Thor hammers home box office victory

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Thor thundered straight to the top of the US box office this weekend, opening with an impressive haul of $66m.

That’s not a patch on Iron Man 2 ’s $128m opening weekend this time last year, but that superhero sequel already had a built-in audience stoked after the first Iron Man – not to mention it was released in 400 more locations.

Still, it’s a decent opening for the Asgardian – and big enough to knock Fast Five (or Fast And Furious 5: Rio Heist as it’s being called on our shores) out of pole position.

The racing fivequel settled for second with $32m, streets ahead of Jumping The Broom in third, which opened with just $13.7m. Kate Hudson’s latest romcom Something Borrowed fared equally poorly, debuting in fourth ($13.2m), while Rio trailed in fifth ($9.5m).

R-Pattz and Reese Witherspoon’s Water For Elephants continued a steady run in sixth ($5.7m), as did Madea’s Happy Family in seventh ($3.8m), while Prom took eighth position with $2.5m.

Meanwhile, animated sequel Hoodwinked Too! ’s dismal run struggled along with $2.2m (and a shameful total earning of just $7m), while Soul Surfer closed out the top ten with $2.1m.

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.