Pixar’s latest narrowly edged out DreamWorks’ Kung Fu Panda opening weekend numbers with a $23.1M Friday and a rather modest $23M Saturday for a $62.5M three-day total. Meanwhile Panda, in spite of suffering its biggest drop this weekend (46.5%), still topped $179.3M on its way to beat Madagascar‘s $193.6M by the end of its run to become DreamWorks Animation’s second most successful original film domestically behind Shrek. Both Wall•E and Kung Fu Panda are expected to do brisk business overseas.
Official estimates are in: #1 with $62.5M for Wall•E