Bruno cracked Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs to top this weekend’s box office.
The Universal Studios comedy, in which Sacha Baron Cohen reprises the role of the gay Austrian fashion journalist from Da Ali G Show, took in $30 million in its first three days of release.
Ice Age, the third film in the series and the first to be released in 3-D, came in second place with $28.5 million, lifting its domestic total past $120 million. Variety reports that the film has been especially strong overseas, grossing more than $190 million through last Wednesday in 101 territories. The film’s success made 20th Century Fox the first studio to gross more than $1 billion in overseas markets this year.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the Michael Bay-directed sequel, pulled in$24.2 million this weekend and remains the year’s biggest film with a domestic gross of more than $339 million.
Public Enemies took fourth place with $14 million this weekend, followed by the comedy The Proposal with $10.5 million, The Hangover at $9.9 million, newcomer I Love You, Beth Cooper at $5 million.
Pixar-Disney’s animated feature Up came in eighth-place this weekend, grossing $4.6 million. It’s domestic gross of more than $273 million is second this year only to Transformers and ahead of Star Trek‘s $251 million and The Hangover‘s $222 million.
The box office gets another big release this week, with the opening Wednesday of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth film in the smash-hit franchise.
