Disturbia Tops Once Again
Shia LaBeouf does it again as his movie "Disturbia" won this weekend's box-office battle, which were filled with murder thrillers this time around.
DreamWorks and Paramount's "Disturbia," starring LaBeouf, plays as a teen who suspects his neighbor of committing murder, but no one believes him because of his troubled run-ins with the law. "Disturbia" banked $13.5 million to hold the top weekend movie spot for the second straight weekend now, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Thus far, the 10-day box office total for "Disturbia" has already reached an impressive total of an estimated $40.7 million, which is said to be roughly double what it actually cost to construct the movie.
Coming in a close second, was New Line Cinema's "Fracture" starring Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling debuted at No. 2 with $11.2 million. In the film, Hopkins plays a cunning defendant accused of murdering his disloyal wife, with Gosling co-starring as the prosecutor.
DreamWorks and Paramount's hilarious figure-skating comedy "Blades of Glory," starring funnyman Will Ferrell and Jon Heder, came in No. 3 in the box office with racking in $7.8 million in its fourth weekend. The film has brought in over $100 million since its release.
Sony Screen Gems' thriller flick "Vacancy," starring Kate Beckinsale and Luke Wilson as a troubled and on the edge of divorce couple, who end up being marked for a gruesome death at a grubby motel, opened at No. 4 with $7.6 million.
The British cop comedy "Hot Fuzz," released by Focus Features' Rogue Pictures unit, premiered at No. 6 with $5.8 million.
"Hot Fuzz" comes from the "Shaun of the Dead" team of director Edgar Wright and his co-writer and star Simon Pegg, who plays a London super-cop exiled to a sleepy British town, where he encounters a series of grisly deaths.
The following month should be a good one for movie goers as flicks such as "Spider-Man 3" and "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" are right around the corner.
