Weekend Box Office: Trifecta Avengers Sunk Your Battleship

Battleship has pretty much locked down the award for biggest special effects orgy of the summer, but American audiences weren't lining up to watch the fireworks. Thanks to a much more interested international audience it won't be a summer bust, but the board-game-turned-movie had nothing on the comic-domination phenomenon.

For a third weekend in a row The Avengers held an easy first place lead, this week adding an additional $55 million to its $457 million total US sales. Now the number six all-time money maker in the US, it's set to possibly climb all the way to third place on that list, behind only Titanic and Avatar.

Meanwhile Battleship settled for a distant second place with just $25 million. That's a lame amount when stacked against its CGI-burdened $209 budget and no doubt massively expensive marketing effort. But thanks to $215 million in international sales it's well on its way to breaking even.

Sacha Baron Cohen's latest offering The Dictator dropped in at third place with $17 million. That's the lowest debut for one of Cohen's semi-comedic improv character pieces, but likely not low enough to get him to drop the act and move on to something that we'd probably all rather see: actual comedy.

Dropping in at fifth place was the other loosely-based-on-a-seemingly-unadaptable-concept to hit theaters this weekend, What to Expect When You're Expecting. Americans seemed uninterested in this latest version of a pregnancy comedy, only handing over $10 million.

For the full top ten break down, check out the chart below:

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1.Marvel's The Avengers$55,057,000Total: $457,078,000LW: 1 WR: 3
THTRS: 4,249
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2.Battleship *$25,300,000Total: $25,300,000LW: N WR: 1
THTRS: 3,690
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3.The Dictator *$17,415,000Total: $24,456,000LW: N WR: 1
THTRS: 3,008
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4.Dark Shadows$12,770,000Total: $50,908,000LW: 2 WR: 2
THTRS: 3,755
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5.What to Expect When You're Expecting *$10,500,000Total: $10,500,000LW: N WR: 1
THTRS: 3,021
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6.The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel$3,250,000Total: $8,257,000LW: 8 WR: 3
THTRS: 178
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7.The Hunger Games$3,000,000Total: $391,631,000LW: 4 WR: 9
THTRS: 2,064
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8.Think Like a Man$2,700,000Total: $85,888,000LW: 3 WR: 5
THTRS: 1,722
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9.The Lucky One$1,765,000Total: $56,921,000LW: 5 WR: 5
THTRS: 2,005
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10.The Pirates! Band of Misfits$1,450,000Total: $25,362,000LW: 7 WR: 4
THTRS: 1,840