Weekend Box Office: Despicable Me debuts at #1

Weekend Box Office

July 9 - 11, 2010

(Weekend Gross / Total Gross)

 1. Despicable Me

($60,117,000 / debut)

2. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

($33,400,000 / $237,000,000)

3. Predators

($25,300,000 / debut)

4. Toy Story 3

($22,000,000 / $340,200,000)

5. The Last Airbender

($17,150,000 / $100,227,000)

6. Grown Ups

($16,400,000 / $111,315,000)

7. Knight and Day

($7,850,000 / $61,939,000)

8. The Karate Kid

($5,700,000 / $164,600,000)

9. The A-Team

($1,800,000 / $73,971,000)

10. Cyrus

($1,375,000 / $3,521,000)

Few notes about this week's milestones:

• Despicable Me is the second-best opening ever for a non-Pixar, original animated movie behind 2008's Kung Fu Panda, and could top that movie's $60.2 million start when actual numbers are reported tomorrow. 
• This is the second-best opening for a Predator movie behind 2004's Alien Vs. Predator, though the addition of the Alien brand surely aided in that movie's grosses.
• Toy Story 3 has passed Alice In Wonderland to become the top movie of 2010.
• Toy Story 3 also barely topped Finding Nemo to become Pixar's highest-grossing movie ever