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'Ice' cools Spidey run

CINEMA GOLD: The 'Ice Age' gang have done it again.
CINEMA GOLD: The 'Ice Age' gang have done it again.

ICE AGE: Continental Drift, the fourth film in the animated series featuring a woolly mammoth and his prehistoric friends, trampled The Amazing Spider-Man and took top spot at North American box offices with $46-million (R380m).

Featuring the voice of comedian Ray Romano as the warm-hearted mammoth Manny and John Leguizamo as Sid the fast-talking sloth, the 3-D film's opening weekend beat forecasts and topped the debut of the most recent movie in the series, 2009's Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, which opened to $42m.

The biggest opening in the series was 2006's Ice Age: The Meltdown, which grossed $68m in its first weekend.

Overall the animated series has collected $1.9-billion (R16bn) in worldwide ticket sales, according to ticket tracking website Box Office Mojo.

The new Ice Age had been projected to gross $40m (R330m), according to Paul Dergarabedian, the president Hollywood.com's box office division.

Spider-Man, the reboot of the blockbuster series that stars Andrew Garfield as the superhero's alter ego Peter Parker, collected $35m (R289m) at the weekend, after selling $140m (R1.2bn) in ticket sales during a six-day run that began with midnight shows the day before the July 4 holiday.

Its cumulative domestic ticket sales after roughly two weeks in cinemas now stands at $201m (R1.7bn). Add another $320m (R2.6bn) overseas, and worldwide ticket sales total $521m (R4.3bn), easily making it among the year's top movies.

Ted, a comedy about a man and his foul-mouthed, pot-smoking teddy bear, slipped to third place with domestic sales of $22.1m (R183m) from Friday through Sunday.

Directed by Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, the Universal Pictures release has earned $159m (R1.3bn) domestically since its debut and has become a Hollywood summer surprise.

Disney's Brave weathered the entrance of the edgier Ice Age and landed in No4.

The movie about a rebellious, red-haired Scottish princess grabbed $10.6m (R87m) .

Magic Mike edged out Oliver Stone's gritty drug drama, Savages , to claim the No5.

Mike rang up $9m (R74m ) in tickets to boost its total to $92m (R760m ). - Reuters

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