Madagascar 3 rules box office with $60.4M opening

Mada­gas­car 3: Europe’s Most Wanted

Lead­ing a hugely suc­cess­ful North Amer­i­can box office, Dream­Works Animation’s Mada­gas­car 3: Europe’s Most Wanted opened with $60.4 mil­lion over the weekend.

Not far behind was Rid­ley Scott’s live-action alien tale Prometheus, which debuted at $50 million.

Mada­gas­car 3 led among fam­ily audi­ences. Voice actors Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Jada Pin­kett Smith and David Schwim­mer were heard again as zoo ani­mals who join a cir­cus, con­tin­u­ing their travels.

Prometheus, from 20th Cen­tury Fox, over­came its R rat­ing, which can cut into busi­ness. Movie­go­ers under 17 must see it with an adult.

In Prometheus, Noomi Rapace, Michael Fass­ben­der and Char­l­ize Theron star in a remake of Scott’s 1979 science-fiction hor­ror story Alien.

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