The Top Movies, Weekend of August 27, 2004

		Movie	Distributor	Genre	Gross	Change	Thtrs.	Per Thtr.	Total Gross	Days
1	(new)	Jet Li's Hero	Miramax	Action	$18,004,319		2,031	$8,865	$18,004,319	3
2	(new)	Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid	Sony Pictures	Horror	$12,812,287		2,905	$4,410	$12,812,287	3
3	(2)	Without a Paddle	Paramount Pictures	Comedy	$8,582,417	-36.56%	2,730	$3,144	$27,739,646	10
4	(3)	The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement	Buena Vista	Romantic Comedy	$8,084,138	-38.06%	3,331	$2,427	$75,065,898	19
5	(1)	Exorcist: The Beginning	Warner Bros.	Horror	$7,081,057	-60.78%	2,813	$2,517	$31,167,046	10
6	(6)	Collateral	Dreamworks SKG	Action	$6,470,109	-36.29%	2,728	$2,372	$80,158,380	24
7	(4)	AVP: Alien Vs. Predator	20th Century Fox	Horror	$4,907,613	-60.45%	2,880	$1,704	$72,173,237	17
8	(5)	Open Water	Lionsgate	Thriller/Suspense	$4,759,727	-58.30%	2,709	$1,757	$23,261,943	24
9	(7)	The Bourne Supremacy	Universal	Action	$4,646,125	-28.18%	2,079	$2,235	$157,748,855	38
10	(new)	Suspect Zero	Paramount Pictures	Thriller/Suspense	$3,446,375		1,500	$2,298	$3,446,375	3
11	(new)	Super Babies: Baby Geniuses 2	Sony Pictures	Comedy	$3,251,856		1,276	$2,548	$3,251,856	3
12	(8)	The Manchurian Candidate	Paramount Pictures	Thriller/Suspense	$2,838,802	-29.34%	1,484	$1,913	$59,012,292	31
13	(11)	Garden State	Fox Searchlight	Drama	$2,791,539	-7.58%	745	$3,747	$10,857,346	33
14	(14)	Napoleon Dynamite	Fox Searchlight	Comedy	$2,083,493	+16.53%	706	$2,951	$22,380,194	80
15	(9)	The Village	Buena Vista	Thriller/Suspense	$1,889,981	-49.23%	1,560	$1,212	$110,507,857	31
16	(12)	Spider-Man 2	Sony Pictures	Adventure	$1,574,837	-34.96%	1,186	$1,328	$367,816,575	61
17	(10)	Yu-Gi-Oh	Warner Bros.	Adventure	$1,362,693	-58.01%	2,120	$643	$18,121,266	17
18	(13)	I, Robot	20th Century Fox	Action	$1,256,914	-47.82%	1,003	$1,253	$140,549,286	45
19	(16)	Benji: Off the Leash!	Benji Returns	Drama	$620,850	-58.94%	759	$818	$2,792,309	10
20	(15)	Little Black Book	Sony Pictures	Romantic Comedy	$603,551	-60.23%	767	$787	$19,806,798	24
21	(17)	The Notebook	New Line	Drama	$586,818	-24.20%	481	$1,220	$77,371,100	66
22	(19)	De-Lovely	MGM/UA	Drama	$514,558	-8.43%	307	$1,676	$11,595,533	66
23	(25)	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban	Warner Bros.	Adventure	$485,683	+37.39%	391	$1,242	$247,598,604	87
24	(21)	Maria Full of Grace	New Line	Drama	$384,635	-16.10%	123	$3,127	$3,923,157	45
25	(33)	We Don't Live Here Anymore	Warner Bros.	Drama	$352,711	+83.25%	90	$3,919	$793,130	17
26	(18)	Fahrenheit 9/11	Lionsgate	Documentary	$327,464	-45.10%	312	$1,050	$117,453,674	68
27	(28)	Intimate Strangers	Paramount Classics	Drama	$226,533	-13.31%	91	$2,489	$1,141,740	31
28	(22)	Nicotina	Arenas Entertainment	Black Comedy	$212,525	-52.43%	96	$2,214	$800,371	10
29	(34)	What the #$'! Do We Know	Captured Light	Documentary	$200,480	+8.87%	40	$5,012	$2,488,255	206
30	(20)	Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle	New Line	Comedy	$195,172	-60.17%	170	$1,148	$17,832,106	31
31	(26)	Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story	20th Century Fox	Comedy	$187,944	-33.49%	247	$761	$113,341,786	73
32	(31)	King Arthur	Buena Vista	Adventure	$178,765	-24.07%	237	$754	$51,344,056	54
33	(36)	NASCAR: The IMAX Experience	Warner Bros.	Documentary	$157,865	-11.59%	56	$2,819	$18,116,673	171
34	(29)	Garfield	20th Century Fox	Comedy	$152,463	-38.76%	236	$646	$74,700,651	80
35	(27)	A Cinderella Story	Warner Bros.	Romantic Comedy	$138,871	-48.59%	203	$684	$50,550,175	45
36	(37)	Before Sunset	Warner Independent Pictures	Drama	$129,394	-24.47%	88	$1,470	$4,779,731	59
37	(24)	Catwoman	Warner Bros.	Action	$124,019	-67.90%	166	$747	$39,389,097	38
38	(35)	The Door in the Floor	Focus Features	Drama	$123,831	-31.04%	83	$1,492	$3,381,368	47
39	(98)	A Day Without a Mexican	Televisa Cine	Comedy	$113,259	+7,859.17%	42	$2,697	$3,361,345	108
40	(32)	The Day After Tomorrow	20th Century Fox	Adventure	$106,815	-48.46%	178	$600	$186,188,336	94
41	(41)	Adrenaline Rush: The Science of Risk	Giant Screen Films	Documentary	$105,487	-5.77%	17	$6,205	$7,863,740	682
42	(40)	Riding Giants	Sony Pictures	Documentary	$87,198	-32.29%	62	$1,406	$1,848,324	52
43	(65)	Mean Creek	Paramount Classics	Drama	$86,669	+197.12%	23	$3,768	$130,817	10
44	(38)	The Stepford Wives	Paramount Pictures	Comedy	$84,644	-43.71%	133	$636	$59,341,993	80
45	(55)	Rosenstrasse	IDP Distribution	Drama	$74,494	+65.45%	21	$3,547	$143,281	10
46	(47)	Festival Express	ThinkFilm	Concert	$73,666	+19.03%	34	$2,167	$644,192	38
47	(44)	A Home at the End of the World	Warner Independent Pictures	Drama	$63,482	-22.94%	54	$1,176	$887,724	38
48	(39)	Around the World in 80 Days	Buena Vista	Adventure	$60,983	-54.64%	116	$526	$23,904,717	75
49	(46)	Saints and Soldiers	Excel Entertainment	Drama	$52,767	-16.55%	26	$2,030	$489,316	24
50	(61)	Donnie Darko	Newmarket Films	Drama	$51,598	+53.45%	16	$3,225	$937,456	1,039
51	(new)	The Brown Bunny	WellSpring	Drama	$50,601		3	$16,867	$50,601	3
52	(60)	The Story of the Weeping Camel	ThinkFilm	Documentary	$50,585	+42.85%	36	$1,405	$1,510,891	87
53	(53)	Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey	Giant Screen Films	Documentary	$44,857	-5.48%	8	$5,607	$7,295,534	689
54	(49)	The Corporation	Zeitgeist Films	Documentary	$41,952	-25.16%	26	$1,614	$1,428,874	226
55	(42)	Zatoichi	Miramax	Action	$41,831	-61.41%	39	$1,073	$682,486	38
56	(84)	Danny Deckchair	Lionsgate	Comedy	$40,917	+825.72%	24	$1,705	$67,698	19
57	(54)	Bright Young Things	ThinkFilm	Comedy	$40,155	-14.43%	5	$8,031	$106,935	10
58	(new)	Phir Milenge	UTV Communications	Drama	$37,460		27	$1,387	$37,460	3
59	(76)	The Best Two Years	Halestorm Entertainment	Comedy	$28,815	+185.75%	21	$1,372	$992,170	192
60	(57)	Super Size Me	IDP Distribution	Documentary	$26,072	-33.58%	40	$652	$11,327,782	115
61	(51)	Code 46	MGM/UA		$26,050	-52.10%	15	$1,737	$197,148	24
62	(52)	She Hate Me	Sony Pictures	Comedy	$22,951	-53.72%	19	$1,208	$294,811	31
63	(50)	Mean Girls	Paramount Pictures	Comedy	$21,241	-61.32%	79	$269	$86,026,965	122
64	(67)	Metallica: Some Kind of Monster	IFC Films	Documentary	$20,037	-5.93%	29	$691	$1,148,346	52
65	(64)	The Clearing	Fox Searchlight	Drama	$18,786	-39.69%	23	$817	$5,708,724	59
66	(72)	Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring	Sony Pictures Classics	Drama	$15,619	+9.06%	12	$1,302	$2,316,054	150
67	(91)	Godzilla: The Original Japanese Version	Rialto Pictures	Horror	$12,177	+387.67%	4	$3,044	$384,601	115
68	(95)	Zhou Yu's Train	Sony Pictures Classics	Drama	$11,511	+555.15%	6	$1,919	$102,958	59
69	(68)	Ju-On: The Grudge	Vitagraph Films	Horror	$11,320	-46.76%	9	$1,258	$164,885	38
70	(new)	Chooch	Artistic License	Comedy	$10,616		3	$3,539	$10,616	3
71	(69)	Touch of Pink	Sony Pictures Classics	Romantic Comedy	$10,029	-51.09%	10	$1,003	$459,475	45
72	(62)	Raising Helen	Buena Vista	Comedy	$9,786	-70.43%	20	$489	$37,480,459	94
73	(71)	Seducing Doctor Lewis	WellSpring	Comedy	$9,235	-46.38%	6	$1,539	$282,339	73
74	(75)	Facing Window	Sony Pictures	Drama	$7,515	-26.93%	8	$939	$493,993	73
75	(92)	The Twilight Samurai	Empire Pictures	Drama	$7,308	+219.41%	8	$914	$503,015	129
76	(79)	Ghosts of the Abyss	Buena Vista	Documentary	$5,844	-12.87%	4	$1,461	$16,460,644	507
77	(66)	Man on Fire	20th Century Fox	Thriller/Suspense	$5,512	-76.35%	11	$501	$77,906,816	129
78	(re-entry)	L.A. Twister	Indican Pictures	Drama	$5,072		4	$1,268	$16,714	17
79	(87)	The Mother	Sony Pictures	Drama	$4,810	+28.20%	5	$962	$869,643	94
80	(new)	Bright Leaves	First Run	Documentary	$4,485		1	$4,485	$4,485	3
81	(re-entry)	The Return	Kino	Drama	$4,096		5	$819	$495,359	206
82	(74)	Johnson Family Vacation	Fox Searchlight	Comedy	$3,568	-67.90%	11	$324	$31,200,725	145
83	(re-entry)	Howard Zinn	First Run	Documentary	$3,324		1	$3,324	$57,503	73
84	(re-entry)	Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of a Sorcerer	Indican Pictures	Documentary	$3,282		1	$3,282	$82,246	178
85	(86)	I'll Sleep When I'm Dead	Paramount Classics	Thriller/Suspense	$2,286	-43.61%	6	$381	$323,386	73
86	(93)	The Life of Brian	Rainbow Releasing	Comedy	$2,282	+16.43%	2	$1,141	$19,992,016	9,145
87	(85)	Young Black Stallion	Buena Vista	Adventure	$2,258	-44.63%	2	$1,129	$6,507,820	249
88	(new)	My Wife Maurice	TLA	Comedy	$2,227		1	$2,227	$2,227	3
89	(90)	Gozu	Pathfinder	Drama	$2,062	-23.80%	4	$516	$38,580	31
90	(89)	Red Lights	WellSpring	Drama	$2,048	-36.04%	1	$2,048	$7,072	10
91	(102)	Strayed	WellSpring	Drama	$1,360	+81.33%	1	$1,360	$465,769	108
92	(82)	Tom Dowd and the Language of Music	Palm/Manga	Documentary	$1,071	-79.38%	2	$536	$40,238	17
93	(77)	Last Life in the Universe		Comedy	$1,012	-88.88%	2	$506	$31,747	24
94	(99)	The Battle of Algiers	Rialto Pictures	Drama	$854	-38.12%	1	$854	$810,780	234
95	(new)	Brothers in Arms	First Run	Documentary	$658		1	$658	$658	3
96	(100)	Love Me If You Dare	Paramount Classics	Romantic Comedy	$629	-38.93%	3	$210	$541,244	103
97	(96)	How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass	Sony Pictures Classics	Comedy	$544	-66.44%	3	$181	$365,248	94
98	(94)	Father and Son	WellSpring	Drama	$448	-75.10%	1	$448	$34,492	73
99	(103)	I'm not Scared	Miramax	Drama	$112	-80.21%	2	$56	$1,615,118	143

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