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...Couples Retreat, $35.3 million, first weekend 2. Zombieland, $15 million; $47.8 million, second week 3. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, $12 million; $96.2 million, fourth week 4. Toy Story 3-D and Toy Story 2 3-D, $7.7 million; $22.7 million, second week 5. Paranormal Activity, $7.1 million; $8.2 million, third week 6. Surrogates, $4.1 million; $32.6 million, third week 7. The Invention of Lying, $3.4 million; $12.3 million, second week 8. Whip It, $2.8 million; $8.6 million, second week 9. Capitalism: A Love Story, $2.7 million; $9.1 million, third week 10. Fame, $2.6 million; $20 million, third week...
...notch. Zombieland dropped a less-than-expected 39%; the surprise CGI-animation hit Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs slipped a mere 24% to inch near the $100 million mark; and the 3-D double bill of Pixar favorites Toy Story and Toy Story 2 fell 39%. The weekend should reach a cumulative $100 million. That will leave the box office 8% ahead of last year in revenue and 4% ahead in attendance, making movies one of the few big businesses to flourish in the Great Recession. (See TIME's special report "The Voices of Pixar...
...Paranormal Activity's take of $7.1 million on 159 screens in perspective, consider the openings of two other films this weekend. Good Hair, Chris Rock's docu-comedy about Afro-American coiffure, took in $1.1 million at 186 sites; and the inspirational boxing drama From Mexico With Love gleaned a punchless $308,000 at 279 venues. In two showcase openings, the highly praised romantic comedy An Education - whose leading lady, Carey Mulligan, is virtually assured an Oscar nomination for Best Actress - earned a precocious $162,000 at four theaters; and the soccer movie The Damned United played to the equivalent...
...will keep expanding through the pre-Halloween fright season, trying to hold off other horror pictures - The Stepfather, Saw VI, The House of the Devil and Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant - at least until the last weekend of October. That's when we get the one back-from-the dead movie that won't be stopped: Michael Jackson's This...
Here are the official studio estimates for this weekend's top 10 movies at the North American box office...