"BRAVE" DEBUTS COURAGEOUSLY AT BOX OFFICE

Still from Brave

Fantastic showing by Pixar/Disney’s Scotland-set Animated Feature, Brave, opening this weekend with $66.7 million from 4,164 theatres. The $185-million budget Production, voiced by the likes of Up-and-Comer Kelly MacDonald, Billy Connolly and Emma Thompson opened impressively Friday with $24.5 million and Critics also are responding, with it garnering 74% on Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer.

Now in its third week of release, Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted still is going strong for Paramount Pictures in second spot with $20.2 million.To-date, it has earned $157 million in North America.

20th Century Fox’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter opened with big expectations, being produced for $69 million, but opens only with $16.5 million this weekend - good enough for third. Reviews have been mixed for the once promising Mash-up Historical Zombie Thriller, earning 38% on the Tomatometer. It lands ahead of another Film from the studio landing ahead of Prometheus  with $10 million, just breaking the $100 million mark on Friday domestically.

Rock of Ages finds itself in fifth spot this weekend with $8 million, looking as if it won’t recoup that $75 million budget that went into the Musical. Meanwhile, Snow White and The Huntsman is in sixth spot with $8 million also in its fourth week, for Universal Pictures.

The only other debut this weekend is Focus Features/eOne Films’ mixed-reviewed Seeking a Friend at the End of the World starring Kiera Knightley and Steve Carrell, rounding out the Top Ten with $3.8 million from 1,625 theatres.

FIRST LOOK: "ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER"

Still from Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter

A Tim Burton-produced Movie without Johnny Depp or Helena Bonham Carter? How is that even possible? See this exclusive First Look at Director Timur Bekmambetov's Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter from 20th Century Fox. The $70-million production stars Benjamin Walker (Flags of our Fathers, Kinsey) as Abraham Lincoln and is described by Time Magazine as "an epic mixing of History, Fable and Fantasy"; a Mash-up if you will.  29-year-old Walker actually is the Son-in-Law of Meryl Streep, married to her Daughter Mamie Gummer.

The Action-Fantasy sees Lincoln being elected President, leading his Country into the Civil War with an agenda to rid America of Vampires.  We learn his own Mother was killed by a supernatural Creature.  Looks rather stunning with some finely-choreographed Action Sequences from the same Man who brought us Box Office-topper Wanted.

Politics and Vampires?  Sounds pretty quirky to me, wouldn't you agree?  Our Friends at 20th Century Fox Films Canada are mighty excited about this June 22, 2012 release which also stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Dominic Cooper. And yes, it will be in 3-D.

Watch the Preview in full below: