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LOS ANGELES — Disney’s “High School Musical 3: Senior Year” hoofed its way to the top of the weekend box-office class with $42 million, while Lionsgate’s horror sequel “Saw V” had to settle for second place with $30.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
A big-screen sequel to the Disney Channel TV movies, “High School Musical 3” had a record opening for a song-and-dance flick, easily beating the previous best of $27.8 million, set over the summer by “Mamma Mia!”
The previous weekend’s No. 1 movie, 20th Century Fox’s action tale “Max Payne,” fell to third place with $7.6 million, raising its 10-day total to $29.7 million. The Associated Press
