Weekend Box Office Update

2011/07/03 17:48:51 +00:00 | Jonathan James

Transformers: Dark of the Moon easily won the weekend and broke the 4th of July holiday record, earning $97.4 million. Since its limited opening on Tuesday, Dark of the Moon has earned $116 million domestically.

Larry Crowne opened this weekend to a disappointing $13 million, despite Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts starring.

Next week's big releases are Zookeeper and Horrible Bosses, along with a limited release of John Carpenter's The Ward. Here are the top 10 movies for this weekend:

1   Transformers: Dark of the Moon - $97,400,000
2   Cars 2 - $25,112,000
3   Bad Teacher - $14,100,000
4   Larry Crowne - $13,007,000
5   Monte Carlo - $7,600,000
6   Super 8 - $7,500,000
7   Green Lantern - $6,270,000
8   Mr. Popper's Penguins - $5,100,000
9   Bridesmaids - $3,521,000
10  Midnight in Paris - $3,438,000

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