Horton Hears a Who, the latest computer animated feature film from Blue Sky Studios, was a huge box office winner over the weekend, capitalizing on family audiences to earn an estimated total of $45.1 million. Based on the Dr. Seuss book of the same name, Horton Hears a Who features the voice work of Jim Carrey, Steve Carrel, Carol Burnett, Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, and Will Arnett, and provided 20th Century Fox with the biggest opening of the year thus far.
Last weekend’s box office champ, the prehistoric saga 10,000 B.C., slipped to a distant second with $16.4 million in ticket sales, bringing its 10-day total to a solid $61.2 million.
Other new entries into the top-10 this week included Never Back Down (No. 3), the story of a troubled teen who finds new direction in the sport of mixed martial arts, and the horror thriller Doomsday (No. 7), about a modern-day epidemic that forces the entire nation of Scotland to be quarantined.
Here’s the complete Top 10 for the weekend of 3/16/08:
- Horton Hears a Who, $45.1 million
- 10,000 B.C., $16.4 million
- Never Back Down, $8.6 million
- College Road Trip, $7.9 million
- Vantage Point, $5.4 million
- The Bank Job, $4.9 million
- Doomsday, $4.7 million
- Semi-Pro, $3 million
- The Other Boleyn Girl, $2.9 million
- The Spiderwick Chronicles, $2.4 million
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