'Cars' Drives Box Office With $60.1M -- Newsday.com

LOS ANGELES -- "Cars," an animated tale about talking autos, revved up the box office with a $60.1 million opening weekend, though it drew in smaller crowds than Disney-Pixar cartoon predecessors.

The movie took in about $10 million less than the previous two recent Disney-Pixar animated flicks, "The Incredibles" and "Finding Nemo," which both opened at slightly more than $70 million.

The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc.:

1. "Cars," Disney, $60,119,509, 3,985 locations, $15,086 average, $60,119,509, one week.

2. "The Break-Up," Universal, $20,325,790, 3,075 locations, $6,610 average, $73,926,040, two weeks.

3. "X-Men: The Last Stand," Fox, $16,078,578, 3,680 locations, $4,369 average, $202,244,652, three weeks.

4. "The Omen," Fox, $16,026,496, 2,723 locations, $5,886 average, $36,301,837, one week.

5. "The Da Vinci Code," Sony, $10,443,347, 3,319 locations, $3,147 average, $189,171,331, four weeks.

6. "Over the Hedge," DreamWorks, $10,221,499, 3,527 locations, $2,898 average, $130,213,521, four weeks.

7. "A Prairie Home Companion," Picturehouse, $4,566,293, 760 locations, $6,008 average, $4,566,293, one week.

8. "Mission: Impossible III," Paramount, $3,020,816, 1,908 locations, $1,583 average, $127,491,115, six weeks.

9. "RV," Sony, $1,910,564, 1,622 locations, $1,178 average, $64,921,678, seven weeks.

10. "Poseidon," Warner Bros., $1,833,493, 1,724 locations, $1,064 average, $54,928,443, five weeks.

11. "An Inconvenient Truth," Paramount Classics, $1,504,701, 122 locations, $12,334 average, $3,983,071, three weeks.

12. "See No Evil," Lionsgate, $984,391, 900 locations, $1,094 average, $14,105,181, four weeks.

13. "The Shaggy Dog," Disney, $832,370, 308 locations, $2,703 average, $59,196,711, 14 weeks.

14. "Stick It," Disney, $448,292, 201 locations, $2,230 average, $25,527,354, seven weeks.

15. "Ice Age: The Meltdown," Fox, $447,867, 431 locations, $1,039 average, $192,237,880, 11 weeks.

16. "Just My Luck," Fox, $419,788, 413 locations, $1,016 average, $16,362,066, five weeks.

17. "Keeping Up With the Steins," Miramax, $331,406, 161 locations, $2,058 average, $3,049,627, five weeks.

18. "Deep Sea 3-D," Warner Bros., $305,869, 45 locations, $6,797 average, $10,954,366, 15 weeks.

19. "The Wild," Disney, $257,389, 145 locations, $1,775 average, $35,692,196, nine weeks.

20. "The Proposition," First Look, $245,188, 78 locations, $3,143 average, $1,017,195, six weeks.

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Universal Pictures and Focus Features are owned by NBC Universal, a joint venture of General Electric Co. and Vivendi Universal; DreamWorks is a unit of DreamWorks SKG Inc.; Sony Pictures, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount and Paramount Classics are divisions of Viacom Inc.; Disney's parent is The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is a division of The Walt Disney Co.; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight Pictures are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros., New Line, Warner Independent and Picturehouse are units of Time Warner Inc.; Lionsgate is owned by Lionsgate Entertainment Corp.; IFC Films is owned by Rainbow Media Holdings, a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corp.

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