The Top Movies of Wednesday, August 23, 2000

		Movie	Distributor	Genre	Gross	Change	Thtrs.	Per Thtr.	Total Gross	Days
1	(1)	The Cell	New Line	Thriller/Suspense	$1,596,268	-24.82%	2,411	$662	$23,302,875	6
2	(3)	Space Cowboys	Warner Bros.	Adventure	$818,071	-12.31%	2,835	$289	$56,356,764	20
3	(2)	The Original Kings of Comedy	Paramount Pictures	Comedy	$812,374	-13.85%	847	$959	$14,513,261	6
4	(4)	The Replacements	Warner Bros.	Comedy	$762,070	-17.92%	2,754	$277	$25,914,197	13
5	(5)	What Lies Beneath	Dreamworks SKG	Thriller/Suspense	$649,342	-22.95%	2,760	$235	$125,627,704	34
6	(6)	Coyote Ugly	Buena Vista	Drama	$584,897	-23.03%	2,539	$230	$45,919,102	20
7	(7)	Autumn in New York	MGM	Drama	$572,421	-23.94%	2,282	$251	$22,968,302	13
8	(10)	Nutty Professor II: The Klumps	Universal	Comedy	$521,055	-7.53%	2,969	$175	$105,942,676	27
9	(8)	Hollow Man	Sony Pictures	Horror	$467,508	-28.57%	2,954	$158	$63,272,530	20
10	(9)	Bless the Child	Paramount Pictures	Thriller/Suspense	$453,578	-25.58%	2,521	$180	$19,593,347	13
11	(11)	Godzilla 2000	Sony Pictures	Action	$336,116	-16.14%	2,111	$159	$5,548,360	6
12	(12)	X-Men	20th Century Fox	Action	$285,122	-19.12%	1,624	$176	$149,576,124	41
13	(13)	The Perfect Storm	Warner Bros.	Drama	$188,124	-15.09%	1,417	$133	$174,204,424	55
14	(15)	The Kid	Buena Vista	Comedy	$176,844	+11.15%	1,222	$145	$64,910,641	48
15	(16)	Chicken Run	Dreamworks SKG	Adventure	$151,075	+11.97%	1,002	$151	$102,197,920	64
16	(14)	Scary Movie	Miramax/Dimension	Comedy	$139,638	-18.19%	1,501	$93	$147,699,658	48
17	(18)	Saving Grace	Fine Line	Comedy	$98,648	-11.40%	255	$387	$2,267,833	20
18	(19)	Pokemon 2000	Warner Bros.	Adventure	$94,340	+15.08%	638	$148	$42,165,034	34
19	(20)	Thomas and the Magic Railroad	Destination Films	Adventure	$90,570	+26.63%	1,008	$90	$14,821,202	29
20	(17)	The Patriot	Sony Pictures	Drama	$88,817	-20.72%	842	$105	$110,301,290	57

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