"Click," starring Adam Sandler resinated with audiences as it came in the top spot over the weekend at $40 million, with an average of $10,670 per theater. It is Sandler's eighth number-one opener in his career, and the fifth time he has opened at $40 million or higher. It appealed to a wide audience, both in age and gender as it split about 50 percent of each.
"Car" continued to do well coming in second with $23.3 million on its third weekend and "Nacho Libre" came in third although they went down 55 percent to $12.7 million.
The overall sales for the weekend were $139.8 million, which is up 10 percent over the same time last year. It makes it six weeks in a row that sales have been better than last years period. Still, it is only around 3 percent over last years horrible year, and several percentage points behind 2004 at the same time.
So far this year box office receipts are $4.186 billion according to Nielsen.
Here are the top ten for the weekend:
| Rnk. |
 |
Movie | |
Wknd. |
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Total |
| 1 | Click | $ 40.0 | $ 40.0 | |||
| 2 | Cars | $ 23.3 | $ 156.7 | |||
| 3 |
Nacho Libre |
$ 12.7 | $ 53.2 | |||
| 4 | The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift | $ 9.8 | $ 43.1 | |||
| 5 | Waist Deep | $ 9.4 | $ 9.4 | |||
| 6 | The Lake House | $ 8.8 | $ 29.8 | |||
| 7 | The Break-Up | $ 6.6 | $ 104.2 | |||
| 8 | Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties | $ 5.2 | $ 16.5 | |||
| 9 | X-Men: The Last Stand | $ 4.8 | $ 224.5 | |||
| 10 | The Da Vinci Code | $ 4.1 | $ 205.6 |
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