The Weekend Box Office: 'Despicable Me' Rises to The Top

Filed under: General Electric (GE), Walt Disney (DIS), News Corp'B' (NWS)

General Electric Company's (GE) Universal Pictures scored this past weekend at domestic theaters. According to early estimates available at the time of this writing from Box Office Mojo, the new computer-designed cartoon, Despicable Me, grossed $60 million, placing it in the top spot. Not a bad opening. It rose above vampire phenomenon The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, which came in second. That film, distributed by Summit Entertainment, made over $30 million, and has now taken in better than $230 million in total. An awesome number. One gets the feeling at this point that surpassing The Twilight Saga: New Moon's ultimate tally of $296 million is possible.

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