LOS ANGELES: Anne Hathaway and Jesse Eisenberg's talking birds have edged out Tyler Perry's sass-talking grandma at the weekend box office. Hathaway and Eisenberg's animated family adventure “Rio” took in $26.8 million to remain the No. 1 movie for the second-straight weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. “Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family” debuted a close second with $25.8 million, another solid opening for writer-director Perry, who also stars as boisterous, opinionated grandma Madea. Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson's circus romance “Water for Elephants” premiered in third-place with $17.5 million. “It's nice to have two movies in the top-three,” said Bert Livingston, distribution executive for 20th Century Fox, which released both “Rio” and “Water for Elephants.” The weekend's other new wide release, Disney's nature documentary “African Cats,” opened at No. 6 with $6.4 million. Morgan Spurlock's product-placement documentary “POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold” opened with fair but unremarkable business in limited release. The latest from the maker of the hit documentary “Super Size Me” took in $135,139 in 18 theaters, averaging $7,508 a cinema. That compares to an $11,254 average in 2,288 theaters for “Madea's Big Happy Family,” which had by far the best cinema average among the top-10 movies. Hollywood scored its second-straight weekend of rising revenues, good news for studios that have been in a box-office slide since last fall.
