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Vampire flick puts the bite on North America box office
2007-10-21
"30 Days of Night," with its vampire gang attack on Alaska in dead of winter's night, put the bite on this weekend's North America box office competition, preliminary figures showed Sunday. The Sony horror flick netted 16 million dollars from Friday to Sunday in its opening at US and Canadian movie theaters, said box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations. Shunted to second place, with 12.1 million dollars, was director Tyler Perry's comedy-drama "Why Did I Get Married?" starring pop singer Janet Jackson. Walt Disney's football comedy "The Game Plan" took third place with 8.1 million dollars. The movie has netted more than 69 million since its opening four weeks ago. "Michael Clayton," a critically acclaimed thriller starring George Clooney, who plays a conflicted in-house "fixer" at one of the largest New York corporate law firms, was fourth with 7.1 million. Ben Affleck's "Gone, Baby Gone," about a child kidnapping in Boston, opened to a dismal fifth place, taking in a paltry six million dollars. An equally disappointing opening placed football comedy "The Comebacks" in sixth place, with 5.8 million dollars. Seventh place, with 5.5 million, went to family crime saga "We Own The Night", starring Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg as two brothers caught up in a New York drugs war. Tim Burton's 3-D re-release of "The Nightmare Before Christmas" was eighth with 5.1 million dollars, followed by South African Gavin Hood's "Rendition," about the CIA's secret prisons outside the United States, which took in 4.2 million in its opening weekend. Ben Stiller's romantic comedy "The Heartbreak Kid", about a dream marriage turning into a nightmare, took tenth place with 7.3 million, netting 32.1 million since it opened three weeks ago.
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