Weekend Receipts: Toy Is Tops Again

Perhaps it's just my bleeding-heart, Catholic nature, but I tend to feel at least a pang of sympathy for even the most despicable of subjects. So I actually feel a bit bad for both Grown-Ups and Knight and Day. I mean, sure, they're both lazy variations of genre films that already have been ground into dull, formulaic powder, but you have to feel just a smidge bad that they brought their already-crappy game against the dynamic, heartfelt Toy Story 3, surely one of the best movies of the year. And once again, it was Toy Story 3 that ruled the box office roost, while Adam Sandler and company pulled in a respectable second place, and Tom Cruise thanked the floating celestial ghost of L. Ron Hubbard that he didn't completely eat it at third. Grab your commemorative Knight and Day travel pillow and click on for the hard numbers.

1. Toy Story 3

Gross: $59,000,000 ($226,552,000)

Screens: 4,028 (PSA: $14,647)

Weeks: 1 (change: -46.5%)

I feel like I've rubbed enough sugar on Toy Story 3 that I can be allowed to sass-talk it a little bit. For those who haven't seen it, you should check out Ruben Bolling's take on "Cormac McCarthy's Toy Story 3." Frankly, I think cannibal scavengers could have only improved the last Shrek flick.

2. Grown-Ups

Gross: $41,000,000 (new)

Screens: 3,534 (PSA: $11,602)

Weeks: new

Allow me a little confession: I have never, ever gotten the appeal of Adam Sandler. I didn't like his early stuff like Happy Gilmore, I didn't like his strained attempts at serious acting like Punch-Drunk Love, and I don't like his fat-and-lazy phase like Click. So when people complain about his new stuff being juvenile and derivative, I want to ask, where were you ten years ago? We could have strangled Adam Sandler's film career in the crib!

3. Knight and Day

Gross: $20,500,000 ($27,789,000)

Screens: 3,098 (PSA: $6,617)

Weeks: new

Congratulations, Tom Cruise! One of the biggest action stars of all-time, paired with one of the most popular comedic actresses of all times in a big, loud summerific summer movie could only make half of the opening gross of a movie populated by a passel of chunky, past their prime comedians (and Chris Rock!), whose main selling point in the commercial is that they pissed the pool. Well done, Thomas! Drinks all around.

4. The Karate Kid

Gross: $15,400,000($135,641,000)

Screens: 3,740 (PSA: $4,118)

Weeks: 3 (change: -48.5%)

Jaden Smith's career appears to be one of endless success and boundless good fortune. But keep a good head on your shoulders Jaden, lest you find yourself playing the lead role in a John Holmes biopic 15 years from now.

5. The A-Team

Gross: $6,000,000 ($62,843,000)

Screens: 3,242 (PSA: $1,851)

Weeks: 3 (change: -58.3%)

Just to keep to the theme, let's take a minute to pity poor 'ol A-Team. There was 80s nostalgia money to be made, guys, but not for you. If only you had cast Jaden as B.A. Baracus, this could be a different story all together.

[Numbers via Box Office Mojo]