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...rental assistance, among the biggest-ticket items alone. And that doesn't even include the share of the $62.5 billion in tax breaks available to the poor through the cut in withholding taxes; the Making Work Pay program, which gives tax breaks to wage earners; and the extension of COBRA health-insurance benefits...
...Final Destination, $28.3 million, first weekend 2. Inglourious Basterds, $20 million; $73.8 million, second week 3. Halloween 2, $17.4 million, first weekend 4. District 9, $10.7 million; $90.8 million, third week 5. G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra, $8 million; $132.4 million, fourth week 6. Julie & Julia, $7.4 million; $71 million, fourth week 7. The Time Traveler's Wife, $6.7 million; $48.1 million, third week 8. Shorts, $4.9 million; $13.6 million, second week 9. Taking Woodstock, $3.7 million, first weekend; $3.8 million, first five days 10. G-Force, $2.8 million; $111.8 million, sixth week
Instead, District 9 made a triumphant invasion of North American theaters, pulling in an otherworldly $37 million (according to early studio estimates) and winning the weekend by outgrossing the previous box-office champ, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, by nearly $15 million. The results, which far exceeded industry expectations, instantly turns Blomkamp, the 29-year-old from Johannesburg, into the new prince of a town 10,000 miles away. Hollywood loves a guy who makes a smart, popular movie that in three days earns considerably more than its skimpy $30 million budget. Already the town is whispering its favorite...
...Rise of Cobra, $22.5 million; $98.8 million, second week...
...looking for the late-summer special-effects action fantasy with big franchise potential, forget about G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. (You already forgot? Fine.) Instead, proceed directly to District 9, a grimy little scare-fi thriller from South Africa, hitherto unknown as a production center for really cool movies. The picture bears the imprimatur of another gifted outsider, Peter Jackson, who with The Lord of the Rings made New Zealand his own little Hollywood. But the real star is director and co-writer Neill Blomkamp, 29, who proves with his first feature that no genre is so tarnished...