Weekend Box Office: June 21-23

Courtesy of Box Office Mojo:

1.  Monsters University - $82 million

2.  World War Z - $66 million

3.  Man of Steel - $41.2 million

4.  This is the End - $13 million

5.  Now Your See Me - $7.8 million

6.  Fast & Furious 6 - $4.7 million

7.  The Internship - $3.4 million

8.  The Purge - $3.4 million

9.  Star Trek Into Darkness - $3 million

10.  Iron Man 3 - $2.1 million

Not even Superman could break Pixar's opening weekend streak, as Monsters University blew away the competition, opening with an estimated $82 million.  Not only did the prequel become the 14th Pixar film in a row to open in first place at the box office, this opening was second only to Toy Story 3's $110 million opening in 2010.  It also beat the $62 million opening weekend of Monsters Inc, although that opened in 2001 and didn't have the benefit of 3D.  With Despicable Me 2 waiting just around the corner, that was definitely the start that Disney was hoping for.

In second place, seemingly against all odds, was the Brad Pitt zombie thriller World War Z, which earned an excellent $62 million.  Despite its reported production problems and massive budget (including having to reshoot the film's entire third act), the movie wound up not only scoring some decent reviews, but cashed in on the current Walking Dead-infused zombie craze, as audiences turned up in droves anyway.  Whether it makes its budget back remains to be seen, but it definitely didn't crash and burn the way After Earth did earlier this month.

And that leaves us with Man of Steel, which had some trouble keeping up with this weekend's newcomers and lands in third place with $41.2 million.  Check out Jamie's excellent wrap-up of what that all means for the franchise here, and don't worry, Superman will be fine.

Proving to be a nice little is This Is The End, which earned $13 million this weekend.  The apocalyptic comedy has earned $57 million domestically so far.  Also holding up well amidsts all of these superheros and zombies has been Now You Can See Me, which looks likely to be passing the $100 million mark at some point this week.

Next weekend brings this year's second White House under-siege action movie, White House Down, along with our second Melissa McCarthy comedy of the year, The Heat.  And they are probably both going to make a ton of money.