It’s both a bear and bull market for Hollywood.
The bear is “Ted,” Mark Wahlberg and Seth MacFarlane’s comedy for Universal Pictures about a talking teddy bear, which opened as the No. 1 movie with $54.1 million.
And the bulls are baring it in the Warner Bros. release “Magic Mike,” Channing Tatum and Steven Soderbergh’s male-stripper tale that debuted at No. 2 with $39.2 million.
The two movies were followed by Pixar and Disney’s animated flick “Brave” at No. 3 with $34 million in its second weekend. “Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection,” the latest from the dependable breadwinner for Lionsgate Films, opened solidly at No. 4, with $26.4 million.
The four movies combined to keep Hollywood in the money compared with the same weekend last year, when “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” launched with $97.9 million.