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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [Richard Corliss](https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/) Aug 8, 2010 4:00 AM UTC  Will Ferrell, left, and Mark Wahlberg in The Other Guys Will Ferrell, left, and Mark Wahlberg in The Other Guys Macall Polay by [Richard Corliss](https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/) Aug 8, 2010 4:00 AM UTC After fighting off superspy Angelina Jolie and superschmuck Steve Carell, Leonardo DiCaprio and his team of sleep snoopers finally got knocked off by some other guys. Make that _the_ other guys. Will Ferrell, the good dude, and Mark Wahlberg, the action guy, teamed up for an O.K. buddy-cop comedy that wrested _Inception_ from its perch as king of the North American box office after three weeks at No. 1\. According to early studio estimates, _The Other Guys_ will have earned $34.6 million in its first three days. That’s a career second best for Ferrell. And while the tally is considerably below that of the $47 million opening his race-car comedy _Talladega Nights_ earned in 2006, it’s more than Ferrell’s basketball movie _Semi-Pro_ took in over its entire theatrical run and a big step up from the $18.8 million opening of last year’s ultra-expensive _Land of the Lost_, which limped to a $49.4 million total. With the star jettisoning his Wild Will persona for the drolly demure role of a “forensic accountant,” _The Other Guys_ proved that Ferrell could play less manic and still entice the young-male demographic. [(See TIME’s review of _The Other Guys_.)](https://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2008874,00.html) Christopher Nolan need not cry in his beer over _Inception_‘s demotion to the No. 2 spot. The writer-director can still sip champagne as he sees his movie soar to $277.7 million in its first 24 days in domestic theaters, plus another quarter-billion dollars abroad. That’s good news for Warner Bros. and other investors who ponied up the film’s $160 million budget and for creative types who want to dream big and smart in the fantasy-action genre. Calling Robert Zemeckis, David Lynch and the Wachowskis: Get your most ambitious projects green-lit now, before the _Inception_ glow fades. The dance-athon threequel _Step Up 3D_, the other new film in wide release, cadged a club-footed $15.5 this weekend, the lowest gross for any of the _Step Up_ films, despite playing in 3-D theaters with a hefty ticket surcharge. Jolie’s _Salt_ held well, finishing in fourth place, just ahead of Carell’s _Dinner for Schmucks_, which dropped 55% from its opening weekend in the face of competition from Ferrell, another popular farceur. _Despicable Me_, riding on critical acclaim and the propensity for kids to keep coming back to their favorite animated features, passed the $200 million domestic mark on a pinchpenny $69 million budget. It has yet to play in most foreign markets. [(See the top 10 movie bromances.)](https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1886693%5F1886714,00.html) Indie-wise, _The Kids Are All Right_ expanded to 994 screens, from 847 last week, but saw a 26% drop in its weekend gross. With a $2.6 million take, the post-nuclear-family comedy is now at about $14 million. No _Little Miss Sunshine_, this. _Winter’s Bone_, an indie drama with more modest aspirations, is playing in 141 theaters; its $290,750 weekend take brings its total earnings to nearly $4.5 million. Next weekend in _The Expendables_, a half-dozen overage alpha males, including Sly Stallone, Dolph Lundgren and Jet Li, will face off against archetypal beta male Michael Cera in the comix-romance-video-game farrago _Scott Pilgrim vs. the World_; and these two guy-oriented action films will try to keep Julia Roberts from reasserting her feminine domination of the box office in _Eat Pray Love_. Here are the Sunday estimates of this weekend’s top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo: 1\. _The Other Guys_, $35.6 million, first weekend 2\. _Inception_, $8.6 million; $227.7 million, fourth week 3\. _Step Up 3D_, $15.5 million, first weekend 4\. _Salt_, $11.1 million; $92 million, third week 5\. _Dinner for Schmucks_, $10.5 million; $46.7 million, second week 6\. _Despicable Me_, $9.4 million; $209.4 million, fifth week 7\. _Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore_, $6.9 million; $26.4 million, second week 8\. _Charlie St. Cloud_, $4.7 million; $23.5 million, second week 9\. _Toy Story 3_, $3 million; $396.3 million, eighth week 10\. _The Kids Are All Right_, $2.6 million; $14 million, fourth week [See TIME’s Pictures of the Week.](https://www.time.com/time/picturesoftheweek) [See the Cartoons of the Week.](https://www.time.com/time/cartoonsoftheweek) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6911022/box-office-weekend-ferrell-intercepts-inception/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6911022/box-office-weekend-ferrell-intercepts-inception/"},"headline":"Box Office Weekend: Ferrell Intercepts Inception","datePublished":"2010-08-08T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-22T16:18:27.786Z","description":"After fighting off superspy Angelina Jolie and superschmuck Steve Carell, Leonardo DiCaprio and his team of sleep snoopers finally got knocked off by some other...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6911022/box-office-weekend-ferrell-intercepts-inception/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f160f0bbaeddd05/698a4b77b3fce3fb7a0cc0f7/360_other_guys_0802.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Richard Corliss","url":"https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f160f0bbaeddd05/698a4b77b3fce3fb7a0cc0f7/360_other_guys_0802.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"360_other_guys_0802.jpg","caption":"Will Ferrell, left, and Mark Wahlberg in The Other Guys","creditText":"Macall Polay","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6911022/box-office-weekend-ferrell-intercepts-inception/","name":"Box Office Weekend: Ferrell Intercepts Inception"}}]}] ```