Talking robots, bad bosses and comedic chimps …
… ruled the box office this weekend.

Courtesy of BoxOfficeMojo, Here’s the numbers:

NAME: WEEKEND: TOTALS:
1. Transformers: Dark of the Moon $47M $261M

2. Horrible Bosses $28.1M $28.1M
3. Zookeeper $21M $21M
4. Cars 2 $15.2M $149M
5. Bad Teacher $9M $78.7M

6. Larry Crowne $6.2M $26.52M

7. Super 8 $4.8M $118M
8. Monte Carlo $3.8M $16.1M
9. Green Lantern $3.1M $109M
10. Mr. Popper’s Penguins $2.85M $57.74M

And for your morning read, here’s one from The Guardian on a rare Chaplin short that was recently discovered in a second-hand shop:
“An unemployed man has discovered a rare Charlie Chaplin film among a junk shop job lot.
Brian Hann, 40, found the 35mm nitrate film at the Second Time Around shop in South Shields. The seven-minute footage is part of a first world war propaganda movie titled Zepped which Chaplin filmed in 1917 in an effort to help defuse the terror inspired by Zeppelin bombing raids over London. Last week, what was believed to be the only copy went on sale at Bonhams auction house in London for £100,000.”

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