Lionsgate’s remake of 1999’s “Bangkok Dangerous” ruled the box office on Sunday with $2.7 million.

Paramount-DreamWorks' “Tropic Thunder,” which held the No. 1 spot at the box office the past three weekends, eventually dropped to No. 2 on Friday, with $2.1 million. It managed to gross a total of $91.4 million.

Anna Faris’s comedy “House Bunny,” about a Playboy Bunny who is dumped for being too old for a bunny at the age of 27, occupied the third place, $32.8 million.

“The Dark Knight” was in the fourth spot, maintaining its position in the chart’s top five with gains of $1.4 million.

The top 5 closed with Overture’s “Traitor,” which earned $1.3 million in its second Friday.

The box office winner, which features Nicolas Cage and is a new version of the Pang brothers' original Thai film, was played in 2,650 theaters and has little in common with the film’s original plot. The two movies share a title, directors and character names, that’s all.

Nicolas Cage plays Joe, a stoic assassin who wants to quit his difficult job, but accepts one last mission before retiring. He has to travel to Bangkok to hit four targets for a criminal syndicate, but he begins to have conscience problems and becomes more sensitive when he meets beautiful and deaf Fon, a pharmacist. The fact that one of his potential victims actually is a noble reformer also troubles him.

The film, it surely provides you with a rush of adrenaline, but the story is quite predictable and it probably won’t be too much heard of at the Oscars.

It is rated R for violence, nudity and profanity.