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The splashy 3-D comedy pits Megamind (Will Ferrell) against superhero Metro Man (Brad Pitt) in a tussle for supremacy over Metro City. The weekend result crowned Megamind No. 1, with two movie kings, Robert Downey Jr. and Tyler Perry, staring up. _Megamind_ triumphed over two strong rivals that also opened on Friday: _Due Date_, a road comedy teaming Downey with a co-star (Zach Galifianakis) and the director (Todd Phillips) of _The Hangover_, which pulled in $33.5 million, and Perry’s all-star poetry reading _For Colored Girls_, at $20.1 million. The box office take for all films is predicted to be $154 million, which would be the highest-ever total for a first weekend in November — but not the highest attendance, since a movie ticket, whose price used to be about that of a fast-food burger and fries, now sets you back nearly as much as an entrée at a decent French restaurant. That’s especially true for 3-D movies, the format that brought in two-thirds of _Megamind_‘s revenue in its opening frame. The movie’s gross for its first three days fell between the $59.3 million earned by DreamWorks’ _Monsters vs Aliens_ in 2009 and the $43.7 million earned last March for _How to Train Your Dragon_. That was a soft opening, which put a dent in the company’s stock price; but _Dragon_ enjoyed golden word-of-mouth and finished its domestic run with $217.6 million, for the year’s eighth highest domestic total. _Megamind_, which received an A-minus rating from the CinemaScore poll of exiting moviegoers (just below _Dragon_‘s solid A), might end up with similar numbers. And with the studio’s goal of having every movie earn $200 million at home and halfa billion dollars worldwide — they think big over at DreamWorks — that would make _Megamind_ a success. Of the three features released this year from Jeffrey Katzenberg’s work- and dream-aholics, only one has been a sequel. That was _Shrek Forever After_, which earned $737 million worldwide — the lowest take of the three _Shrek_ sequels, but still quite a haul, and the third highest gross of 2010, after _Toy Story 3_ and _Inception_. The real trick of any studio, especially one specializing in such expensive items as animated features (the typical DreamWorks budget is north of $150 million), is to create new movies that launch franchises. That’s what Katzenberg and his team managed with _Dragon_, which earned nearly a half billion dollars worldwide and has already stoked preparation for a sequel to be released in 2013\. It’s still early days for _Megamind_, which will face stronger competition over the next six weeks than _Dragon_ did in a fallow spring movie season. But with an engaging heroic villain as its lead character, the film could easily be cloned into a _Mega 2_ a few years hence. Perry works on much smaller budgets, usually not more than $20 million, and gets reliable results: four of his last six films have earned between $55 million and $90 million. His latest, based on Ntozake Shange’s 1974 “choreopoem” _For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf_, is a series of monologues performed by a strong cast that includes Janet Jackson, Thandie Newton, Anika Noni Rose, Kimberly Elise and Whoopi Goldberg. Strongly promoted (and, it is said, partly rewritten) by Oprah Winfrey, the movie got the usual savage reviews, which were ignored by Perry’s fan base of African-American women. It’s the director’s eighth film since 2005 to open with more than $20 million. On the specialty circuit, _127 Hours_, the hiking-disaster movie from _Slumdog Millionaire_ director Danny Boyle, opened in four theaters in New York and Los Angeles and earned an impressive $265,925, which any indie studio would give an arm or a leg for. As IndieWire’s Peter Knegt notes, the $66,481 per-screen average was the second highest of the year, just short of the $70,000 average on seven screens amassed in July by _The Kids Are All Right_. In a wider opening, on 46 screens, another true-life-ordeal film, _Fair Game_, took in $700,000 — a good start for the political drama starring Naomi Watts as Bush Administration target Valerie Plame and Sean Penn as her husband Joe Wilson. Two political documentaries keep motoring on, with the financial exposé _Inside Job_ grazing $1 million in its fifth week and the public-school screed _Waiting for “Superman”_ up to $5.4 million in its seventh. Finally, _The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest_, the capper to the Swedish trilogy based on Stieg Larsson’s Millennium novels, has earned nearly $2 million in just 10 days. Lisbeth Salander, the tattooed lady at the center of the novels and films, is soon to be Hollywoodized by director David Fincher and actress Rooney Mara. But we’d love to see Lisbeth go up against Megamind. That’d be a battle royale that could truly light up Metro City. Here are the Sunday estimates of this weekend’s top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo: 1\. _Megamind_, $47.65 million, first weekend 2\. _Due Date_, $33.5 million, first weekend 3\. _For Colored Girls_, $20.1 million, first weekend 4\. _Red_, $8.9 million; $71.9 million, fourth week 5\. _Saw 3D_, $8.2 million; $38.8 million, second week 6\. _Paranormal Activity 2_, $7.3 million; $77.2 million, third week 7\. _Jackass 3D_, $5.1 million; $110.8 million, fourth week 8\. _Hereafter_, $4.2 million; $28.7 million, fourth week 9\. _Secretariat_, $4.02 million; $51 million, fifth week 10\. _The Social Network_, $3.6 million; $85 million, sixth 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/6911210/box-office-megamind-outdoes-due-date/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6911210/box-office-megamind-outdoes-due-date/"},"headline":"Box Office: Megamind Outdoes Due Date","datePublished":"2010-11-07T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-22T16:22:23.626Z","description":"The blue meanie rules. 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