'Shrek Forever After' is top movie for third weekend
Hollywood is in a June swoon as a rush of new movies fails to grab audiences.
DreamWorks Animation's "Shrek Forever After" remained the No. 1 movie for a third-straight weekend with $25.3 million, The Associated Press reports. It raised its three-week domestic total to $183 million.
The overall box office tumbled, coming in at $125 million, down 24 percent compared with the same weekend last year, when "The Hangover" opened with $45 million, according to box-office tracker Hollywood.com.
The best of the newcomers was Universal's rock and roll comedy "Get Him to the Greek," which debuted at No. 2 with $17.4 million. The following are estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Final figures will be released Monday.
1. "Shrek Forever After," $25.3 million.
2. "Get Him to the Greek," $17.4 million.
3. "Killers," $16.1 million.
4. "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time," $13.9 million.
5. "Sex and the City 2," $12.7 million.
6. "Marmaduke," $11.3 million.
7. "Iron Man 2," $7.8 million.
8. "Splice," $7.5 million.
9. "Robin Hood," $5.1 million.
10. "Letters to Juliet," $3 million.