The walking dead of Zombieland may have taken the weekend box office gold medal, but 3-D animated features took the silver and bronze.
Zombieland lead the weekend by a comfortable margin, earning an estimated $25 million in its first thee days of release.
That put it comfortably ahead of Sony’s Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, which continues to do well in its third weekend of release with a $16.7 million take. That puts the total domestic gross for the 3-D CG-animated movie at about $82 million.
The re-release of Disney-Pixar’s Toy Story and Toy Story 2 as a 3-D double feature came in third place, selling $12.5 million worth of tickets. Together, the Toy Story re-release and Cloudy outgrossed Zombieland.
The weekend’s other new releases were the Ricky Gervais comedy The Invention of Lying, which took in about $7.4 million for fourth place, and the Drew Barrymore-directed roller derby comedy Whip It, which came in sixth place with $4.9 million.
VFX-heavy comic-book adaptation The Surrogates came in fifth place in its second weekend out, taking in $7.4 million for a total of $26.4 million.
Also still in release is the Focus Features animated movie 9, which took in $1.4 million in fourth weekend out. That brings its domestic total to $29.4 million.
