The Karate Kid kicks its way into first

It looks like all the publicity paid off for the Columbia Pictures film The Karate Kid as it high-kicked its way into first place in it’s opening weekend. The Harald Zwart directed film scooped up $56 Million, proving that if you’ve even got a familiar title from a film much beloved by the general public, they’ll want to watch it like crazy. However, things aren’t looking good for Joe Carnahan directed feature The A-Team. The eighties television show turned feature length film didn’t catch on too well, only making $26 Million on it’s first weekend. That’s still a long ways to go in order to make back the hefty $110 Million dollar budget back.

Shrek Forever After (or Shrek The Final Chapter) continues to make profitable waves with it’s overall domestic gross being $210 Million. Given the fact that there’s a heavy amount of inflation going on especially with 3D, it’s not really much of a surprise that it made that kind of money. Splice continues to quickly sink, only making $13 Million total. It proves once more that people sometimes can’t handle character driven genre pictures, particularly of the sci-fi kind. Check out the remainder of the top ten below from Box Office Mojo.:

Weekend Box Office (June 11-13)

1. The Karate Kid  ($56 M)
2. The A-Team  ($26 M)
3. Shrek Forever After  ($15.8 M)
4. Get Him to the Greek  ($10.1 M)
5. Killers  ($8.1 M)
6. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time  ($6.6 M)
7. Marmaduke  ($6 M)
8. Sex and the City 2  ($5.5 M)
9. Iron Man 2  ($4.5 M)
10. Splice  ($2.8 M)

It’s time for the typical summer Pixar wave with the theatrical 2D and 3D release of Toy Story 3. Along with that is the wide release of the upcoming comic book film Jonah Hex. Those within the limited realm this upcoming weekend include 8: The Mormon Proposition, The Killer Inside Me and Raavan.