Shrek Forever After tops US box office with $71m debut

Shrek Forever After tops US box office with $71m debut
Shrek Forever After tops US box office with $71m debut

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Monday, 24, May 2010 06:33

By Lewis Bazley.

The fourth film in the Shrek franchise has claimed the number one spot at the US box office after its first weekend on release, it has been confirmed.

Shrek Forever After, likely to be the final instalment in the Dreamworks series about an irascible green ogre, took an estimated $71 million to claim the number one spot in the US box office charts.

The animated film, also released in 3D, had an opening haul far lower than the previous Shrek films, with Shrek 3 achieving a debut weekend worth $121 million.

Last week's number one film, Iron Man 2, dropped to second after Shrek Forever After's debut, with Robin Hood, Letters to Juliet and Just Wright.

Spoof action film Macgruber - based on the Saturday Night Live character - debuted in sixth with a middling $4.1 million while Bollywood effort Kites took $952,682 in its first weekend on release to sneak into the top ten.

The top ten films at the US box office are: (last week's position)

1 Shrek Forever After (-)

2 Iron Man 2 (1)

3 Robin Hood (2)

4 Letters to Juliet (3)

5 Just Wright (4)

6 Macgruber (-)

7 Date Night (7)

8 A Nightmare on Elm Street (6)

9 How to Train Your Dragon (5)

10 Kites (-)

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