Disney hyped the film to hell and the marketing dollars have paid off as the Sleeping Beauty villain goes right to the top in it;s debut week with a comfortable $70 million.
Falling a single place to number 2 this week is X-Men Days of Future Past which grosses $32.6 million over the weekend.
There were no other new films on the US box office this week.
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