The Avengers, $7 million ($2.3 million international). Rock of Ages, $8 million ($2.9 million international). Snow White & the Huntsman, $8.01 million ($22.6 million international). Prometheus, $10 million ($12.7 million international). Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, $16.5 million ($8.1 million international). Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, $20.2 million ($30.1 million international). Brave, $66.7 million ($13.5 million international). Final domestic figures will be released Monday. Where available, latest international numbers are also included.Estimated ticket sales were for Friday through Sunday at U.S.Mash-ups have been done, but the historical mash-up has not been done." "This is an interesting and untested genre that I think audiences are going to continue to seek out. "It's actually a good start for this movie," said Chris Aronson, the studio's head of distribution.Still, it was made for $69 million, a modest budget for a summer action movie, and 20th Century Fox had hopes it would hold up well over the next week or so before The Amazing Spider-Man and The Dark Knight Rises swoop in to take over cinemas in July.But critics were unimpressed, and action fans had only a passing interest in the movie, which featured relative unknown Benjamin Walker as Lincoln. president waging his own civil war against the blood-suckers of the republic. The R-rated Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter was a clever idea - the 16th U.S.Two-thirds of the film's business came from families, who also continued to flock to Madagascar 3, making a rare weekend when two PG-rated movies led the box office. The audience for Brave did lean toward females, who accounted for 57 percent of viewers."It is a phenomenal thing, these guys and their mastery of big storytelling and character development, delivering something that plays well to adults as well as kids, to girls as well as boys," Dave Hollis, Disney's head of distribution, said of Pixar.Brave matched the $66.1 million debut of Pixar's Cars 2, with male automotive lead Lightning McQueen, over the same weekend a year ago.The film proved that audiences will turn up for a female hero, not just the male protagonists of past Pixar flicks, such as Woody and Buzz of Toy Story, the robot of WALL-E or the rat and his chef buddy of Ratatouille.Brave features a voice cast led by Kelly Macdonald and Emma Thompson in a mother-daughter story of a young Scottish princess defying tradition that requires her to marry against her will.That gave the Sony Pictures Classics release a whopping average of $75,874 a theater, compared to $16,028 in 4,164 cinemas for Brave. Woody Allen's Italian romance To Rome with Love pulled in huge audiences in limited release, debuting with $379,371 in five theaters.The Focus Features film, playing in much narrower release than other top-10 movies, stars Carell and Knightley as heartbroken neighbors on a road trip as a killer asteroid hurtles toward Earth.The weekend's other new wide release, Steve Carell and Keira Knightley's apocalyptic romance Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, misfired with just $3.8 million, debuting at No."The Pixar brand just carries so much weight with the audience, it doesn't matter almost what the story is about if it has the Pixar name." "Their track record is just unbelievable," said Paul Dergarabedian, analyst for box-office tracker.1 since Toy Story launched Hollywood's age of computer animation in 1995. Brave is the 13th-straight Pixar release to open at No. 1 for two weekends and added $20.2 million to raise its domestic total to $157.6 million.
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