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...they were to be seen, not just heard, on screen; that's one key to its movies' financial success. No question that the names of Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, Seth Rogen and Jackie Chan helped 2008's Kung Fu Panda reach its $60.2 million opening weekend, or that Reese Witherspoon, Rogen, Paul Rudd, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Colbert lent heft to last spring's Monsters vs Aliens ($59.3 million). Dragon's lead, Jay Baruchel, isn't yet at that level of star wattage. Audiences had to be sold on the movie by its teen-trains-a-dragon premise...
This was the third consecutive week boasting a movie with a nerdish hero, as Dragon followed She's Out of My League (which finished sixth this weekend, with a total gross of $25.6 million), and Diary of a Wimpy Kid (in fifth place, with $35.8 million). Indeed, several of the guys in the other new wide release, Hot Tub Time Machine, fit the underachieving mold. The lurid, inspired title aside, fans of late-night soft-core woo-pitching will be disappointed to learn that the four people in the hot tub at the beginning of the film are all guys...
What is so-so for Hollywood pictures would be wowee for independent films. Chloe, the weekend's sole medium-size release, earned $1 million in 350 theaters. A sexual melodrama offering the glory of hot-sheets action between Amanda Seyfried and Julianne Moore, Chloe will never get near the numbers of a well-promoted movie from a major studio. Nor will Noah Baumbach's Greenberg, a potential-breakout romance that won a sheaf of favorable reviews and has an actual movie star, Ben Stiller, in the title role; it took in $1.1 million on 181 screens. The Runaways, starring Dakota...
Here are the weekend's top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo...
...Train Your Dragon, $43.3 million, first weekend 2. Alice in Wonderland, $17.3 million; $293 million, fourth week 3. Hot Tub Time Machine, $13.7 million, first weekend ?4. The Bounty Hunter, $12.4 million, $38.8 million, second week 5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, $10 million; $35.8 million, second week ?6. She's Out of My League, $3.5 million; $25.6 million, third week 7. Green Zone, $3.4 million; $30.4 million, third week 8. Shutter Island, $3.2 million; $120.6 million, sixth week 9. Repo Men, $3 million; $11.3 million, second week 10. Our Family Wedding, $2.2 million; $16.8 million, third week...