Performing better than "Priest" was the holdover "Fast Five", which skidded 40 percentage for $19.5 million. With $168.8 million in the bank, the deed video passed 2009's "Fast and Furious" to transform the street-racing franchise's top grosser.

Check behind afterward week as "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" invades extra than 4,000 theaters,Green Laser, and Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris" unspools in Los Angeles and New York.

With matrons representing 67 percent of the spectators, "Bridesmaids" likewise testified that there's a mall for a raunchy R-rated comedy featuring a female ensemble. Audiences generally liked the movie, with CinemaScore graders handing it a "B+" rating. Of particular note: Six percent of the graders listed "male performer in guide role" as their reason for attending the movie. There is not lead man actor in "Bridesmaids", but judging by the "A" rating this crowd segment gave the film, we tin suppose they averaged Jon Hamm's steamy supporting role.

In limited release, the Will Ferrell dramedy "Everything Must Go" debuted to a chaste $825,000 from 218 theaters.

"Thor" requires sustenance! Moviegoers complied, as the Lord of thunder topped the box office for the second week in a row with $34.5 million, along to studio estimates.On Friday, the $150 million action film dropped a somewhat fearing 64 percent from the prior week,Wholesale Beads, yet it then roared back with a mightier-than-expected Saturday.

And in fifth place, the animated venture "Rio" slipped fair 6 percent for $8 million, bringing its cumulative absolute to $125 million.

The week's other fashionable release,Cell Phone Jammer, the 3-D horror action film "Priest", opened in fourth to a merely okay $14.5 million. The $60 million movie, released by Sony's Screen Gems label and starring Paul Bettany,Green Laser Pointer, brought in a mob that was 57 percent male. Critics gave "Priest" unholy reviews, as did CinemaScore audiences, who ticketed the PG-13 movie with a "C+" grade.

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The weekend's additional box-office hero was "Bridesmaids", which debuted in second with an impressive $24.4 million. The Universal sitcom, starring Saturday Night Live's Kristen Wiig in her largest movie character already, benefited from top-notch reviews and gave producer Judd Apatow his best beginning since 2008's "Step Brothers".

The screenplay "Hesher", starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Natalie Portman (in her fifth movie this year), flopped with $127,000 from 40 locations.

And special recognition goes out to the disco flick "Go for It!", which opened to $110,000 from 218 theaters. With a per-theater average of $505, my back-of-the-envelope measurement says one average of 4 folk heeded every showing of the movie.

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Overall, "Thor" fell a mild 48 percent for the weekend, holding up better in its second week than such recent Marvel-based films as "Iron Man 2" (which declined 59 percent), "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" (69 percent), and "The Incredible Hulk" (60 percent), when equaling the incipient "Iron Man's" drop of 48 percent. However, "Thor" is going to need a bigger hammer whether he thinks he can hold up as well next week while Jack Sparrow comes to town.

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