TED MAGIC MIKE BOX OFFICE RECORD – Goodbye Hangover, Hello Ted! The Seth MacFarlane‘s movie debuted to a whooping $54.1 million at the domestic box office becoming the best opening ever for an original R-rated comedy (The Hangover use to hold the record for make $45 million in 2009). Also Ted became Mark Wahlberg‘s second biggest opening behind 2001′s Planet of the Apes.
Channing Tatum couldn’t beat a talking stuffed bear but he could earn $39.2 million stripping in Magic Mike. As the other R-rated movie opening this weekend, the Steven Soderbergh‘s dramedy outperformed experts expectations by a wide margin.
Below are full weekend results for the domestic box office via THR:
Title/Weeks in release/Theater count, Studio/Three-day weekend total/Cume
1. Ted, 1/3,239, Universal/MRC, $54.1 million.
2. Magic Mike, 1/2,930, Warner Bros., $39.2 million.
3. Brave, 2/4,164, Disney/Pixar, $34 million, $131.7 million.
4. Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection, 1/2,161, $26.4 million.
5. Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted, 4/3,715, $11.8 million, $180 million.
6. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, 2/3,100, $6 million, $29 million.
7. Prometheus, 4/1,951, $4.9 million, $118.3 million.
8. Moonrise Kingdom, 6/854, Focus Features, $4.8 million, $18.3 million.
9. Snow White and the Huntsman, 5/2,337, $4.4 million, $145.6 million.
10. People Like Us, 1/2,055, $4.3 million.
