‘Thor’ Thunders Past Competition For Second Week

The box office had a strong weekend, with both “Bridesmaids” and “Priest” outperforming expectations. “Bridesmaids” brought in $24.4 million to take second place while “Priest” earned $14.5 million taking the number four spot. Neither of these strong performers could catch “Thor,” which repeated at the top spot. “Thor” earned $34.5 million over the weekend, bringing its total to $119.3 million.

The Top-12 grossing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, May 15, 2011 are as follows:

RankFilm NameDistributor NameWeekend RevenueCume RevenueLocsLoc Avg1ThorParamount34,500,000119,252,3173,9638,7052BridesmaidsUniversal24,409,07024,409,0702,9188,3653Fast FiveUniversal19,533,950168,780,1503,7935,1504PriestSony14,500,00014,500,0002,8645,0625Rio20th Century Fox8,000,000124,968,1402,9292,7316Jumping The BroomSony7,300,00025,993,8142,0353,5877Something BorrowedWarner Bros.7,000,00025,646,5122,9042,4108Water For Elephants20th Century Fox4,100,00048,475,7802,4251,6909Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy FamilyLionsgate2,200,00050,218,1491,4491,51810Soul SurferSony1,800,00039,206,1681,4681,22611Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs EvilThe Weinstein Company1,031,0008,442,5931,27680712InsidiousFilmDistrict965,23351,681,2227621,266