How do you know it’s a ho-hum week for box office? When Box Office Mojo’s Brandon Gray writes sentences like this one: “[The Rite] was the highest-grossing opening ever for Anthony Hopkins in a top-billed, non-Hannibal-Lecter role, surpassing Fracture.” That’s an awful lot of qualifications for success, and indeed, Hopkins’ lame horror/thriller The Rite was nothing if not a qualified success, opening in first place with $15 million in returns. The week’s other big opener, Jason Statham’s remake of The Mechanic, bowed in third with a mildly respectable $11.5 million, not enough to top the surprisingly frisky No Strings Attached, which won $13.6 million in its second week. The big story of the week is the Oscar bump enjoyed by The King’s Speech, which opened to 877 more theaters in the wake of its raft of Oscar nominations, and earned $11.1 million.