Russell Brand may have stepped up his efforts to break Hollywood this weekend with Get Him To The Greek , but it was Shrek Forever After that won over audiences - for the third consecutive week.
Clearly capitalising on playground word-of-mouth, the fourth ogre outing retained its number one spot at the box office with a further taking of $23m this weekend. Its current total now sits pretty at $181m.
Meanwhile, Marmaduke was left with his tail between his legs as the kids all piled in to the Shrek scrum instead of attending his movie debut – the Owen Wilson voiced mutt bowed with a piffling $11m in sixth.
Iron Man 2 clung on with $7.5m (and a massive $291m total, now where’s Iron Man 3 ?), while sneaking up just behind with $7m was Sundance favourite Splice .
Rounding out the top ten were BO sliders Robin Hood and Letters To Juliet , the former raking in $5m, the latter a tidy $3m.
What did you see this weekend?
