Boxing robot movie Real Steel won the domestic box office for the second straight weekend, edging a remake of 1980s dance classic Footloose.

Real Steel brought in about $16.3 million at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to studio estimates released on Sunday. The action movie starring Hugh Jackman landed slightly ahead of Footloose, which brought in an estimated $16.1 million.

Third place went to horror movie The Thing with $8.7 million.

Real Steel was produced by DreamWorks and distributed by Walt Disney Co. Footloose was released by Paramount Pictures, a unit of Viacom Inc. Universal Pictures, a unit of Comcast Corp, distributed The Thing.

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