Premier Pop C Pop Culture News – Movies, Comics, Television, Books, Toys, Games, and More “Rio” has become the top grossing 2011 release, ending Easter weekend with a new worldwide cume of $286 million. That easily bests Paramount’s Rango, which has earned just under $240 million globally. Rio topped the box office chart for the weekend in a big win for Fox. The 3D cartoon grossed an estimated $26.8 million from 3,842 theaters in its second weekend for a cume of $81.3 million.
The Top-12 grossing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, April 24, 2011, are as follows:
| Rank | Film Name | Distributor Name | Weekend Revenue | Cume Revenue | Locs | Loc Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rio | 20th Century Fox | 26,800,000 | 81,261,126 | 3,842 | 6,975 |
| 2 | Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family | Lionsgate | 25,750,000 | 25,750,000 | 2,288 | 11,254 |
| 3 | Water For Elephants | 20th Century Fox | 17,500,000 | 17,500,000 | 2,817 | 6,212 |
| 4 | HOP | Universal | 12,460,917 | 100,499,917 | 3,616 | 3,446 |
| 5 | Scream 4 | The Weinstein Company | 7,154,000 | 31,158,263 | 3,314 | 2,158 |
| 6 | African Cats | Disney | 6,400,000 | 6,400,000 | 1,220 | 5,245 |
| 7 | Soul Surfer | Sony | 5,600,000 | 28,664,404 | 2,240 | 2,500 |
| 8 | Insidious | FilmDistrict | 5,383,744 | 44,177,538 | 2,130 | 2,527 |
| 9 | Hanna | Focus Features | 5,276,801 | 31,717,987 | 2,384 | 2,213 |
| 10 | Source Code | Summit Entertainment | 5,063,000 | 44,664,244 | 2,363 | 2,142 |
| 11 | Arthur | Warner Bros. | 4,100,000 | 29,250,508 | 2,770 | 1,480 |
| 12 | Limitless | Relativity Media | 2,646,000 | 73,983,594 | 1,363 | 1,941 |
