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So goes Jamie Lynn Spears, so goes the box office.
Juno, the indie comedy about a with-child high schooler, reigned for a second week as the biggest, pound-for-pound, wide-release movie in the top 10, per final studio tallies compiled Monday by Exhibitor Relations.
The records show Nicolas Cage's National Treasure: Book of Secrets made the most money: $20.1 million, bringing its three-weekend total to a mammoth $170.9 million. But the stats also show no movie on 600 plus screens made more money, per theater, than Juno.
The film, starring Best Actress Oscar contender Ellen Page, pulled in $8,239 from each of its 1,925 screens, compared to Book of Secrets' $5,333. All told, Juno grossed $15.9 million, putting it in second place and pushing its overall take to $51.7 million. All this, for a low-tech, high-wit movie reportedly produced for just $2.5 million.
Juno's breakthrough--business was up 49 percent from last weekend--came as the little movie got a big push, adding more than 900 theaters.
Will Smith's I Am Legend ($15.7 million) couldn't hold off the pesky Juno for second despite playing at more than 3,600 theaters. With a cumulative gross now at $228.1 million, the sci-fi remake stands as Smith's biggest career hit since 1997's Men in Black.
Elsewhere, Alvin and the Chipmunks (fourth place, $15.5 million; $176.3 million) continued to put behind it the wreckage of the rodent band's last big-screen outing, 1987's The Chipmunk Adventure.
The new thriller One Missed Call rang up a solid $12.5 million (fifth place), presumably to the displeasure of cell-phone providers that would have preferred to not have their products associated with untimely death.
Johnny Depp's Sweeney Todd (ninth place, $5.5 million) is just not going to be this winter's Dreamgirls. Its $38.6 million overall take makes it seem more like 2005's Rent, which failed to spark at either the box office or the Oscar ballot box.
Atonement, the leading nominee at the formerly starry affair known as the Golden Globes, moved back into the top 10. Showing at 583 theaters, the R-rated period piece grossed $5.1 million ($19.2 million overall) for a better-than-Juno average of $8,687.
No film made more money in limited release, however, than Paul Thomas Anderson's love-it or hate-it There Will Be Blood, which, comparatively speaking, made a mint: $1.3 million from 49 theaters, for a per-screen average of $26,216. Overall, the critical favorite has pulled in $1.8 million after two weekends.
Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman's critically maligned The Bucket List ($315,000; $1.8 million overall) remained at 16 theaters, and, apparently, at the right 16 theaters. Its $25,905 per-screen average was second only to There Will Be Blood's.
It was time to play taps for Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem ($4.5 million; $37.1 million overall), which saw business nosedive 55 percent, and fell out of the top 10 after only one week.
At this point, Denzel Washington would take a one-week run in the top 10 for The Great Debaters ($4.3 million; $22 million overall), which failed to crack the upper echelon for the second straight weekend. Worse, the movie played at 119 more theaters this weekend than last, but rang up nearly one-third fewer sales.
Here's a recap of the top-grossing weekend films based on final Friday-Sunday figures compiled by Exhibitor Relations:
- National Treasure: Book of Secrets, $20.1 million
- Juno, $15.9 million
- I Am Legend, $15.7 million
- Alvin and the Chipmunks, $15.5 million
- One Missed Call, $12.5 million
- Charlie Wilson's War, $8.1 million
- P.S. I Love You, $7.8 million
- The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep, $6.2 million
- Sweeney Todd, $5.5 million
- Atonement, $5.1 million
(Originally published Jan. 6, 2008 at 4:31 p.m. PT.)
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