This Weekend’s Top 5 at the North American Box Office

By Irene Collins
11:24, September 1st 2008
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This Weekend’s Top 5 at the North American Box Office

“Tropic Thunder,” produced by DreamWorks Pictures and released by Paramount Pictures, directed by and starring Ben Stiller, earned its third consecutive first-place in the Box-office this week. Ben Stiller’s film, also starring Tom Cruise, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. earned a total of $83.8 million. It sold about $11.5 million in U.S. and Canada throughout the current weekend according to box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations.

Newcomer “Babylon A.D” came in on the second place with a total of $9.7 million during the weekend. The film was released by 20th Century Fox and it is a sci-fi action thriller starring Vin Diesel and Michelle Yeoh.

The third place was held by the absolute star of the summer, Warner Bros.' franchise film, "The Dark Knight" with $8.8 million gained. This means that its total earnings sum up to more than $502 million. Thus it has officially become the second highest-grossing film in history after James Cameron's "Titanic."

The comedy "The House Bunny" slipped down two places, therefore occupying the fourth position for the current weekend, with $8.3 million cashed. The movie was released by Columbia Pictures and it tells the story of a Playboy Bunny thrown out of the mansion who becomes house mother in order to help the other ones after their banishment from the Playboy mansion. It stars Anna Faris and the script was written by Kirsten Smith and Karen McCullah Lutz who are also behind "Legally Blonde."

In at fifth with $7.9 million was another debut, "Traitor," with Don Cheadle as a former officer and potential international conspirator. "Traitor" was released by Overture Films.



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