Not surprisingly, G-Rated Wall E edged out R-Rated Wanted for the top spot at the box office this weekend. Having seen it, I can report that it’s both a great movie and a good place to pick up elementary school chicks.
WALL-E," the Pixar Animation tale of a robot toiling away on a long-abandoned Earth, debuted as the No. 1 movie with $62.5 million in ticket sales, with Jolie’s assassin thriller "Wanted" opening in second place with $51.1 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The two movies combined to keep Hollywood on a roll. The top 12 movies took in $179.2 million, up 22 percent from the same weekend last year, when Pixar’s "Ratouille" opened with $47 million. It was the fifth straight weekend that revenues climbed. [CNN]
Meanwhile, The Love Guru grossed $5.4 million in its second weekend (coming in at number 6). Its $19 million dollar cumulative take is just a few dollars shy of earning back Mike Myer’s budget for silly wigs. (full top ten after the jump)
1. "WALL-E," $62.5 million.
2. "Wanted," $51.1 million.
3. "Get Smart," $20 million.
4. "Kung Fu Panda," $11.7 million.
5. "The Incredible Hulk," $9.2 million.
6. "The Love Guru," $5.4 million.
7. "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," $5 million.
8. "The Happening," $3.9 million.
9. "Sex and the City," $3.8 million.
10. "You Don’t Mess With the Zohan," $3.2 million.

I only saw Wanted this weekend. The theater was maybe half full. It was Gay Pride weekend though and I did see it in Chelsea sooooo I’m going to assume everyone was at Wall-E. Doing it in the butt.
Wanted was kinda good. The most unbelievable part was Jolie eating. McAvoy was actually pretty cute, you just know if you made out though that he would drool on you. So that’s hot.
Is "silly wigs" code for "butt plugs"?
We had a little Wanted action going on this weekend. My baby made strange faces and shot projectile poop at us. It curved.
Wanted did a lot better than I thought it would.
I thought Wanted was great until my roommate reminded me that James McAvoy was the pedophile goat boy in Narnia. I still think Wanted was great, I just will continue to think McAvoy is a child molester.
It’s about time they made a movie about a cube worker in a dead end job that discovers he wasn’t meant for that life and is destined for great things, that are in no way ever possible in real life.
"Yes, yes…let the peons believe they’re not slaves to the machine! MUAHAHAHHAHA!!!"
This would explain why
my tricksome guy this weekend tried to hand me a five-dollar bill with Buzz Lightyear on it.The office meltdown scene should be awesome to anyone who has ever worked in a cubicle.
I was going to go see "Wanted" over the weekend, but instead i bought a 4 pack dvd collection of Bridget the Midget’s stuff for $15 and just stayed in.
The office meltdown scene WAS pretty awesome.
I liked the movie. I mean, it wasn’t rooted in reality all that much, but that’s why it’s a MOVIE.
You want reality? Go watch National Geographic.
Regarding the banner pic, I think the newest Filmdrunk recurring character should be: Assimo the hentai loving robot…you know, because he’s Japanese.
Pish posh. National Geographic is fixed. A lion can’t really catch a gazelle like that.
You want
realitypancake African titties? Go watch National Geographic.New up with five times more head.
Burnsy-
Yeah, that too. I forgot about the pancake African titties…
You want reality, check out Living Lohan. The vomit that show will generate is as real as it gets.
Sloan: Someone get these muthafuckin assassins outta my muthafuckin FRATERNITY!
Wanted sucked.