Rank
Title
Weekend
Gross
Cumulative
Gross
Weeks in
Release
1
Night at the Museum
$37,800,000
$116,855,000
2
2
 The Pursuit of Happyness
$19,300,000
$98,346,000
3
3
 Dreamgirls
$15,500,000
$38,464,000
4
4
 Charlotte’s Web
$12,000,000
$52,858,000
3
5
$11,350,000
$48,822,000
2
6
$11,245,000
$35,311,000
2
7
Eragon
$8,475,000
$56,689,000
3
8
$8,025,000
$25,063,000
2
9
Happy Feet
$7,835,000
$176,152,000
7
10
 The Holiday
$6,780,000
$50,011,000
 4

Another weekend, another sausage block by Ben Stiller and his pals at the historical repository. Night at the Museum continued to slap away the tender nethers of all newcomers as it lured families and their combined $37 million in disposable income this weekend. Now in its second week, Night at the Museum has easily cleared well over $100 million ($116 million as of this writing) in the time it took America to bore of weepy sports pictures and send We are Marshall to 8.

On the other hand, America didn’t tire of weepy business pictures as The Pursuit of Happyness kept its aspirational choppers embedded firmly in the ass of the number two spot. And number three? Dreamgirls jumped to a wider release thanks to Jennifer Hudson and crew and took the bronze while punching Rocky Balboa straight in the yapper. Rocky promptly tripped and fell over Charlotte’s Web, Wilbur and Dakota Fanning, landing ass first into the number five spot as the girl and her good-for-nothing-pig (It’s the Spider, you idiots! It’s the Spider!) stole number four.

The Good Shephard, Eragon, We Are Marshall, Happy Feet and The Holiday rounded out the top ten, in that very order.

As for the religiously maligned Black Christmas, apathy
strung it up in razor wired Christmas lights and stabbed it
mercilessly before letting it finish out the weekend at number 13. That’ll learn them studios to drop slasher movies amidst the glutinous pandemonium of December 25th.

As for all the other releases of the week, several critically acclaimed films (including Children of Men, Miss Potter, Perfume- The Story of a Murderer and Pan’s Labyrinth) officially opened but, as is typical for limited engagements and reward eligibility releases, missed the top 10.