Pixar’s Monsters University has stormed the US weekend box office charts.
The animated film, featuring the voice talent of Billy Crystal, John Goodman and Helen Mirren, is a prequel to the highly popular 2001 movie about a pair of monsters who work as professional ‘scarers’.
Pushing last week’s number one movie
Man of Steel off the top,
Monsters University earned a whopping $82m in its debut weekend, the second-biggest opening of any Pixar film.
Brad Pitt’s horror movie World War Z opened in second place with $66m, making it Pitt’s biggest headlining movie debut.
Man of Steel falls to third place earning $41.2m, bringing its overall domestic gross to $210m.
Meanwhile, James Franco’s This is the End slips from second to fourth place with $13m, while Jesse Eisenberg’s Now You See Me falls two spots to number five with $7.87m.
The top ten is rounded out by The Purge, Star Trek Into Darkness and Iron Man 3.
The US weekend box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Monsters University – $82,000,000
2. (-) World War Z – $66,000,000
3. (1) Man of Steel – $41,215,000
4. (2) This is the End – $13,00,000
5. (3) Now You See Me – $7,870,000
6. (4) Fast & Furious 6 – $4,725,000
7. (6) The Internship – $3,425,000
8. (5) The Purge – $3,412,000
9. (8) Star Trek Into Darkness – $3,000,000
10. (10) Iron Man 3 – $2,175,000
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