Dragons give the competition a beating

Well, to a certain degree that is. DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon reigns supreme for yet another weekend as it takes in $15 Million. Your probably thinking okay, so does that mean that there wasn’t really any sort of competition this weekend for the animated fantasy? That’s where your dead wrong, because there were three wide releases (technically two since DisneyNature’s Oceans was released on Thursday) this Friday that were plenty of competition for the film.

Apparently there were quite a few people aching to see Jennifer Lopez back on the big screen CBS Films’ The Back-up Plan ended it’s first weekend in the comfortable second place with $12.2 Million. Unfortunately not much can be said about the some-what underperforming comic book adapted feature The Losers, ending it’s first weekend with $9.6 Million in it’s pocket in fourth. Last but not least is the previously mentioned DisneyNature’s Oceans, wrangling in $6 Million for it’s first weekend. Continue reading on to check out the rest of the totals from Box Office Mojo.:

Weekend Box Office (April 23-25)

1. How to Train Your Dragon  ($15 M)
2. The Back-Up Plan  ($12.2 M)
3. Date Night  ($10.6 M)
4. The Losers  ($9.6 M)
5. Kick-Ass  ($9.5 M)
6. Clash of the Titans  ($9 M)
7. Death at a Funeral  ($8 M)
8. Oceans  ($6 M)
9. The Last Song  ($3.7 M)
10. Alice in Wonderland  ($2.2 M)

It’s the last week of April, and were inches away from the summer season. That means that the highly anticipated horror remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street is coming out this Friday in theaters everywhere along with the Brendan Fraser starring picture Furry Vengeance. Among those on the limited release track that weekend for release is Mercy, The Good Heart, Harry Brown and a NY release of The Human Centipede which opens in limited release on May 7th.