Weekend Box Office
After a dispiriting couple of weeks at the box office, things picked back up this weekend with four new films debuting in the double digits–including a No. 1 grab for the Coen brothers, the first of their career. The Coens' Burn After Reading earned the highest debut of the filmmakers' careers with a $19.4 million take. Opening in the fewest number of theaters of the four new releases this week, Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys bowed in at No. 2 with $18 million, beating out the $16.5 million take of Righteous Kill, which opened in 1,000 or so more theaters. The final new contender, the much-derided (here and elsewhere) The Women, took in $10.1 million to land it at a respectable No. 4–though its next closest competitor was the 4-weeks-old The House Bunny, which took No. 5 with $4.3 million.