The dancing penguins managed to just edge out the new blonde Bond, as "Happy Feet" waltzed into first place at the box office with over $41 million in box office receipts, compared to "Casino Royale" with just under $41 million. It was a battle all weekend as to which film would claim the number one spot, and although the combined box office total were decent enough, overall ticket sales were down 18 percent as compared to the same time frame last year when Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire sizzled with over $102 million.
The only other new release cracking the top ten, were Freestyle Releasing's special After Dark Horrorfest, which was a weekend event in which they screened 9 new horror films at 500 theatres in the U.S.
Last weekend's full top 10 was as follows:
1) Happy Feet - $41.5 million
2) Casino Royale - $40.8 million
3) Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan - $14.6 million
4) The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause - $8.3 million
5) Stranger Than Fiction - $6.6 million
6) Flushed Away - $6.6 million
7) Saw III - $2.9 million
8) Babel - $2.9 million
9) The Departed - $2.6 million
10) After Dark Horrorfest - $2.3 million
Posters for all of the above mentioned movies are available by clicking on the links.
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