Horton hears box office gold

Despite a huge, $20 million challenge from Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns, as well as $10 million bows from Shutter and Drillbit Taylor, it was Dr. Suess’ immortal Horton Hears A Who that remained atop the weekend box office charts this weekend, raking in another $25 million. The animated film’s total is now at $86.47 million and growing, certainly making the film with the $85 million investment required to make the movie.

Horton’s search for the Whos of Whoville might have been aided these days by GPS tracking, but even such technological advances won’t recover the $105 million investment it took to make 10,000 BC, which thus far has only made $76 million and is sinking fast.

By far, the worst bow this week belonged to Under the Same Moon, which debuted at 10th with only $2.6 million.