Sixteen-year old teen superstar Miley Cyrus scored another number one film after Walt Disney’s “Hannah Montana: The Movie” soared to the top of weekend’s box office with $34 million in ticket sales. Last year, Cyrus’ 3-D concert film also topped the tills.

“Hannah Montana” chronicles the life of an ordinary teenager who’s also living another life as pop star Hannah.

The film got $17.3 million of ticket sales on Friday alone, the biggest opening day figures for a G-rated film.

Most of the moviegoers are girls aged 12 and below, accompanied by their mothers.

Last week’s top drawer “Fast & Furious” fell to second place with still strong performance orf $28.8 million. The street-racing hit raised its sales to $118 million in U.S. alone.

Here’s the list of top ten films last weekend:

1. “Hannah Montana: The Movie,” $34 million.
2. “Fast & Furious,” $28.8 million.
3. “Monsters vs. Aliens,” $22.6 million.
4. “Observe and Report,” $11.1 million.
5. “Knowing,” $6.7 million.

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“Hannah Montana” star Miley Cyrus downplayed allegations that she mocked Asians in a photograph which showed the teen star stretching the corners of her eyes. In her official website, Cyrus wrote that she simply made a goofy face and was not making fun of any ethnicity.

In the photograph, Cyrus and five friends squinted their eyes while one Asian man sitting next to the tween star seemed to not participate in the group pose.

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A writer reportedly filed a lawsuit today at the Los Angeles County Superior Court, claiming that he was the brains behind the successful Disney series “Hannah Montana.”

Richard Fronduto claimed that he wrote a script for “The Secret Life of Sindi” which was renamed to “The Family Business” way back in 1990 and this idea was pitched in by his agent to Disney.

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