Ice Age: The Meltdown heated up the box office with a mammoth $70.5 million weekend, while audiences gave the cold shoulder to Sharon Stone, whose Basic Instinct 2 debuted with a paltry $3.2 million.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Ice Age sequel, from 20th Century Fox, took over the top box office spot from Universal's Inside Man, which slipped to No. 2 in its second weekend with $15.7 million, raising its 10-day total to $52.8 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. Premiering in third place was the Warner Bros. roller-skating tale ATL, starring rapper Tip Harris, which took in $12.5 million.

20th Century Fox International's animated Ice Age: The Meltdown opened at about 5,000 screens during the weekend internationally, setting new records in many markets and grossing an estimated $43.4 million. Combined with a preview in the U.K., where Meltdown rolled up $4.1 million at 479 locations, the film's international total to date registers a mighty $47.5 million. With its domestic opening-weekend gross of $70.5 million, the sequel to 2002's Ice Age already has surpassed the $118 million mark globally. Meltdown's international premiere eclipsed that of the most recent international boxoffice powerhouse, Buena Vista International's "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," which bowed Dec. 9 and pulled about $42 million with 2,800 prints working in 13 markets. Narnia drew an estimated $3.5 million in its latest weekend, pushing its international cume-to-date to $436 million.

Ice Age: The Meltdown was released March 31st, 2006 and stars Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Seann William Scott, Josh Peck, Queen Latifah, Will Arnett, Jay Leno. The film is directed by Carlos Saldanha.