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    'Dark Knight' stays on top with $62 million

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — "The Dark Knight Rises" dominated the box office for a second-straight week, making just over $62 million, according to studio figures Monday.

    That's a slight drop from Warner Bros.' Sunday estimate of $64 million. The much-anticipated final piece in Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy has now made more than $287 million in its first 10 days.

    The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Hollywood.com are:

    1. "The Dark Knight Rises," Warner Bros., $62,101,451, 4,404 locations, $14,101 average, $287,112,810, two weeks.

    2. "Ice Age: Continental Drift," Fox, $13,352,646, 3869 locations, $3,451 average, $114,899,860, three weeks.

    3. "The Watch," Fox, $12,750,297, 3168 locations, $4,025 average, $12,750,297, one week.

    4. "Step Up Revolution," Lionsgate, $11,731,708, 2567 locations, $4,570 average, $11,731,708, one week.

    5. "Ted," Universal, $7,353,150, 3129 locations, $2,350 average, $193,618,750, five weeks.

    6. "The Amazing Spider-Man," Sony, $6,701,111, 3160 locations, $2,121 average, $241,953,721, four weeks.

    7. "Brave," Disney, $4,305,153, 2551 locations, $1,688 average, $217,329,672, six weeks.

    8. "Magic Mike," Warner Bros., $2,619,128, 2075 locations, $1,262 average, $107,625,983, five weeks.

    9. "Savages," Universal, $1,838,215, 1414 locations, $1,300 average, $43,983,785, four weeks.

    10. "Moonrise Kingdom," Focus Features, $1,434,904, 853 locations, $1,682 average, $38,641,403, 10 weeks.

    11. "Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection," Lionsgate, $1,308,870, 1111 locations, $1,178 average, $62,736,167, five weeks.

    12. "To Rome With Love," Sony Pictures Classics, $1,000,279, 492 locations, $2,033 average, $12,910,121, six weeks.

    13. "Beasts of the Southern Wild," Fox Searchlight, $926,046, 208 locations, $4,452 average, $4,206,936, five weeks.

    14. "Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted," Paramount, $900,570, 808 locations, $1,115 average, $209,570,970, eight weeks.

    15. "Katy Perry: Part of Me," Paramount," $550,177, 606 locations, $908 average, $24,136,074, four weeks.

    16. "The Hunger Games," Lionsgate, $518,940, 310 locations, $1,674 average, $405,882,323, 19 weeks.

    17. "The Intouchables," Weinstein Co., $517,519, 194 locations, $2,668 average, $7,774,087, 10 weeks.

    18. "The Avengers," Disney, $512,958, 373 locations, $1,375 average, $615,996,809, 13 weeks.

    19. "Snow White and the Huntsman," Universal, $394,050, 355 locations, $1,110 average, $153,261,285, nine weeks.

    20. "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," Fox Searchlight, $335,342, 276 locations, $1,215 average, $44,471,606, 13 weeks.

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    Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.

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    AP Entertainment Writer Derrik J. Lang is on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/derrikjlang.

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