MUMBAI: Leonardo DiCaprio starrer Inception opened big with $60.4 million intake at the box-office and top spotted the weekend box-office in the US.

Strong reviews helped "Inception," which stars DiCaprio as leader of a team that normally breaks into people‘s dreams to steal their secrets.

The Warner Bros. film about a team that sneaks into people‘s dreams becomes DiCaprio‘s biggest opening weekend topping his previous best of $41.1 million of Shutter Island.

But Inception fell far short of director Christopher Nolan‘s The Dark Knight that had opened in the same weekend two years ago and grossed $158.4 million.

Warner Bros. has carved out a niche with this particular mid-July weekend. The studio followed The Dark Knight with a $77.8 million opening of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince over the same weekend last year.

The final Harry Potter film debuts on the same weekend next summer while Warner plans to release Nolan‘s third film Batman over the same weekend two years from now.