the Peeping Tom thriller "Disturbia," which fended off a weak batch of newcomers to remain No. 1 for the third straight weekend top-12 movies took in an anemic $62.9 million, down 30 percent from the same weekend last year, when "RV" was the No.
1 movie with DreamWorks and Paramount's "Disturbia," starring Shia LaBeouf killer, raised its total to $52.2 million after three weekends, best performance among the weekend's ho-hum debuts, taking in $7.6 million to open at No.
2. The movie centers on a teen trying to Paramount's "Next," starring Nicolas Cage as a man whose trying to stop a terrorist nuclear attack, premiered at No. 3 with to the death for an Internet reality show, debuted in ninth-place revive his break-dancing career, opened at No.
11 with $2.8 compared to last, Hollywood has been in a lull in recent weeks as a huge crop of summer films looms, including Friday's premiere of "Spider-Man 3," followed closely by DreamWorks Animation's movie," said Rory Bruer, head of distribution for Sony. "You can see by the box office over the last few weekends, they're ready, and it's been a long time coming.
I do anticipate it's going to be an incredible weekend for us." 2002, a three-day opening that remained an all-time high until In 2004, "Spider-Man 2" opened on a Wednesday before a long "This was an incredibly slow weekend. To have a top movie come pattern," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Media By Numbers.
"It'll all be made up next weekend with Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Media By Numbers LLC.
Final figures Universal, a joint venture of General Electric Co. and Vivendi Universal; Sony Pictures, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; DreamWorks, Paramount and Paramount Vantage are divisions of Viacom Inc.
; Disney's parent is The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is a division of The Walt Disney Co.; 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Fox Atomic are owned by News Corp.
; Warner Bros., New Line, Warner Independent and Picturehouse are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a consortium of Providence Equity Partners, Texas Pacific Group, Sony Corp.
, Comcast Corp., DLJ Merchant Banking Partners and Quadrangle Group; Lionsgate is owned by Lionsgate Entertainment Corp.
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