{"id":396143,"date":"2011-04-25T10:04:42","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T10:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/25\/rio-film-still-flying-high-in-us\/"},"modified":"2011-04-25T10:04:42","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T10:04:42","slug":"rio-film-still-flying-high-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/25\/rio-film-still-flying-high-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Rio film still flying high in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"90.118251928\"><span><span>25 April 2011<\/span> <span>Last updated at<\/span> <span>06:04 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Animated film Rio has beaten Tyler Perry&#8217;s new film and a circus romance starring Robert Pattinson to stay top of the North American box office.<\/p>\n<p>Rio, featuring the voices of Jesse Eisenberg and Anne Hathaway, took $26.8m (\u00a316.2m) on it second weekend, according to studio estimates.<\/p>\n<p>Perry film Madea&#8217;s Big Happy Family, was at two with $25.8m (\u00a315.6m).<\/p>\n<p>Water for Elephants, starring Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon, opened in third with $17.5m (\u00a310.6m).<\/p>\n<p>In the film, Pattinson stars as a vet who joins a travelling circus and falls in love with its star performer.<\/p>\n<p>Madea&#8217;s Big Happy Family &#8211; in which Perry stars as a a grandmother who pulls her clan together in a crisis &#8211; narrowly failed to knock Rio, a film about a stolen macaw, off the top spot.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-13185403#story_continues_2\">Continue reading the main story<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>NORTH AMERICAN BOX OFFICE<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1.<\/strong> Rio &#8211; $26.8m<\/li>\n<li><strong>2.<\/strong> Tyler Perry&#8217;s Madea&#8217;s Big Happy Family &#8211; $25.8m<\/li>\n<li><strong>3.<\/strong> Water for Elephants &#8211; $17.5m<\/li>\n<li><strong>4.<\/strong> Hop &#8211; $12.5m<\/li>\n<li><strong>5.<\/strong> Scream 4 &#8211; $7.2m<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Source: Hollywood.com<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Prolific Perry, who last month won prizes including best director at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People&#8217;s Image Awards, also wrote and directed the film.<\/p>\n<p>Other new releases to appear in the US and Canada box office top 10 include Disney nature documentary African Cats, which opened at number six with $6.4m (\u00a33.9m).<\/p>\n<p>Overall, box office revenue &#8211; which totalled $138m (\u00a383.5m) &#8211; was up on last year for a second weekend running.<\/p>\n<p>Next weekend, takings are also expected to be up on last year when the latest action movie in the Fast and the Furious franchise, Fast Five, is released.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we&#8217;re going to have three up weekends in a row, and for us, that&#8217;s a roll,&#8221; said Paul Dergarabedian, of box office tracker Hollywood.com.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been down for so long &#8211; it really points out how cyclical this business is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Before last weekend, box office takings had been in general decline since the autumn.<\/p>\n<p>Super Size Me documentary maker Morgan Spurlock&#8217;s latest offering, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, failed to make the top 10.<\/p>\n<p>The product-placement documentary took $135,139 (\u00a381,700) in its opening weekend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/entertainment-arts-13185403\" title=\"Rio film still flying high in US\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rio film still flying high in US<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 25 April 2011 Last updated at 06:04 ET Animated film Rio has beaten Tyler Perry&#8217;s new film and a circus romance starring Robert Pattinson to stay top of the North American box office. Rio, featuring the voices of Jesse Eisenberg and Anne Hathaway, took $26.8m (\u00a316.2m) on it second weekend, according to studio estimates. Perry film Madea&#8217;s Big Happy Family, was at two with $25.8m (\u00a315.6m)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":396144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-396143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rio film still flying high in US - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/25\/rio-film-still-flying-high-in-us\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Rio film still flying high in US - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"25 April 2011 Last updated at 06:04 ET Animated film Rio has beaten Tyler Perry&#039;s new film and a circus romance starring Robert Pattinson to stay top of the North American box office. 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