The weekend ended as expected. $60 mill for ‘Kung Fu Panda’ and $40 for ‘You Don’t Mess with the Zohan,’ the studios reported earlier today. Both DreamWorks Animation and Adam Sandler can be pleased. DreamWorks only opened higher with ‘Shrek 2′ and ‘Shrek the Third’ and Sandler had his usual $40 million opening. Nothing to be ashamed of, I’d say.

We noted how ‘Indiana Jones 4′ and ‘Sex and the City’ swapped places yesterday, and they didn’t swap back this Sunday. Indy did $6.7 million on Sunday, while ‘Sex’ grossed another $6 mill. Their totals were respectively $22.8 million and $21.3 million. A close call and I expected a higher second weekend for ‘Sex and the City,’ after it held up so well during the weekdays. Monday and Tuesday will show its definite staying power. I personally expect it to hop to the third place again, maybe even passing ‘Zohan.’

‘The Strangers’ came in last, but not least. Considering the $9 million budget, it had an amazing second weekend. It topped its budget with $9.3 million and now stands at a total of $37.5 million. This must give Liv Tyler a lot of credit at the box office.

Next week is another big one. Will ‘The Incredible Hulk’ smash into the box office? And does ‘The Happening’ even stand a chance?

Quebec wants Hollywood to explain why their movies aren’t dubbed in their country’s language. Last year, leader of Action Démocratique du Québec Mario Dumont wanted to enforce it by law, when he noticed how his kids couldn’t understand the Parisian dialect of the French ‘Shrek the Third.’ “We will ask the studios to explain to us how we can ensure, without resorting to a law, that Quebec citizens have access to versions dubbed into French in Quebec,” Pierre Curzi said.

It seems to me like a simple business reason, since Quebec only has around 7.5 million inhabitants. But Quebec is threatening with a law. “The [studios] don’t want a law, to avoid other countries adopting similar legislation,” Curzi added. “That’s legitimate, but us, we want cultural products adapted to our wishes.” It would cost studios $75,000 a film to dub them into their language. And now the Motion Picture Association of America has to explain why some studios don’t do this. It’s not too difficult to guess their answer: “money.”

While ‘Bee Movie’ didn’t manage to top its $150 million budget in the US theaters, it did manage to up the revenue for Dreamworks last quarter. The bee movie added $48.9 million to the total revenue of $156.6 million, compared to $93.7 million last year. Net income rose to $26.1 million, from $15.4 million last year.

The total for ‘Bee Movie’ now stands at $287 million at the box office, making it “barely profitable with no material impact on earnings going forward because of its high expense,” chief executive Jeffrey Katzenberg said.

‘Shrek the Third’ added $48.3 million to the quarter’s revenue with 19.8 DVDs shipped. And ‘Kung Fu Panda,’ set for June 6, is expected to drive this year’s revenue, obviously.

On another note, Katzenberg was disappointed with the current amount of screens able to show 3-D movies in the US. Producing ‘Monsters vs. Aliens’ in 3-D added a $10-$15 million to the costs, which isn’t expected to pay off now. “When you hear me talk about my disappointment, it is in the context of really trying to achieve the 5,000-plus screens installed by the time of our release,” Katzenberg said. “If these guys don’t get their act together very quickly in the next 30 days, they are not going to be able to achieve that goal.“

With currently only 1,000 screens able to show 3-D films, I don’t think anybody is expecting that to happen.