20th Century Fox’s “Horton Hears A Who?” Top At Box Office

March 17, 2008

(Long Island, N.Y.) 20th Century Fox’s newest animation movie “Dr. Seuss’s Horton Hears A Who?” featuring the voice of Jim Carey topped last week’s box office in its debut week after it raked in over $45.1 million in ticket sales nationwide.

The movie stars Horton, an elephant voiced by Award winning actor Jim Carey and it tells the tale of his adventures in an effort to save the minute city of Whoville which is a small inhabitation of the Who’s. Whoville is located in a speck of dust at the jungle and its mayor voiced by actor Steve Carrel has the same idealisms as Horton has. Both of them believe that their own worlds are nearing doom. Horton heard the mayor’s cry for help one day and the two of them embarked on their mission to preserve Whoville and the world.

“It’s a ‘who-mongous’ opening, and it’s playing to all Who’s two to 92,” said 20th Century Fox distribution executive Chris Aronson. “If you can’t do an ode to Dr. Seuss with an opening like this, come on.”

“Dr. Seuss’s Horton Hears A Who?” $45.1 million earnings in its first week placed the movie in the record books as the fourth highest grossing movie of all-time for the month of March behind “Ice Age”, “Ice Age 2″ and Robots while toppling this years former number one opening week high grosser “Cloverfield” released last January which earned over $40.6 Million its opening week.

The previous week’s number one movie “10,000 B.C.” a prehistoric epic by Warner Brothers finished second with $16.4 Million upping its two week total sales to over $61.2 million. Summit Entertainment’s “Never Back Down” a movie about mixed martial arts debut at the third spot with a $8.6 million opening week. Rounding out the top five are Gunn Films movie “College Road trip” with $7.9 Million ranking in fourth while the original shot movie “Vantage Point” starring Dennis Quad and Forrest Whitaker finished fifth with $5.4 Million.

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