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Celeb MOVIE » "Cars 2" Races to the Top of the Box Office


Speeding past the competition, "Cars 2 3D" raced its way to the top spot at the box office over the weekend of June 24-26, 2011.

The Pixar/Disney offering continued in the trend of animation domination by earning $25.7 million on opening day while trending towards an estimated weekend take of $70 million.


Garnering the runner-up position was the Cameron Diaz/ Justin Timberlake starring comedy "Bad Teacher" - with the raunchy Jake Kasdan directed picture pulling in an opening day total of $12.1 million en route to an anticipated weekend total of $31 million.

Rounding out the top five were the Ryan Reynolds/ Blake Lively fronted comic book based movie "Green Lantern" ($19.4 million), followed by "Mr. Popper’s Penguins" ($13 million) and "Super 8" ($12.1 million).






 
Cameron Diaz with Justin Timberlake

 
Elle Fanning with Tom Cruise