(UPDATED WITH final numbers)
Well, if I was picking winners of the weekend football games, I would be 5 out of 10 in MY WEEKEND BOX OFFICE PREDICTION: – with 1st, 4th, 7th, 9th, and 10th place right….

The #1 movie – “Madagascar 2″ wasn’t just #1, it was a smash hit with $63 million – that’s a bigger opening than these other family movies: “High School Musical 3″ ($42 million)… more than “Beverly Hills Chihuahua” ($29 million)… “Horton Hears a Who!” ($45 million)… …only “WALL-E” ($63 million) and “Kung Fu Panda” ($60 million) had opening weekends as big !!!!   Its actually the 5th biggest opening of the year!

The weekend’s #2 movie “Role Models” cruised in with a solid showing of nearly $20 million… as the alternative choice to “Madagascar 2″.

TOP 10 WEEKEND BOX OFFICE (ACTUAL results):

1. “Madagascar 2: Ecsape to Africa” – $63.11 million (1st week)

2. “Role Models” – $19.17 million (1st week)

3. “High School Musical 3” - $9.16 million
(3rd week, was #1 last week, lost 40% of its audience from last week)

4. “Changeling” - $7.25 million
(3rd week, was #4 last week, lost 22% of its audience from last week)

5. “Zack and Miri Make a Porno” - $6.27 million
(2nd week, was #2 last week, lost 37% of its audience from last week)

6. “Soul Men” – $5.40 million (1st week)

7. “Saw V” - $4.07 million
(3rd week, was #3 last week, lost 58% of its audience from last week)

8. “The Haunting of Molly Hartley” - $3.32 million
(2nd week, was #5 last week, lost 39% of its audience from last week)

9. “The Secret Life of Bees” - $3.09 million
(4th week, was #7 last week, lost 23% of its audience from last week)

10. “Eagle Eye” - $2.54 million
(7th week, was #9 last week, lost 27% of its audience from last week)

11. “Beverly Hills Chihuahua” - $2.49 million
(6th week, was #6 last week, lost 49% of its audience from last week)

Box Office numbers courtesy Box Office Mojo

“Madagascar Escape 2 Africa” poster courtesy Paramount-DreamWorks