Expectations are high for the 3-D film How To Train Your Dragon, which opens this weekend.
Other hopefuls include the DreamWorks releases Megamind, Shrek Forever After and How to Train Your Dragon.
Shrek Forever After and How to Train Your Dragon are already ranked seventh and eighth, respectively.
How to Train Your Dragon came out March 26th and Clash of the Titans hit theaters April 2.
On the movie Web site Flixster Hot Tub Time Machine is getting more attention than How to Train Your Dragon.
DreamWorks Animation ( DWA - news - people ) release How to Train Your Dragon in two weeks.
Between Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar, and the aforementioned How to Train Your Dragon, the company has given birth to a number of successful franchises.
Because of its clever title the MGM film built up plenty of good buzz going into its March 26 opening (opposite How to Train Your Dragon).
The technology helped push Toy Story 3, Despicable Me, How to Train Your Dragon, Shrek Forever After and Tangled into the top 10 highest-grossing films of 2010.
Most of its recent hits, like Iron Man 2 and How to Train Your Dragon, are films that the studio only distributes, meaning it only gets about 12% of the revenue.
Dreamworks was always the likely top contender, with viable franchises and brands via the Madagascar animals, the Shrek universe, and the expanding mythologies of How to Train Your Dragon and Kung Fu Panda.
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There will soon be a big traffic jam at 3-D theaters as Alice in Wonderland (which hit theaters last weekend), Clash of the Titans and How to Train Your Dragon all jostle for those screens.
About the PG-rated "How to Train Your Dragon, " for example, we learn that it includes such phrases as, "All hell is going to break loose in my undies, " "The gods hate me, " "This is stupid, " "It's us, idiots!"
Seventy percent of the first weekend gross for Alice in Wonderland came from 3-D ticket sales, 68% for How to Train Your Dragon and 60% for Toy Story 3, according to BTIG Research (subscription required to follow the link).
More reviews will roll out over the next two days but as of Thursday afternoon the film had a 97% fresh rating making it one of the top five best reviewed films of the year along with Toy Story 3 and How to Train Your Dragon.
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