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...Where the Wild Things Are, $32.5 million, first weekend 2. Law Abiding Citizen, $21 million, first weekend 3. Paranormal Activity, $20.2 million; $33.7 million, fourth week 4. Couples Retreat, $18 million; $63.3 million, second week 5. The Stepfather, $12.3 million, first weekend 6. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, $8.1 million; $108.3 million, fifth week 7. Zombieland, $7.8 million; $60.8 million, third week 8. Toy Story 3-D and Toy Story 2 3-D, $3 million; $28.6 million, third week 9. Surrogates, $1.9 million; $36.3 million, fourth week 10. The Invention of Lying, $1.9 million; $ 15.5 million, third week
...Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, which on the previous four weekends had ranked in the top three spots and on Oct. 15 cracked $100 million at the North American box office. It's an open question whether the Jonze movie can show those steady legs, but for now, Wild Things is making Warner Bros.'s heart sing...
...when his wife and daughter are murdered in front of him, is transformed into an evil genius, terrorizing assistant D.A. Jamie Foxx and the rest of Philadelphia with murders of a scheming, Saw-like sadism. Saddled with a scathing 16% score from the "top critics" monitored on Rotten Tomatoes (Wild Things nabbed a gentleman's 68%), Citizen won audiences on star quality and the movie marketplace's lack of other adult-themed melodrama - read: crap for grownups. Younger viewers in search of shivers had already lined up for Paranormal Activity, which now stands a fair chance of breaking out from...
Every director of the top three pictures scored personal bests. Wild Things made 44% more in a weekend than what either of Jonze's previous two features, Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, earned in their entire runs. (Mind you, Wild Things cost a lot more: at least $80 million.) Law Abiding Citizen had the highest per-screen average of any film directed by F. Gary Gray. Oren Peli is a first-time auteur, but since he made Paranormal Activity in 2006 for a laughably low $11,000, he could boast that his movie made back more than twice its budget...
Those are healthy numbers, in miniature, but none of these bijou entries could compete with paranormal ghosts, Gerard Butler's blood lust or Spike Jonze's call to "Let the wild rumpus start...