For the third straight week, American moviegoers have made Ben Stiller’s CGI comedy “Night at the Museum” the top flick of the week, raking in a cool $24 mil for a grand daddy total of $164 in just three weeks of release. Meanwhile, the sappy Will Smith starrer “Pursuit of Happyness” is still doing strong business with $13 mil in its 4th week of release, for a total of $124 (and probably an Oscar nomination for Smith). The sci-fi actioner “Children of Men” came in third with $10 mil, the manipulative junk “Freedom Writers” managed $9 mil, and “Dreamgirls” dreamt up $8 mil in its 4th week of release.
The rest of the box office breaks down as such:
| This Wk | Last Wk | Title | Dist. | Weekend Gross | Cumulative Gross |
Rlse Wks |
# of Theaters |
| 1 | 1 | Night at the Museum | 20th Century Fox Distribution, 20th Century Fox International | $24,000,000 | $164,097,000 | 3 | 3730 |
| 2 | 2 | The Pursuit of Happyness | Sony Pictures Releasing | $13,000,000 | $124,159,000 | 4 | 3027 |
| 3 | 22 | Children of Men | Universal Pictures Distribution | $10,295,000 | $11,902,000 | 2 | 1209 |
| 4 | - | Freedom Writers | Paramount Pictures | $9,705,000 | $9,705,000 | 1 | 1360 |
| 5 | 3 | Dreamgirls | Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks SKG | $8,825,000 | $54,484,000 | 4 | 852 |
| 6 | - | Happily N’Ever After | Lionsgate | $6,800,000 | $6,800,000 | 1 | 2381 |
| 7 | 4 | Charlotte’s Web | Paramount Pictures | $6,610,000 | $66,975,000 | 4 | 3303 |
| 8 | 5 | The Good Shepherd | Universal Pictures | $6,536,000 | $48,434,000 | 3 | 2250 |
| 9 | 6 | Rocky Balboa | MGM Distribution Company | $6,268,000 | $60,892,000 | 3 | 3018 |
| 10 | 8 | We Are Marshall | Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution | $5,135,000 | $35,425,000 | 3 | 2502 |
| 11 | - | Code Name: The Cleaner | New Line Cinema | $4,625,000 | $4,625,000 | 1 | 1736 |
| 12 | 7 | Eragon | 20th Century Fox Distribution | $4,600,000 | $66,833,000 | 4 | 2625 |
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