Giant scorpions and winged horses ruled the box office Sunday, as "Clash of the Titans" topped North American movie ticket sales, according to weekend estimates. Warner Bros' US$122 million retelling of the Perseus legendary earned US$61.4 million in its first weekend, according to box office tracker Exhibitor Relations.
In second place was the African-American melodrama "Why Did I Get Married Too?" by writer, director, and actor Tyler Perry, with US$30.2 million in receipts. The animated adventure "How to Train Your Dragon" was in third place, pulling in US$29.2 million, while the debut of the romantic Miley Cyrus movie, "The Last Song," was fourth with US$16.2 million.
Fifth place went to the live-action version of Lewis Carroll's children's classic "Alice in Wonderland" starring Johnny Depp including US$8.3 million this weekend. The 3-D wizardry kept time-bending jacuzzi users at bay, with the R-rated comedy "Hot Tub Time Machine" earning US$8 million for sixth place. That put it ahead of "Bounty Hunter," a comedy starring Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler, which came in seventh with a US$6.2 million take, and "Diary of a Wimpy Kid," slipped three places to eighth place with US$5.5 million.
Ninth place went to the romantic comedy "She's Out of My League," in which a stunning beautiful woman and a dorky guy fall improbably in love, which earned US$1.46 million this weekend.
It came just ahead of Martin Scorsese's "Shutter Island" which was in 10th place, which also earned US$1.46 million.
