Box Office: 'Ice Age' tops 'Amazing Spider-Man' with $16.5 million Friday

'Ted' and 'Magic Mike' continue to impress

By Dave Lewis Saturday, Jul 14, 2012 1:28 PM

'Ice Age: Continental Drift'

Credit: 20th Century Fox

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With much of the U.S. going through one of the hottest summers on record, audiences were craving another "Ice Age"

Fox's animated sequel "Ice Age: Continental Drift" is off to a great start, racking up a cool $16.5 million at the domestic box office on Friday. That will likely put the film -- featuring the voices of Ray Romano, Denis Leary and others -- in the $45 million range for the weekend.

That will put it on par with the first "Ice Age," which opened to $46.3 million in 2002 (without the benefit of 3D ticket prices). 2006's "Ice Age: The Meltdown" opened to a stellar $68 million, while 2009's "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" opened to the more-in-line $41 million.

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Meanwhile, "Amazing Spider-Man" dropped to No. 2 with another $10.3 million. The Sony reboot has so far earned an impressive $176 million. Its big box office days are numbered, however, as WB's mega sequel "The Dark Knight Rises" opens next Friday. While "Amazing" will certainly pass the $200 million mark at home, it likely won't earn as much as the previous "Spider-Man" pictures.

Seth McFarlane's raunchy comedy "Ted" continues to impress, earning another $6.9 million, for a domestic total of $143.7 million.

This summer's other surprise hit, Channing Tatum's "Magic Mike," likewise continues it success story, scoring another $3.4 million. The Steven Soderbergh-directed male stripper drama has made a hunky $86.2 million so far.

Disney's animated hit "Brave" rounds out the top five, adding $3.2 million to its domestic gross of $188.1 million.

Look for complete weekend estimates tomorrow on HitFix.

Dave Lewis
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Dave Lewis has been a Los Angeles-based entertainment writer and editor for nearly ten years. Originally hailing from Minneapolis, he moved to L.A. in 1996 to attend USC, before working for various periodicals and web sites including a lengthy stint at Variety.com. He joined the HitFix staff in 2011.

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joe

So the Amazing Spiderman could be the lowest grossing of the four films, and it's still considered a success? How is that possible?
July 14, 2012 at 2:06PM EST Reply to Comment
- arrow It was cheaper to make. There was also lower expectations because it was a reboot.
  
  July 14, 2012 at 3:49PM EST
- def Sometimes it's okay to simply make money, rather than a record amount of it.
  July 14, 2012 at 5:49PM EST
- BrainTrust Rebooting a franchise so soon was a big question mark for many people in the industry. It's somewhat similar to how X-Men: First Class didn't even make as much as the very first X-Men movie; however, many people regarded that film as successful because: (i) it made 'enough' money despite how poorly audiences responded to the prior two entries (Wolverine/X3), and (ii) audiences/critics generally responded quite favorable to it, which puts the franchise back on track.
  July 15, 2012 at 12:23AM EST
Max

People would rather see generic sellout crap they have seen so many times than something like Moonrise Kingdom
July 14, 2012 at 2:15PM EST Reply to Comment
- Bloody Phantasm Ummm... Moonrise Kingdom has been doing fantastic in its limited release run and has had an incredible per-theater-average. It has already made raked in double its budget.
  July 15, 2012 at 12:40AM EST

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Box Office: 'Ice Age' tops 'Amazing Spider-Man' with $16.5 million Friday