Topping the weekend box office for the third consecutive week, "Night at the Museum" took in $24 million. The three-week total for the film now has reached $164.1 million.
The feel-good movie "The Pursuit of Happyness," starring Will Smith and his son, continues to do well as it came in second, bringing in another $13 million to bring its total to $124.2 million.
Increasing its exposure after its Holiday opening, the Universal thriller "Children of Men" came in third for the weekend with a total of $10.3 million, the No. 1 new movie.
Paramount's drama Freedom Writers," which has been dissed by the critics, opened up much stronger than predicted - almost doubling what many people thought it would do - coming in fourth in its debut with $9.7 million.
The top ten for the weekend:
| 1 | Night at the Museum | $24,000,000 |
| 2 | The Pursuit of Happyness | $13,000,000 |
| 3 | Children of Men | $10,295,000 |
| 4 | Freedom Writers | $9,705,000 |
| 5 | Dreamgirls | $8,825,000 |
| 6 | Happily N'Ever After | $6,800,000 |
| 7 | Charlotte's Web (2006) | $6,610,000 |
| 8 | The Good Shepherd | $6,536,000 |
| 9 | Rocky Balboa | $6,268,000 |
| 10 | We Are Marshall | $5,135,000 |
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