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'The Fog' envelops US box office
Published Monday, Oct 17 2005, 17:31 BST | By Daniel Saney
The Fog topped the US box office chart last weekend, narrowly beating last week's chart-topper, Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, which slipped to second place.
The horror remake, in which a town is haunted by ghosts of its past, took $12.2m (£6.9m), whilst Nick Park's animated duo earned themselves $11.7m (£6.6m). Opening in third place was romantic comedy Elizabethtown, starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst, which took $11m.
The USA's top ten:
1. (-) The Fog - $12.2m
2. (1) Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit - $11.7m
3. (-) Elizabethtown - $11m
4. (2) Flightplan - $6.47m
5. (3) In Her Shoes - $6.1m
6. (-) Domino - $4.67 m
7. (4) Two for the Money - $4.6m
8. (8) A History of Violence - $3.6m
9. (6) Tim Burton's Corpse Bride - $3.46m
10. (5) The Gospel - $3.2m
The horror remake, in which a town is haunted by ghosts of its past, took $12.2m (£6.9m), whilst Nick Park's animated duo earned themselves $11.7m (£6.6m). Opening in third place was romantic comedy Elizabethtown, starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst, which took $11m.
The USA's top ten:
1. (-) The Fog - $12.2m
2. (1) Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit - $11.7m
3. (-) Elizabethtown - $11m
4. (2) Flightplan - $6.47m
5. (3) In Her Shoes - $6.1m
6. (-) Domino - $4.67 m
7. (4) Two for the Money - $4.6m
8. (8) A History of Violence - $3.6m
9. (6) Tim Burton's Corpse Bride - $3.46m
10. (5) The Gospel - $3.2m
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