Super Hero Derby

So the House of Walt is making up for John Carter with this:

... Disney is reporting stronger North American box office for Marvel’s The Avengers in Digital 3D, RealD and IMAX 3D than it dared to hope and even Avengers Box Office Predictionsrival studios thought possible. The Friday opening number is now $80.5 ...

Naturally enough, it's sucked most of the oxygen from the rest of U.S.-Canadian box office.

1. Marvel’s The Avengers (Disney) NEW [4,349 Theaters] PG13
Friday $80.5M, Weekend $175M

2. Think Like A Man (Screen Gems/Sony) Week 3 [2,010 Theaters] PG13 Friday $2.6M, Weekend $8.0M, Cume $76.1M

3. The Hunger Games (Lionsgate) Week 7 [2,794 Theaters] PG13
Friday $1.9M, Weekend $6.7M, Cume $381.7M

4. The Lucky One (Warner Bros) Week 3 [3,005 Theaters] PG13
Friday $1.8M, Weekend $5.5M, Cume $47.9M

5. The Five-Year Engagement (Universal) Week 2 [2,941 Theaters] R
Friday $1.8M (-47%), Weekend $5.8M, Cume $19.7M

6. Pirates! Band of Misfits 3D (Aardman/Sony) Week 2 [3,358 Theaters] PG Friday $1.3M (-50%), Weekend $5.9M, Cume $19.1M

7. The Raven (Relativity) Week 2 [2,209 Theaters] R
Friday $950K (-62%), Weekend $2.8M, Cume $12.3M

8. Safe (Lionsgate) Week 2 [2,271 Theaters] R
Friday $900K (-66%), Weekend $2.7M, Cume $13.1M

9. Chimpanzee (Disneynature) Week 3 [1,531 Theaters] PG
Friday $707K, Weekend $2.2M, Cume $22.8M

10. The Three Stooges (Fox) Week 4 [2,174 Theaters] PG
Friday $480K, Weekend $1.8M, Cume $39.6M

The stop-motion Pirates saw a 50% drop in box office.

Add On: Turns out that the Mouse's Super Hero movie did better than they first thought. North of $207 million.