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LOS ANGELES — Little blue Smurfs and not-so-little green men from space were in a photo finish for the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office.
Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford’s sci-fi Western “Cowboys & Aliens” and the family adventure “The Smurfs” both opened with $36.2 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. Figuring out the No. 1 movie will have to wait until final numbers are counted today.
“In all my years, I’ve never really seen a race this close,” said Paul Dergarabedian, an analyst for box-office tracker Hollywood .
The previous weekend’s top movie, “Captain America: The First Avenger,” slipped to No. 3 with $24.9 million and raised its domestic total to $116.8 million.
