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Night at the Museum is still the hot ticket.
Earning $23.7 million Friday through Sunday, the action comedy, in which beleaguered security guard Ben Stiller deals with exhibits run amok, was the nation's number one movie for a third straight week.
With little new competition in the traditionally slow postholiday weeks, distributor Fox believes the film has a chance to make it four in a row next weekend, especially since Night at the Museum only dropped off 35 percent from last weekend. Its gross stands at $163.8 million, according to final studio figures Monday.
Remarking happily on how "fabulously it's hanging in," studio distribution executive Chris Aronson proclaims that Night at the Museum is the only film out there that "satisfyingly works for anyone from 8 to 80."
Meanwhile, only two new movies debuted in the top 10.
Freedom Writers, starring two-time Best Actress Oscar winner Hilary Swank in the true story of a tough-love inner-city teacher, had a solid showing in fourth place. Chalking up $9.4 million, the generally favorably reviewed PG-13 Paramount release averaged $6,916 at just 1,360 sites. That was higher than the $6,366 per screen for Night at the Museum, which was playing at 3,730 locations, but couldn't touch the $10,168 per screen at 852 sites for the fifth-place movie, Dreamgirls. The Oscar-hopeful musical, also a PG-13 Paramount release, tuned in $8.7 million in its fourth week.
Happily N'Ever After proved to be no Shrek. The CGI fractured fairy tale, with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. voicing the lovers and Sigourney Weaver, George Carlin, Andy Dick and Wallace Shawn in support, was plagued by lousy reviews and only rung up $6.6 million in sixth place in its opening weekend. The PG-rated Lionsgate release averaged a less than spellbinding $2,775 at 2,381 locations.
But that was still better than Cedric the Entertainer's secret-agent comedy Codename: The Cleaner, which didn't even sneak into the top 10. The PG-13 New Line crime caper, which also stars Lucy Liu, managed just $4.2 million in 12th place from a $2,445 average at 1,736 screens.
Will Smith's Pursuit of Happyness remained in second place in its fourth week. The PG-13 Sony release was down only 33 percent from last week and earned $12.9 million from a $4,255 average at 3,027 sites. The inspirational, based-on-a-true-story film has now grossed $124 million.
Moving all the way up to third from 22nd was Children of Men, the favorably reviewed political thriller based on a P.D. James novel about an ugly near future imperiled by infertility. Expanded to 1,209 sites in its third week, the R-rated Universal release, directed by Alfonso Cuarón and starring Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Caine, gained 1,935 percent to earn $10.2 million from an $8,435 average, bringing its total to $11.8 million.
Speaking of Owen, a movie that he was touted for—Casino Royale—has become the first Bond flick to gross $500 million worldwide. Looks like Daniel Craig wasn't such a bad choice, after all.
Domestically, it was a down weekend, off 1.3 percent from last weekend. But the overall box office was up a smidgen, 0.7 percent, from this time last year, according to box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations.
Here's a recap of the top-grossing films:
1. Night at the Museum, $23.7 million
2. The Pursuit of Happyness, $12.9 million
3. Children of Men, $10.2 million
4. Freedom Writers, $9.4 million
5. Dreamgirls, $8.7 million
6. Happily N'Ever After, $6.61 million
7. Charlotte's Web, $6.6 million
8. The Good Shepherd, $6.4 million
9. Rocky Balboa, $6 million
10. We Are Marshall, $4.9 million
Originally published Jan. 7, 2007 at 8:32 p.m. PT.
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