Sam Worthington has slashed through hostile reviews to score another record haul at the North American box office.

Worthington’s new on-screen adventure, Clash Of The Titans, earned a bumper $US61.4 million ($67 million) in US theatres on the weekend to break the record for the biggest Easter opening for a film.

The record haul continues the West Australian actor’s golden run in Hollywood after Avatar’s all-time record box office of more than $US2.5 billion worldwide.

Toss in the $US370 million last year’s Terminator Salvation earned at the global box office and Worthington has become one of the Hollywood studio system’s most bankable stars.

Unlike Avatar, most leading US critics gave Clash Of The Titans brutal reviews.

“The film is a sham, with good actors going for the pay and using beards and heavy make-up to hide their shame,” wrote Rolling Stone critic Peter Travers, giving Titans just one star out of four.

Ty Burr of the Boston Globe said: “The ancient Greek playwright Euripides wrote, ‘The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children’. That’s possibly the only explanation for the remake of Clash Of The Titans.”

But the reviews obviously did not deter filmgoers.

Titans easily trumped the previous record for an Easter film opening in North America, Scary Movie 4′s $US40.2 million ($A43.8 million) in 2006.

Titan’s box office haul was helped by higher ticket prices for 3D screenings.

The film was shot in 2D but later converted to 3D.

American filmmaker Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too? came in at number two at the North American box office with $US30.2 million, while animated family film How To Train Your Dragon was third with $US29.2 million.