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Pixar’s acclaimed Toy Story 3](http://www.cinematical.com/2010/06/17/review-toy-story-3/) survived an onslaught of mass appeal to stay on top for a second straight week, beating out both Adam Sandler’s Grown Ups and the Tom Cruise/Cameron Diaz action comedy Knight and Day. The animated film’s $59 million second weekend – a 46% drop, very strong for a movie that opened so huge – suggests that Toy Story 3 may become the studio’s highest-grossing release ever, eventually topping *Finding Nemo’s *$340 million total. It’s at $225 million already, after two weeks.
I don’t have much to say about Grown Ups](http://www.cinematical.com/2010/06/25/grown-ups-review/)’ $41 million, second place opening, rather than to suggest that it’s a little bit sad. It’s very typical, perhaps a bit above-average for a mainstream Adam Sandler film. If it holds up, $150 million is not out of the question; $120 seems almost assured.
The $20 million 3-day number for Knight & Day](http://www.cinematical.com/2010/06/23/knight-and-day-review) is a bit mysterious. That number isn’t too far beyond the $15 million opening for Killers](http://www.cinematical.com/2010/06/04/killers-review/), which had a similar theme but nowhere near the star wattage. Given the presence of Cruise and Diaz, the many rollicking action scenes from which to cut a trailer, and the fact that the movie’s actually pretty damn good, I’d call this a whiff for Fox. Tom Cruise delivered a stronger opening for Valkyrie](Valkyrie (2008) - Movie | Moviefone), for pete’s sake. (I note for the record that the movie’s actually made $27 million since its Wednesday opening – but I don’t think that really helps matters.)
More, plus the top 10, after the jump.
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