trek Into DarknessParamount$3,000,0001,5651,916$216,610,916
10Iron Man 3Disney$2,175,0009242,353$403,120,000
11Bling Ring, TheA24 Films$2,000,0006503,076$2,341,241
12Epic20th Century Fox$1,730,0001,994867$100,985,125

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