{"id":6787,"date":"2010-05-30T18:05:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T23:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=6787"},"modified":"2010-05-30T18:05:11","modified_gmt":"2010-05-30T23:05:11","slug":"shrek-beats-sex-and-the-city-2-prince-of-persia-at-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/05\/30\/shrek-beats-sex-and-the-city-2-prince-of-persia-at-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Shrek&#8221; Beats &#8220;Sex and the City 2,&#8221; &#8220;Prince of Persia&#8221; at Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Shrek: The Final Chapter&#8221; predictably picked up the pace Saturday, parlaying its matin\u00e9e performance into a weekend victory over new releases &#8220;Sex and the City 2&#8221; and &#8220;Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:right;margin-left:5px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/default.aspx?term=sex and the city 2&#038;iid=8936764\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/f\/c\/f\/0\/Photo_by_DPAADstarmaxinccom_e555.JPG?adImageId=13046344&#038;imageId=8936764\" width=\"234\" height=\"161\"  border=\"0\" alt=\"Photo by: DP\/AAD\/starmaxinc.com 2010 5\/27\/10 Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, Kim Cat\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.pis.picapp.com\/IamProd\/PicAppPIS\/JavaScript\/PisV4.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With $43.3 million in receipts, &#8220;Shrek&#8221; scored a clear victory yet was far from overwhelming as a top Memorial Day weekend.  The film&#8217;s gross is now at $133.1 million.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sex and the City 2&#8221; pulled $32.1 million en route to a total of $46.3 million since Thursday&#8217;s opening.  The film will need a miracle on Monday to live up to even the most conservative estimates for the five day opening weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Prince of Persia&#8221; opened soft in comparison to its massive budget, but it is not as if analysts were expecting significantly more than the $30.2 million that it grossed this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><B>Weekend Top Ten:<\/b><br \/>\n1)   Shrek the Final Chapter &#8211; $43.3 million ($133.1 million)<br \/>\n2)   Sex and the City 2 &#8211; $32.1 million ($46.3 million)<br \/>\n3)   Prince of Persia &#8211; $30.2 million<br \/>\n4)   Iron Man 2 &#8211; $16.0 million ($274.6 million)<br \/>\n5)   Robin Hood &#8211; $10.3 million ($83 million)<br \/>\n6)   Letters to Juliet &#8211; $5.9 million ($36.6 million)<br \/>\n7)   Just Wright &#8211; $2.2 million ($18.2 million)<br \/>\n8)   Date Night &#8211; $1.8 million ($93.4 million)<br \/>\n9)   MacGruber &#8211; $1.5 million ($7.1 million)<br \/>\n10) How to Train Your Dragon &#8211; $1 million ($212.6 million)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Shrek&quot; 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