LOS ANGELES, April 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rentrak Corporation , today announced the weekend theatrical box office numbers for the weekend period of April 16 through April 18, 2010 according to the company's Box Office Essentials(TM) theatrical box office data collection and analytical service.
The twelve estimated top producing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, April 18, 2010 include:
Weekend Rank Title Distributor Gross Cume Locations How To Train 1 Your Dragon Paramount $20,000,000 $158,617,746 3825 (NYSE: VIA; VIA.B) 2 Kick Ass Lionsgate $19,750,000 $19,750,000 3065 20th Century Fox 3 Date Night $17,300,000 $49,246,761 3380 Death At A 4 Funeral Sony $17,000,000 $17,000,000 2459 Clash Of The 5 Titans Warner Bros. $15,770,000 $132,984,729 3753 6 Last Song, The Disney $5,788,000 $50,012,939 2767 Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get 7 Married Too Lionsgate $4,180,000 $54,882,914 1859 Hot Tub Time 8 Machine MGM $3,545,000 $42,504,464 2308 Alice In 9 Wonderland Disney $3,540,000 $324,014,859 2024 The Bounty 10 Hunter Sony $3,200,000 $60,377,868 2475 Diary Of A 20th Century Fox 11 Wimpy Kid $2,800,000 $57,100,144 2149 20th Century Fox 12 Avatar $1,025,000 $745,045,453 500 Weekend of 4/16/10 to 4/18/10
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