January 30, 2013 at 5:54 p.m.
Pirates adds $62 million to plunder
A week after Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow and his friends scored the biggest opening in Hollywood history, Pirates came back this weekend for another $62.2 million — already making it the year's top-grossing film.
Pirates, which also stars Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom, passed the $200 million mark on its eighth day, the fastest ever for a movie. After 10 days it has earned $258.2 million, and by next weekend it is expected to approach the $305 million notched by the first Pirates in 2003.
The year's previous top-earner, X-Men: The Last Stand, has taken in $232 million in eight weeks.
The weekend's two new movies — both comedies — made respectable showings.
Little Man, about a petite con man, finished second with $21.7 million. Close behind was You, Me and Dupree, which stars Owen Wilson as a man who moves in with his newlywed friends, and earned $21.3 million.
Superman Returns was fourth, followed by The Devil Wears Prada, the Meryl Streep film that has already earned $83.6 million on a $35 million budget.
Despite Pirates, the top 12 movies earned slightly less this weekend than they did on the same weekend a year ago — the first time in two months that's happened.
So far this year, box-office receipts are $5.22 billion, compared with $4.89 billion at this time last year. n[[In-content Ad]]
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