While Batman lurks, 'Ice Age' tops box office

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Posted: July 16, 2012

With Batman lurking, the prehistoric critters of Ice Age: Continental Drift ran off with the box office, earning $46 million in their opening weekend. The animated film is the fourth in the Ice Age series, the first in 3-D.

There has now been a decade of Ice Age films, with the characters voiced by Ray Romano, Queen Latifah, and John Leguizamo becoming increasingly familiar to audiences, particularly international ones. The film had already done robust overseas business ahead of opening in the United States. This weekend, it earned $95 million internationally, bringing its overseas total to $339 million.

The weekend was inevitably shadowed by two superheroes, a week after the debut of The Amazing Spider-Man, and one week before the highly anticipated Batman sequel, The Dark Knight Rises. In its second week of release, Spider-Man earned $35 million, pushing it past $200 million domestically, and another $67 million overseas, for a worldwide gross of $521.4 million.

Seth MacFarlane's comedy hit, Ted, starring Mark Wahlberg and a talking teddy bear, added $22 million in its third week for a $159 million total.

Ice Age is the third animated blockbuster to debut at No. 1 this summer; the previous mega-cartoons — Brave and Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted — also padded their totals this weekend: Brave added $10.7 million to its $195.6 million domestic total, and Madagascar 3 added $3.5 million to its $203.7 million domestic total.

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