Iron Man 2 jets into first place

Robert Downey Jr’s second round suiting and booting it as Tony Stark slash Iron Man sped straight to the top of the box office this weekend.

Despite lukewarm reviews both sides of the pond, superhero sequel Iron Man 2 took $133.6m - the fifth highest take ever - during its opening weekend, easily trumping the first flick’s opening trawl of $98m. Is that an Iron Man 3 we spy on the horizon?

The rest of the top ten? Brendan Fraser’s laugh-a-minute* Furry Vengeance slipped by 39% to sixth with $4m, while Clash Of The Titans proved immovable as an Olympian God's hair 'do in seventh place with $2.3m (a drop of 60%).

Finally, Death At A Funeral (above) went up a spot from ninth to eighth with $2.1m, The Losers slipped from sixth to ninth with a disappointing $1.8m (that’s a total of $21m in three weeks; bye-bye franchise), and new player Babies entered at tenth with a meagre $1.5m.

(Though, give it its due, Babies only opened on 534 screens, as opposed to Iron Man ’s 4,380.)

This Friday, Russell Crowe will pinch and punch things in Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood . Can he pilfer the top spot from Iron Man 2 ? We bet it all depends on the Cannes buzz, the festival which Hood will be opening on Wednesday…

* For all the wrong reasons

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Josh Winning has worn a lot of hats over the years. Contributing Editor at Total Film, writer for SFX, and senior film writer at the Radio Times. Josh has also penned a novel about mysteries and monsters, is the co-host of a movie podcast, and has a library of pretty phenomenal stories from visiting some of the biggest TV and film sets in the world. He would also like you to know that he "lives for cat videos..." Don't we all, Josh. Don't we all.