Premier Pop C Pop Culture News – Movies, Comics, Television, Books, Toys, Games, and More The apes have conquered the multiplex. Expected to earn around $30 million in its opening weekend, 20th Century Fox’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes surprised the box office with a $54 million opening, easily taking the top spot. Meanwhile, the weekends other new movie, “The Change Up” continued Green Lantern star Ryan Reynolds streak of underperforming films, opening far short of expectations.
The Top-12 grossing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, August 7, 2011, are as follows:
| Rank | Film Name | Distributor Name | Weekend Revenue | Cume Revenue | Locs | Loc Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | 20th Century Fox | 54,000,000 | 54,000,000 | 3,648 | 14,802 |
| 2 | Smurfs, The | Sony | 21,000,000 | 76,201,831 | 3,395 | 6,185 |
| 3 | Cowboys & Aliens | Universal | 15,748,030 | 67,368,095 | 3,754 | 4,195 |
| 4 | Change-Up, The | Universal | 13,501,755 | 13,501,755 | 2,913 | 4,635 |
| 5 | Captain America: The First Avenger | Paramount | 13,000,000 | 143,182,045 | 3,620 | 3,591 |
| 6 | Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows II | Warner Bros. | 12,160,000 | 342,801,014 | 3,175 | 3,829 |
| 7 | Crazy, Stupid, Love | Warner Bros. | 12,100,000 | 42,185,106 | 3,020 | 4,006 |
| 8 | Friends With Benefits | Sony | 4,700,000 | 48,538,404 | 2,398 | 1,959 |
| 9 | Horrible Bosses | Warner Bros. | 4,620,000 | 105,162,163 | 2,025 | 2,281 |
| 10 | Transformers: Dark Of The Moon | Paramount | 3,015,000 | 344,173,341 | 1,854 | 1,626 |
| 11 | Zookeeper | Sony | 2,150,000 | 73,594,764 | 1,724 | 1,247 |
| 12 | Cars 2 | Disney | 1,135,000 | 184,719,494 | 926 | 1,225 |
