It's amazing. Between the return of the Karate Kid and the comeback of The A-Team, it's practically 1984 again. The one thing that's different is the movies make a whole lot more money than they did 26 years ago. For example, the original Karate Kid made about $90 million overall in the US. Jaden Smith's remake of the Karate Kid, with Jackie Chan taking over the Pat Morita role, opened up with $56 million this weekend. That's $51 million more than the original Karate Kid's opening weekend, and it also doubled up on the closest competitor.

The A-Team, the weekend's second long-awaited debut movie, picked up a $26 million opening this weekend, which has to be a huge disappointment. Not The Losers bad, for sure, but to make so little of a splash is a bad sign for the future of The A-Team franchise-in-waiting.

Shrek has finally been knocked from his perch after an unlikely run at the top. The movie picked up another $15.8 million this weekend, and broke $200 million fairly easily. After the rough start the movie had, the fact that it'd done as well as it has is nothing short of incredible. I figured this flick would've been gone by now, yet it's still hanging on, and still raking in money. Maybe they'll push the button for Shrek 5 after all. I hope they won't, but you never can tell with these people.

Get Him To The Greek stumbles in its second weekend, with its box office position dropping from second to fourth on $10 million. The movie has picked up a solid $36 million at the US box office. It's not showing the performance of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, but a musical comedy is a much harder sell than a romantic comedy.

Dropping to fifth place is Killers, down from third last week. The movie picked up another $8.17 million this weekend, pushing it across $30 million in the US. Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time comes in at sixth place, on $6.6 million. Persia has only been out for a week more than Killers, yet it's made $36 million more. That just shows how important a hot start is for a movie.

Dropping into seventh place is Marmaduke. The flick picked up a disturbingly high $6 million this weekend, though it did drop a spot in the box office. Ugh. The sooner this poor man's Garfield goes away, the better off we all are. Drooling and eating are the two most popular activities at daycare, not at the multiplex.

Dropping steeply from fifth last weekend to eighth this is Sex And The City 2. The gauche fantasy of hyperrich, oversexed women from New York picked up another $5.25 million this weekend, and is right under $85 million for its gross so far (the original Sex And The City had picked up $120 million in that time frame, in less theaters and with cheaper tickets). Still, while the US box office is down, the foreign box office has pushed the movie to over $212 million and counting. Prepare yourselves to see a 55-year-old Kim Cattrall get her kit off in Sex And The City 3: Hot Summer Flashes in two years.

Dropping to ninth place is the venerable Iron Man 2. Adding $4.55 million to its swelling coffers, Tony Stark et al have another $300 million movie on their hands (in the US). By the time you read this, Iron Man 2 will have grossed $600 million worldwide. Remember when movies were big hits for making $100 million? How quaint!

Rounding out the top 10 is Splice, which picked up $2.86 million. This poor movie never really had much of a chance, coming out in the middle of summer like it did (and taking place in cold and snowy weather like it does. Way to plan this out, Hollywood). Shame, too, as it's a really creepy, really interesting flick.

Speaking of interesting, Toy Story 3 is coming out next weekend, along with another interesting flick in the form of Jonah Hex. While seeing the finished product behind all the horror stories of reshoots and budget problems in the form of Josh Brolin's bad-ass magical cowboy will be fun, all eyes are on Toy Story 3. The company that blew our minds with Toy Story isn't the same group anymore. It'll be interesting to see what they have in mind for Andy's beloved toys now that he's heading off to college.