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Because of the new 3D competition from Toy Story and losing 660 venues, Shrek Forever After drops to fifth place and sees a steep drop of 65%. After finishing with a $15.8 million gross last weekend, Shrek Forever After earned $5.5 million. Still, Shrek 4 should end up with an open-to-domestic finish multiplier of about 3.5, not bad for a sequel opening at $70 million. So far, the Paramount/DreamWorks film has earned $222.9 million domestically.

Prince of Persia is sixth and has a much better hold than its 54% slip last weekend. Now in its fourth weekend, the high adventure flick earned $5.3 million and dips only 19%. It has a domestic running total of $80.5 million, and a foreign total approaching $200 million.

Jonah Hex flops into seventh, as the Josh Brolin comic book adaptation is dead on arrival. There's nothing for Warner Bros. to be happy about here, as what could have been a successful franchise opens to a nasty $5.1 million. Hex was out to only 2,825 venues, and had an ugly opening weekend venue average of only $1,800. This one has been plagued with problems from the start, with directors dropping out, the studios demanding re-shoots, and more on the set problems. One never knows – this could be a decent movie once the extended cut is released on DVD; however, right now, Jonah Hex is only 15% fresh at RottenTomatoes. The review aggregate site held reviews until Thursday morning, so while Hex wasn't embargoed by the studio, they certainly worked hard to keep the negativity surrounding this one out of the mainstream. The other odd thing about Jonah Hex is the budget information. I've seen the film costing $35 million, $47 million and over $80 million. Which one is correct we will likely never know. What I do know is that Jonah Hex belonged in May where everything flopped – this is good riddance to bad garbage, as this one will likely be gone by next weekend. At least my new friend, Armond White found something to like.

Eighth goes to Lionsgate's Killers, the "comedy" that opened to $15.8 million three weekends ago. After dropping 50% last week, it improved slightly, earning $4.8 million for a dip of 40%. It now has a cume of $39 million, against a $75 million budget that got whittled down to about $40 million.

Ninth is Iron Man 2, which holds on for yet one more weekend in the top ten. The good comic book movie in the top ten earned $2.7 million, a drop of 41% from last weekend. Iron Man 2 has a running domestic total of $304 million, and almost as much in foreign receipts.

Rounding out the top ten this weekend is Marmaduke, a movie that comes off looking like the creature from Splice. The $50 million family comedy that flopped earned $2.6 million and dropped 56%. It has a total so far of $27.9 million.

Overall, the box office is up, up, up. The top 12 this weekend earned a powerful $187.4 million thanks to Toy Story 3 and The Karate Kid, and gives the box office its second-highest three-day total of the year, behind only January 1st-3rd, when Avatar was enjoying its second frame. As mentioned above, the top 12 last year was led by Sandra Bullock and The Proposal, with the top 12 registering $144 million. Next weekend is the Tom Cruise litmus test. Cruise stars in Knight and Day, which opens next weekend against Adam Sandler's Grown Ups. If the press thinks Cruise is a nutball, why don't they interview Rob Schneider?

Top Weekend Box Office for 6/18/10-6/20/10 (Actuals)
Rank	Film	Distributor	Estimated Gross	Actual Gross	Weekly Change	Running Total
1	Toy Story 3	Walt Disney Pictures	$109,000,000	$110,307,189	New	$110,307,189
2	The Karate Kid	Columbia Pictures (Sony)	$28,750,000	$29,876,295	- 46.3%	$107,130,239
3	The A-Team	20th Century Fox	$13,775,000	$14,405,318	- 43.9%	$50,427,588
4	Get Him to The Greek	Universal	$6,117,120	$6,104,810	- 38.6%	$47,844,275
5	Shrek Forever After	DreamWorks	$5,520,000	$5,620,398	- 64.4%	$223,076,925
6	Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time	Walt Disney Pictures	$5,273,000	$5,566,464	- 14.2%	$80,800,574
7	Jonah Hex	Warner Bros.	$5,085,000	$5,379,365	New	$5,379,365
8	Killers	Lionsgate	$4,800,000	$5,035,755	- 37.1%	$39,302,411
9	Iron Man 2	Paramount Pictures, Marvel Studios	$2,675,000	$2,872,252	- 36.5%	$304,210,329
10	Marmaduke	20th Century Fox	$2,650,000	$2,474,195	- 58.8%	$27,711,000
11	Sex and the City 2	New Line Cinema	$2,415,000	$2,411,025	- 55.7%	$90,170,101
12	Robin Hood	Universal Pictures	$1,333,650	$1,422,715	- 45.6%	$102,079,505
	Also Opening/Notables
	Cyrus	Fox Searchlight Pictures	$180,289	$181,716	New	$181,716
	I Am Love	Magnolia	$125,000	$121,504	New	$121,504
	8: the Mormon Proposition	Red Flag	N/A	$42,566	New	$42,566
	Let It Rain	IFC Films	N/A	$16,290	New	$16,290
	Stonewall Uprising	First Run	N/A	$15,729	New	$21,405
	The Killer Inside Me		N/A	$11,083	New	$11,083
	The Nature of Existence	Walking Shadows	N/A	$2,977	New	$2,977
	Winter's Bone	Roadside Attractions	$325,000	$351,316	+314%	$474,328
	Splice	Warner Bros. Pictures	$955,000	$932,470	- 68.3%	$15,569,488
	Solitary Man	Anchor Bay	$420,000	$426,927	+15%	$1,424,993
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Box office data supplied by Exhibitor Relations

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