The Dark Knight Rises held on to the top spot at North American box offices this weekend.

The film finished its debut weekend with the third-largest earnings ever, and this weekend raked in earnings well above its competitors, bringing in €52 million, according to Exhibitor Relations, which tracks ticket sales.

Second place, with €10.8million, went to 3D computer-animated adventure comedy Ice Age 4: Continental Drift.

Coming in just behind was science-fiction comedy The Watch, which opened with €10.6 million in box office receipts.

The film stars Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill and Richard Ayoade as four suburban dads who form a neighbourhood watch only to end up battling an alien invasion. Step Up: Revolution, about a crew of street dancers protesting urban development plans in Miami, opened in fourth (€9.6 million), followed by cheeky teddy bear comedy Ted (€5.9 million) and The Amazing Spider-Man (€6.5 million).

Pixar studio’s 3D animated fairytale Brave dropped to seventh place (€3.4 million), ahead of Steven Soderbergh’s comedy about male strippers, Magic Mike (€2.1 million), and Oliver Stone’s new thriller Savages (€1.3 million), about Californian drug traffickers facing off against a Mexican cartel.

Rounding out the top 10 was Wes Anderson’s dream-like narrative Moonrise Kingdom, with €1.06 million.