LOS ANGELES, (AP) – The Toy Story 3 gang and Adam Sandler are finding plenty of playmates at movie theaters. Tom Cruise is not so popular, though.

The Disney-Pixar Animation smash Toy Story 3 remained the No 1 film with $59 million in its second weekend, raising its domestic total to $226.6 million, according to studio estimates yesterday.

Sandler’s Grown Ups debuted at No 2 with a healthy $41 million. Released by Sony, the comedy costarring Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider did well despite a thrashing from critics.

Cruise’s thriller Knight and Day fizzled at No 3 with $20.5 million. It was the worst result for a Cruise action flick in 20 years and a sign that audiences still have not forgiven him for erratic behavior a few years back, which included his couch-jumping incident on Oprah Winfrey’s show.

“He’s one of the biggest stars of all time, but no question, this has impacted him,” said Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com.

Reviews were fair for Knight and Day, which features Cruise as a charming spy who finds romance with a civilian (Cameron Diaz) on a globe-trotting adventure. Yet distributor 20th Century Fox could not pull in a big audience despite a heavy marketing push that included sneak-peak screenings a week earlier and a Wednesday debut designed to build fan buzz for opening weekend.

Since Wednesday, Knight and Day has taken in $27.8 million. It added $12.6 million in 12 overseas markets, but the movie has a long road ahead to recoup a production budget of around $107 million.

Playing in 4,028 theatres, Toy Story 3 maintained a strong average of $14,647 a cinema. That compared to an average of $11,602 in 3,534 theaters for Grown Ups and $6,617 in 3,098 cinemas for Knight and Day.

Even so, Chris Aronson, head of domestic distribution for 20th Century Fox, said the studio was happy with the results.

At the height of the Cruise backlash four years ago – sparked by odd behavior including rants about Scientology and his couch-bouncing proclamation of devotion to Katie Holmes – his Mission: Impossible III debuted with $47.7 million, well over twice the take for Knight and Day.

After just 10 days in theatres, Toy Story 3 is about to hurtle beyond Shrek Forever After, now at $229.3 million after five weeks in theatres, to become the year’s top-grossing animated movie. Though $300 million blockbusters Iron Man 2 and Alice in Wonderland had bigger opening weekends, Toy Story 3 now is outpacing both and could be on track to become the year’s biggest hit.

Overall business was down again as Hollywood lapsed back into a box office slide that persisted from May into early June. Summer revenues are at $1.7 billion, down 5 percent from the record pace of 2009, while attendance is off nearly 11 percent, according to Hollywood.com.

Business should rebound as The Twilight Saga: Eclipse opens Wednesday for the Fourth of July weekend, one of the year’s busiest times at theaters.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theatres, according to Hollywood.com. Final figures will be released today.