The Lorax Crushes Box Office Competition

Act of Valor Project X Safe House The Lorax Tyler Perry's Good Deeds

10:00 am, March 4th, 2012

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BOX OFFICE

The Lorax easily beat the competition in its first week at the box office.

The animated Dr. Seuss adaptation, featuring the voices of Zac Efron, Taylor Swift and Danny DeVito, took in an astounding $70.7 million.

Coming in a very distant second was Project X, the R-rated comedy about a wild high school house party. It earned $20.8 million.

Nabbing third place was Act of Valor, with $13.7 million.

Safe House and Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds took fourth and fifth places, with $7.2 million and $7 million, respectively.

Rounding out the Top 10 were Journey ($6.9 million), The Vow ($6.1 million), This Means War ($5.6 million), Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance ($4.7 million), and The Artist ($3.9 million).

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