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'Superbad' boys top US box office
2007-08-28
Teen sex comedy "Superbad" topped the box office in North America for the second weekend running, beating out competition from a string of action films, final figures showed Monday. The movie, from the creator of hit comedies "The 40-year-old Virgin" and "Knocked Up," raked in 18 million dollars over three days in its second weekend in theatres, according to box office tracker Exhibitor Relations. The comedy, directed by Greg Mottola, stars Jonah Hill and Michael Cera as two nerdy school buddies desperately determined to score with girls. Two action flicks went toe-to-toe for for second place: spy thriller "The Bourne Ultimatum" with 12.5 million dollars pipped Jackie Chan's cop caper "Rush Hour 3," which took 11.7 million. British comic Rowan Atkinson took fourth place with "Mr Bean's Holiday," which took 9.9 million on its opening weekend. The latest feature sees the oddball character traveling in France. Two other new releases followed in fifth and sixth place. High-octane fight-fest "War," a revenge tale that sees Chinese Triad gangsters squaring up to the Japanese Yakuza, took 9.8 million dollars. Behind it came "The Nanny Diaries," the Scarlett Johansson comedy about a working class nanny thrust into the uber-rich culture of Manhattan's Upper East Side, that has been compared to "The Devil Wears Prada." The new release took 7.5 million. The first big-screen adventures of America's most dysfunctional animated family, "The Simpsons Movie," took 4.3 million dollars to rank seventh in its fifth week of release. In eighth place with 3.9 million was "Stardust," a fantasy drama featuring Robert DeNiro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Claire Danes and Peter O'Toole. "Hairspray," a makeover of the Broadway musical with John Travolta dancing in high heels as Edna Turnblad, fell to ninth with 3.3 million. Science-fiction thriller "The Invasion," starring Nicole Kidman as a psychiatrist who discovers an alien epidemic, slipped to 10th place with 3.1 million dollars. Trailing were Disney's "Underdog," in 11th with 2.5 million dollars, and "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," in 12th (2.4 million).
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