Movie Tuesday: The Dark Knight Rises

As promised, here’s a quick wrap of the weekend’s top money-earners. No bad puns this time around, though.

1. The Dark Knight Rises, $160.9 million (third-highest opening weekend of all time, behind The Avengers and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2)

2.  Ice Age: Continental Drift, $20.4 million

3. The Amazing Spider-Man, $10.9 million

4. Ted, $10 million

5. Brave, $6 million

Paul Asay

Paul Asay has been part of the Plugged In staff since 2007, watching and reviewing roughly 15 quintillion movies and television shows. He’s written for a number of other publications, too, including Time, The Washington Post and Christianity Today. The author of several books, Paul loves to find spirituality in unexpected places, including popular entertainment, and he loves all things superhero. His vices include James Bond films, Mountain Dew and terrible B-grade movies. He’s married, has two children and a neurotic dog, runs marathons on occasion and hopes to someday own his own tuxedo. Feel free to follow him on Twitter @AsayPaul.