Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa is Crowning the Box Office!

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Four members of the zoo and their friends has captured our hearts, once again.

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, a movie to have a great laugh while watching stranded zoo animals trying to get back to where they were came from, debuting this week with awesome numbers. The movie which is a sequel of 2005’s animation movie Madagascar, had a $63.5 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday.

It had far surpassed the $47.2 million debut for Madagascar over Memorial Day weekend in 2005. Its three-day total also beat the $61 million gross the first movie took in over that full four-day holiday weekend. Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippopotamus from Madagascar 2 beats the third installment of High School Musical, respectively. The movie had Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer and Jada Pinkett Smith as the four main ‘animal’ stars. The late Bernie Mac providing vocals as Zuba, the father of Ben Stiller’s Alex the Lion.

The Universal Pictures comedy Role Models, starring Seann William Scott and Paul Rudd, is following in second place. The movie portraits both Scott and Rudd as immature adults sentenced to community service as mentors for two misfit youths. While on the chart, HSM3 dropped two places to number 3.

Here are the complete top ten movies in the box office:

1. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa ($63.5 million)
2. Role Models ($19.3 million)
3. High School Musical 3: Senior Year ($9.3 million)
4. Changeling ($7.3 million)
5. Zack and Miri Make a Porno ($6.5 million)
6. Soul Men ($5.6 million)
7. Saw V ($4.2 million)
8. The Haunting of Molly Hartley ($3.5 million)
9. The Secret Life of Bees ($3.1 million)
10. Eagle Eye ($2.6 million)

Have fun at the theaters all! As the gang of Madagascar 2 would say, you got to move it!

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