Jodie Foster drew in a largely female crowd as Warner Bros' revenge thriller The Brave One opened top on an estimated $14m.
Foster, in her first lead role since Flightplan in 2005, stars as a radio host who turns vigilante after she is nearly beaten to death. Neil Jordan directed and Joel Silver produced.
Lionsgate's Western remake 3:10 To Yuma slipped to second on $9.2m for
$28.5m, while New Line's comedy Mr Woodcock with Billy Bob Thornton,
Seann William Scott and Susan Sarandon opened third on $9.1m.
The South Korean action romp D-War (aka Dragon Wars) was a massive hit
in its native country earlier this year but will struggle to make much of a theatrical mark here on the basis of its fourth place debut on $5.4m, despite the Los Angeles setting.
Elsewhere Sony's high school comedy Superbad raised its solid tally to $11.3m in the fifth weekend and ranks fifth, while Halloween limped past $50m for MGM and finished sixth.
Eastern Promises, David Cronenberg's latest feature that just won the Cadillac People's Choice award at Toronto, opened well on 15 screens to gross $552,000, which translates into approximately $36,800 per screen. The tale of Russian mobsters in London expands wide next weekend.
There were two other notable limited launches: Warner Independent Pictures' war drama In The Valley OF Elah with Tommy Lee Jones and Charlize Theron grossed $138,000 from nine, while Sony's musical Across The Universe starring Evan Rachel Wood and Jim Sturgess took $685,000 on less than 25.
Next weekend's wide releases are Sony's Resident Evil: Extinction starring Milla Jovovich as the zombie hunter; Lionsgate's comedy Good Luck Chuck with Jessica Alba and Dane Cook; and Universal's comedy Sydney White starring Amanda Bynes.
Estimated Top 10 North America Sept 14-16, 2007
Film (Dist)/Int'l dist/Est wkd gross/Est total to date
1 (-) The Brave One (Warner Bros) WBPI $14m -
2 (1) 3:10 To Yuma (Lionsgate) Magnetik $9.2m $28.5m
3 (-) Mr Woodcock (New Line) NLI $9.1m -
4 (-) D-War (Freestyle Releasing) Young-gu Art $5.4m -
5 (3) Superbad (Sony) SPRI $5.2m $111.3m
6 (2) Halloween (MGM) The Weinstein Company $5m $51.3m
7 (5) The Bourne Ultimatum (Universal) UPI $4.2m $216.2m
8 (6) Balls Of Fury (Rogue) Focus Features Int'l $3.34m $28.9m
9 (7) Rush Hour 3 (New Line) NLI $3.33m $133.2m
10 (8) Mr Bean's Holiday (Universal) UPI $2.7m $28.5m
Foster, in her first lead role since Flightplan in 2005, stars as a radio host who turns vigilante after she is nearly beaten to death. Neil Jordan directed and Joel Silver produced.
Lionsgate's Western remake 3:10 To Yuma slipped to second on $9.2m for
$28.5m, while New Line's comedy Mr Woodcock with Billy Bob Thornton,
Seann William Scott and Susan Sarandon opened third on $9.1m.
The South Korean action romp D-War (aka Dragon Wars) was a massive hit
in its native country earlier this year but will struggle to make much of a theatrical mark here on the basis of its fourth place debut on $5.4m, despite the Los Angeles setting.
Elsewhere Sony's high school comedy Superbad raised its solid tally to $11.3m in the fifth weekend and ranks fifth, while Halloween limped past $50m for MGM and finished sixth.
Eastern Promises, David Cronenberg's latest feature that just won the Cadillac People's Choice award at Toronto, opened well on 15 screens to gross $552,000, which translates into approximately $36,800 per screen. The tale of Russian mobsters in London expands wide next weekend.
There were two other notable limited launches: Warner Independent Pictures' war drama In The Valley OF Elah with Tommy Lee Jones and Charlize Theron grossed $138,000 from nine, while Sony's musical Across The Universe starring Evan Rachel Wood and Jim Sturgess took $685,000 on less than 25.
Next weekend's wide releases are Sony's Resident Evil: Extinction starring Milla Jovovich as the zombie hunter; Lionsgate's comedy Good Luck Chuck with Jessica Alba and Dane Cook; and Universal's comedy Sydney White starring Amanda Bynes.
Estimated Top 10 North America Sept 14-16, 2007
Film (Dist)/Int'l dist/Est wkd gross/Est total to date
1 (-) The Brave One (Warner Bros) WBPI $14m -
2 (1) 3:10 To Yuma (Lionsgate) Magnetik $9.2m $28.5m
3 (-) Mr Woodcock (New Line) NLI $9.1m -
4 (-) D-War (Freestyle Releasing) Young-gu Art $5.4m -
5 (3) Superbad (Sony) SPRI $5.2m $111.3m
6 (2) Halloween (MGM) The Weinstein Company $5m $51.3m
7 (5) The Bourne Ultimatum (Universal) UPI $4.2m $216.2m
8 (6) Balls Of Fury (Rogue) Focus Features Int'l $3.34m $28.9m
9 (7) Rush Hour 3 (New Line) NLI $3.33m $133.2m
10 (8) Mr Bean's Holiday (Universal) UPI $2.7m $28.5m
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