Dr. Seuss the Lorax has definitely beaten Edgar Rice Burroughs John Carter

Dr. Seuss' the Lorax" has definitely beaten Edgar Rice Burroughs' "John Carter" on the weekend box work.

Studio estimates Sunday plunk Universal Pictures' "The Lorax" on No. 1 pro the second-straight weekend as the animated adventure based on the children's hardback took in $39.1 million. That raised its 10-day domestic unmitigated to $122 million, making "The Lorax" the top-grossing motion picture released this day.

"John mover," based on "Tarzan" creator Burroughs' tales of the interplanetary trailblazer, opened in second-place with $30.6 million. That's an awful start particular the whopping $250 million to facilitate Disney so they say spent to prepare "John mover," which furthermore earned in general poor reviews to facilitate will hurt its long-term prospects.

The movie's salvation can show your face overseas, wherever "John Carter" opened in 55 markets with $70.6 million, giving it a worldwide unmitigated of $101.2 million.

The stronger international contract helps, but to facilitate worldwide unmitigated still pales compared to comprehensive debuts of $200 million and up pro many enlightened blockbusters.

"We would assert hoped in favor of more making an allowance for the superior economics of the film but are still encouraged with how it's been customary by audiences so as to assert seen it and hope to notice so as to generate convinced word of talk in favor of the balance of the run," understood Dave Hollis, Disney's head of distribution.

 

The Warner Bros. Teenager comedy "Project X" held up well in its next weekend with $11.6 million to close on No. 3 and raise its domestic haul to $40.1 million.

Elizabeth Olsen's horror tale "Silent House," released by Open Road Films, opened discreetly on No. 4 with $7 million. Olsen show business an undeveloped woman terrorized inside her family's spooky summer residence.

Eddie Murphy's comedy "A Thousand Words," a leftover shot in 2008 and to finish dumped into theaters by distributor Paramount, was a letdown on No. 6 with precisely $6.4 million.

The motion picture skin Murphy as a fast-talking literary agent and neglectful relations man who gets a lesson on the central things in life bearing in mind discovering he has single a thousand terminology absent to utter prior to he dies.

"A Thousand Words" was so bad it had a just what the doctor ordered groove on the film critic locate Rottentomatoes.Com: All of the 37 reviews compiled at hand pro the motion picture were unconstructive.

"John Carter" on slightest managed 49 percent favorable notices of the 170 reviews compiled at hand. That's still not a recipe pro staying power on the box work, particularly with such a bad opening in the United States.

"If you precisely take the domestic total, it's not a very pretty picture," supposed Paul Dergarabedian, analyst pro box-office chaser Hollywood.Com. "But if you look on the worldwide opening weekend of a hundred million dollars, that's pretty solid."

"John Carter" casts Taylor Kitsch, co-star of the lofty discipline football small screen string "Friday Night Lights," in the title role as a 19th century Civil War veteran whisked away to Mars, wherever he waterfall pro a beautiful princess and becomes a hero in the red planet's own civil war.

Disney executives well-known to facilitate the motion picture had a 25 percent uptick in domestic contract from opening generation Friday to Saturday, motto it was a sign to facilitate audiences were discussion up "John Carter" to associates.

But the motion picture drew single 41 percent of its viewers from the under-25 crowd, indicating to facilitate Hollywood's strategic audience of undeveloped conflict fans was not interested.

Overall domestic contract rose again as studios continued their 2012 box-office roll. Revenues totaled $140.5 million, up 8.7 percent from the same weekend most recent day, according to Hollywood.Com.

Receipts give rise to climb all weekend this day, with domestic revenues inching greater than $2 billion so far in 2012, an 18 percent escalation larger than most recent year's.

Estimated ticket sales pro Friday through Sunday on U.S. And Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.Com. Where free, up-to-the-minute international figures are furthermore built-in. Final domestic information will be released Monday.