Rank
Title
Weekend
Gross
Cumulative
Gross
Weeks in Release
1
 The Interpreter
$22,800,000

$22,800,000
1
2
 The Amityville Horror
$14,200,000

$43,800,000
2
3
 Sahara

$9,000,000

$48,900,000
3
4
 A Lot Like Love
$7,700,000

$7,700,,000
1
5
 Kung Fu Hustle
$7,300,000

$8,000,000
3
6
 Fever Pitch
$5,400,000

$31,400,000
3
7
 Sin City

$3,700,000

$67,200,000
4
8
 Guess Who
$3,500,000
$62,400,000
5
9
 Robots
$3,300,000
$120,200,000
7
10
 King’s Ransom
$2,200,000
$2,200,000
1
Though his Jeff Spicoli days are but a distant memory, people are willing to pay for Sean Penn in super-serious mode as well (though having Nicole Kidman in the movie probably doesn’t hurt), and The Interpreter translates to Number 1.   The remake of The Amityville Horror slides to second but still scares out a healthy profit margin for Michael Bay’s production company.

Either the new romcon A Lot Like Love was underpromoted, or it suffered from Ashton Kutcher overexposure as he’s still hanging around on the chart with Guess Who. The same can’t be said of Anthony Anderson, whose comedy King’s Ransom made nothing remotely resembling such. With its first week in wide release, Kung Fu Hustle kicked up a surprising amount of cash for a subtitled chopsockey flick with a star who’s relatively unknown in the US.

Next weekend brings us that much closer to summer with the adaptation of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and the excessively loud Ice Cube actioner XXX: State of the Union.