‘The Dark Knight’ stays No. 1 at box office
LOS ANGELES - "The Dark Knight" once again cast its tall shadow over the competition at the box office, reaching the $300 million mark in a record 10 days.
The latest Batman movie, featuring the late Heath Ledger as the Joker, took six fewer days than the 2006 blockbuster "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest" to pull in $300 million.
The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Media By Numbers LLC:
1. "The Dark Knight," Warner Bros., $75,166,466, 4,366 locations, $17,216 average, $313,781,677, two weeks.
2. "Step Brothers," Sony, $30,940,732, 3,094 locations, $10,000 average, $30,940,732, one week.
3. "Mamma Mia!" Universal, $17,746,725, 2,990 locations, $5,935 average, $62,595,465, two weeks.
4. "The X-Files: I Want to Believe," Fox, $10,021,753, 3,185 locations, $3,147 average, $10,021,753, one week.
5. "Journey to the Center of the Earth," Warner Bros., $9,717,217, 2,688 locations, $3,615 average, $60,487,455, three weeks.
6. "Hancock," Sony, $8,311,123, 3,309 locations, $2,512 average, $206,482,007, four weeks.
7. "Wall-E," Disney, $6,422,186, 3,044 locations, $2,110 average, $195,308,076, five weeks.
8. "Hellboy 2: the Golden Army," Universal, $5,100,305, 3,018 locations, $1,690 average, $66,059,925, three weeks.
9. "Space Chimps," Fox, $4,536,838, 2,538 locations, $1,788 average, $16,167,380, two weeks.
10. "Wanted," Universal, $2,738,550, 1,754 locations, $1,561 average, $128,627,405, five weeks.
11. "Get Smart," Warner Bros., $2,272,394, 1,420 locations, $1,600 average, $124,186,385, six weeks.
12. "Kung Fu Panda," Paramount, $1,055,932, 917 locations, $1,152 average, $208,997,686, eight weeks.
13. "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl," Picturehouse, $601,888, 535 locations, $1,125 average, $15,275,168, six weeks.
14. "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," Paramount, $570,774, 477 locations, $1,197 average, $313,646,685, 10 weeks.
15. "Sex and the City," Warner Bros., $447,444, 347 locations, $1,289 average, $150,841,566, nine weeks.
16. "The Incredible Hulk," Universal, $423,150, 403 locations, $1,050 average, $132,541,330, seven weeks.
17. "Tell No One," Music Box, $421,821, 77 locations, $5,478 average, $1,653,434, four weeks.
18. "You Don’t Mess With the Zohan," Sony, $385,400, 224 locations, $1,721 average, $98,319,368, eight weeks.
19. "Meet Dave," Fox, $381,469, 488 locations, $782 average, $10,839,801, three weeks.
20. "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian," Disney, $372,519, 322 locations, $1,157 average, $140,117,978, 11 weeks.
