For the second weekend in a row, "Dr. Seuss' the Lorax" easily tops all movies, beating out the new Edgar Rice Burroughs film "John Carter".
"Lorax" raked in $39.1 million to bring its domestic total to $121.9 million. The 3D family film, featuring the voices of Danny DeVito, Zac Efron and Taylor Swift, is based on Seuss' cautionary fable about the importance of preserving the environment.
"John Carter" opened at #2 with $30.6 million. The film is on creator Burroughs' tales of the interplanetary adventurer. The performance was well under what was expected, given the whopping $250 million that Disney reportedly spent to make it.
The Warner Bros. teen comedy "Project X" fell just one spot in its second weekend, taking #3 with $11.6 million and raise its domestic haul to $40.1 million.
Elizabeth Olsen's horror tale "Silent House," released by Open Road Films, opened modestly at #4 with $7 million. In it, Olsen plays a young woman terrorized inside her family's spooky summer home.
"Act Of Valor" closes out the top #5 with $7 million. After three weekends, it's raked in $56.1 million.
The last wide release this weekend was Eddie Murphy's comedy "A Thousand Words," which was shot in 2008 and finally released to. It landed at #6 with just $6.4 million. It features Murphy as a fast-talking literary agent and neglectful family man who gets a lesson on the important things in life after discovering he has only a thousand words left to utter before he dies.
That's a wrap for this weekend. This upcoming week, look out for the release of big screen adaptation of the TV series "21 Jump Street", starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum.
This weekend's top 10 is as follows:
1. "Dr. Seuss' the Lorax," $39.1 million.
2. "John Carter," $30.6 million.
3. "Project X," $11.6 million.
4. "Silent House," $7.01 million.
5. "Act of Valor," $7 million.
6. "A Thousand Words," $6.4 million.
7. "Safe House," $5 million.
8. "The Vow," $4 million.
9. "This Means War," $3.8 million.
10. "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island," $3.7 million.
