The Game Plan wins again
2007-10-08 12:08
Los Angeles - The Game Plan, a family comedy about a professional athlete who discovers he has a daughter from an old relationship, won over the North American box office for a second week, preliminary figures showed on Sunday.
The comedy, starring former pro-wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Madison Pettis as his seven-year-old daughter, took in $16.2m, according to figures from industry tracker Exhibitor Relations.
Opening in second place was the Ben Stiller comedy The Heartbreak Kid, which pulled in $14m.
The Kingdom, a thriller starring Jamie Foxx who plays an FBI agent leading the hunt for terrorists in Saudi Arabia, was in third place, pulling in $9.4m.
Fourth place, pulling in just over $4m, was Resident Evil: Extinction, the latest in the gorey series of spin-offs from the popular video game, featuring flesh-eating zombies and supermodel Milla Jovovich.
Jennifer Lopez
The weekend's two other debuts also did poorly: The Seeker: The Dark is Rising opened fifth at $3.7m, better than Feel The Noise, a reggaeton dance flick produced by Jennifer Lopez which opened seventh, pulling in $3.4m.
The weekend's sixth highest earner was Good Luck Chuck, a sex comedy starring Jessica Alba, which took $3.5m.
The critically acclaimed remake of western 3:10 to Yuma was eight with $3m, while a pistol-packing Jodie Foster in New York revenge flick The Brave One came in ninth with $2.2m.
Mr Woodcock, a low-brow comedy starring Billy Bob Thornton as a sadistic gym teacher, was in 10th place, pulling in $2.05m.
- AFP