“Madagascar 2″ Opens Big

Hollywood had another solid weekend at the box-office according to preliminary results.  The big winner of the weekend was DreamWorks Animation’s “Madagasar: Escape 2 Africa,” taking in $63.5 million this weekend.  The box-office take was $10 million more than expert projected Friday.

Coming in second was another new movie, the R-rated comedy “Role Models.”  The movie rang up $19.3 million in ticket sales.

Bernie Mac’s final film “Soul Men” opened in sixth place, taking in $6.5 million. “High School Muscial,” “Changeling” and “Zach and Miri Make a Porno” rounded out the top five for the weekend.

Overall, ticket sales rose 80% over last weekend and 32% over the same weekend in 2007.

Final box-office figures will be released Tuesday and we’ll bring them to you as soon as we have them.