| Week 28/2010 US BOX OFFICE WEEKEND 09-11 July 2010 |
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This week, Universal opened the biggest opening weekend ever for the studio in more than a year. The animation Despicable Me dominated the box office with $56.4 million and is unable to take in as the largest non-Pixar original opening from Kung Fu Panda ($60.2 million). The other weekend fellow opener, Predators did some respectable opening by grossing $24.8 million for third place. Most of holdovers were holding relatively well this weekend. This week, Green Tea Movie was unable to provide you with in-depth analysis of the new opener. Check out the table for the top ten chart below. The top ten films this weekend surged to an estimated $191.1 million (second highest of the year), up a massive 45% from last year when Bruno opened at the top spot ($30.6 million); and up 37% from 2008 when Hellboy II debuted at number one with $34.5M. This is the third year in a row that Universal opened a new film at number one on this particular frame.
| Rank | Movie Title | Weekend Gross ($) | Change (%) | Total Gross ($) |
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| 1 | DESPICABLE ME | 56,397,125 | NEW | 56,397,125 |
| 2 | THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE | 31,708,438 | -51.1 | 235,370,815 |
| 3 | PREDATPRS | 24,760,882 | NEW | 24,760,882 |
| 4 | TOY STORY 3 | 21,015,598 | -30.6 | 339,240,857 |
| 5 | THE LAST AIRBENDER | 16,635,471 | -58.7 | 99,712,757 |
| 6 | GROWN UPS | 15,806,738 | -17.0 | 110,721,531 |
| 7 | KNIGHT & DAY | 7,719,251 | -26.1 | 61,808,110 |
| 8 | THE KARATE KID | 5,365,636 | -32.9 | 164,301,124 |
| 9 | THE A-TEAM | 1,752,421 | -45.1 | 73,923,594 |
| 10 | CYRUS | 1,280,470 | +65.3 | 3,426,545 |