LOS ANGELES () - "Tropic Thunder," a farcical combat movie within a comedy, was the No. 1 film at North American boxwood office for the moment week in a row, narrowly whipping sorority-themed comedy "House Bunny."
"Tropic Thunder," which stars Robert Downey Jr, Ben Stiller and Jack Black, had an estimated weekend total of $16.1 million at U.S. and Canadian theaters, bringing its total domestic take to $65.7 million, according to box office tracking firm Media by Numbers.
In "Tropic Thunder," Downey, Stiller and Black star as a group of self-absorbed Hollywood actors caught up in a real life battle with narco-terrorists while filming a war film in Southeast Asia. The film was directed, co-written and co-produced by Stiller and was distributed by Paramount Pictures, a social unit of Viacom Inc.
"House Bunny," from Sony Corp's Columbia Pictures unit, debuted in minute place with a weekend take of $15.1 million.
Written by Kirsten Smith and Karen McCullah Lutz of "Legally Blonde" renown, the college comedy stars Ana Faris as a former Playboy playmate world Health Organization becomes house mother to socially feckless sorority sisters.
"Death Race" charged into third base with weekend box business office of $12.3 one thousand thousand, according Paul Pflug, a spokesman for Universal Pictures, a unit of General Electric Co's NBC Universal.
The plastic film, loosely based on the 1975 movie "Death Race 2000," stars Jason Statham, as a former Nascar champion and ex-con wHO is framed for his wife's brutal murder and forced by the warden of a notorious prison to contend in a brutal winner-take-all race of weaponized monster cars. Joan Allen stars as the icy prison house warden.
The blockbuster Batman sequel "The Dark Knight" slipped to the fourth position with $10.3 meg in slate sales.
"The Dark Knight," a Warner Bros film leading Christian Bale as Batman and the late Heath Ledger as the nefarious Joker in his last completed part, has amassed more than $489 trillion in captain Hicks weeks of domestic ticket sales and is on its direction to becoming one of the highest-grossing films in history.�
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