DiCaprio fails to beat ‘Immortals’ at box office

LOS ANGELES – Big-budget 3-D epic “Immortals” topped the top of the box office this weekend, beating an Adam Sandler comedy and a Leonardo DiCaprio biopic, industry estimates showed Sunday.

Set in ancient Greece, “Immortals” scored $32 million in weekend receipts, pushing it past Sandler’s “Jack and Jill,” in which he plays both a successful Los Angeles advertising executive and his needy identical twin sister Jill.

The comedy came in second with $26 million, according to monitor Exhibitor Relations.

Animated kids’ romp “Puss in Boots,” last week’s leader, took third place with $25.5 million. The flick features voice work by Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis and Billy Bob Thornton.

In fourth was “Tower Heist,” with an all-star cast led by Eddie Murphy, at $13.2 million.

It was trailed by Clint Eastwood’s “J. Edgar,” which stars DiCaprio as late FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and raked in $11.5 million.

Comedy sequel “A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas” fell to sixth place, with $5.9 million, besting futuristic thriller “In Time” starring Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried at $4.2 million.

Dropping to the eighth spot was “Paranormal Activity 3,” with $3.6 million over the weekend but an impressive total of $100.8 million over four weeks in theaters.

A remake of the hit 1980s dance romp “Footloose” slipped to ninth at $2.7 million, ahead of the boxing robots of “Real Steel,” with the Disney hit for children starring Hugh Jackman taking in $2 million.