The box office was dominated over the weekend by the Planet of the Apes, making this the second weekend in a row that the film has taken center stage among summer moviegoers.

The movie, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes took on heavy competition from movies like The Purge: Anarchy, but still brought in $36 million to become the top movie.

The movie has been so popular that Planet of the Apes 3, which is rumored to be called simply Planet of the Apes, will be released July 29, 2016.

The third movie is expected to be about three astronauts who are caught in a time vortex and end up on an earth with a highly advanced species of apes. It's expected to resemble the plot of the original "Planet of the Apes" from the late 1960s. 

This year's success, "Planet of the Apes 2", reportedly cost around $170 million to make and looks well on its way to making a profit.  It has also benefited from mainly positive reviews at the box office.

As the Wall Street Journal notes about the latest "Apes" movie (in a review that gave the film perfect points), it's an adventure film that pulls the view in.

"The film forges ahead, in vivid 3-D, with such energy, expertise and thunderous conviction that you readily accept its basic premise - the pell-mell emergence of great intelligence, plus moral awareness, in primitive bodies - and find yourself exactly where the filmmakers want you to be, swinging giddily between sympathy for the apes and the humans in what threatens to become all-out war," the Journal wrote.

An amateur reviewer on the website metacritic.com gave the film a perfect 10 rating. "Nothing, absolutely nothing, in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes falls short of being amazing. An emotionally heavy and truly moving film, Dawn is an absolute marvel of modern science fiction, building upon the strong and unmovable foundations Rise of the Planet of the Apes had left earlier.  

The Guardian newspaper humorously surmises what sequel installments could last for 10 more films in the "Apes" movie saga which could be. "The straighter summer blockbuster War on the Planet of the Apes will lead, neatly, to Annihilation of the Planet of the Apes. After that, completing a circle, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 2 will start the story afresh. At this point the franchise should need reinvigorating, and a trendy director can be brought in to catch everybody off-guard with a film called, simply, Apes. Or Planet."