'High School Musical 3' bests 'Porno' to stay atop box officeDisney's clean-cut "High School Musical 3: Senior Year" kept would-be porn stars Zack and Miri at bay to keep its top slot on the North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. box office earnings list, industry figures showed Sunday. The preteen-targeting sing-along earned 15 million dollars in weekend ticket sales -- paltry for the top earner, in a weekend that saw the overall box-office gross down 38 percent from the same weekend last year, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. data compiled by Exhibitor Relations. It bested the uncomfortably-named "Zack and Miri Make a Porno," a raunchy raun·chy adj. raun·chi·er, raun·chi·est Slang 1. a. Obscene, lewd, or vulgar: "[He] slacker comedy in which financially strapped friends played by Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks decide to make a do-it-yourself pornographic film but end up falling in love. The film debuted in second spot with 10.7 million dollars. The latest horror franchise "Saw V" slipped one spot to third, scaring up 10.1 million dollars on the Halloween weekend, while the latest Angelina Jolie vehicle "Changeling," Clint Eastwood's drama about a mother desperate to find her missing boy moved up fourth, earning 9.4 million dollars. The teen slasher slash·er n. One that slashes. adj. Characterized by gory violence: slasher movies. slasher Noun Austral & NZ "The Haunting of Molly Hartley" debuted in fifth place, taking in 6.0 million dollars. The pooches of "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" slipped two spots to sixth with a 4.7-million-dollar take and pushing the film's five-week total boxoffice earnings to 84 million. Close on their heels was "The Secret Life of Bees," the screen version of the novel by Sue Monk Kidd Sue Monk Kidd (born August 12, 1948) is a writer from the Southern United States, best known for her novel, The Secret Life of Bees. Kidd, who was born in Sylvester, Georgia, graduated from Texas Christian University with a B.S. featuring Oscar-winning actress and singer Jennifer Hudson took in 4.0 million dollars. "Max Payne," Fox's noir, fantasy-tinged movie based on the best-selling video game and starring Mark Wahlberg as a revenge-driven undercover New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of cop, came in eighth earning 3.7 million dollars. In ninth place, futuristic thriller "Eagle Eye" took in 3.4 million dollars for a six-week total of 92.5 million. Rounding out the top 10 was Gavin O'Connor's cop film "Pride and Glory," starring Edward Norton and Colin Farrell, with 3.3 million dollars. Oliver Stone's biography of President George W. Bush, "W," slipped to 11th place this weekend with 2.5 million dollars, nipping nip·ping adj. 1. Sharp and biting, as the cold. 2. Bitingly sarcastic. nip  ping·ly adv.Adj. Ridley Scott's spy thriller "Body of Lies" with 2.4 million dollars. 
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