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If pillow fighting were an Olympic event, Hollywood would've walked away with the gold last weekend. After all, Keanu Reeves' tepid thriller The Watcher scraped up a mere $5.8 million and still managed to limp away with the top spot, just edging out the chum-scented arrival of Jamie Foxx's Bait. The Watcher's dubious achievement makes it the lowest-grossing No. 1 film in more than three years. But it wasn't all bad vibes at the multiplex: The '70s-era rock & roll saga Almost Famous kicked out the jams in its limited opening with a rousing $17,669 per-screen average. Looks like DreamWorks is using the same word-of-mouth game plan that enabled last year's American Beauty to step to the top of Oscar's victory stand.
TOP 20 WEEKEND WEEKS GROSS WEEKEND NO. OF PER-SITE IN TO GROSS* SITES[1] AVERAGE RELEASE DATE
1 THE WATCHER Universal $5.8 2,745 $2,115 2 $17.4 2 BAIT Warner Bros. $5.5 2,352 $2,332 1 $5.5 3 BRING IT ON Universal $5.1 2,427 $2,095 4 $50.9 4 NURSE BETTY USA Films $4.7 1,469 $3,171 2 $13.6 5 SPACE COWBOYS Warner Bros. $2.5 2,461 $1,022 7 $82.2 6 THE CELL New Line $2.4 2,250 $1,088 5 $55.0 7 WHAT LIES BENEATH DreamWorks $2.4 2,007 $1,199 9 $145.6 8 ALMOST FAMOUS DreamWorks $2.3 131 $17,669 1 $2.4 9 SCARY MOVIE Dimension $2.0 1,997 $1,021 11 $151.8 10 DUETS Hollywood $2.0 581 $3,447 1 $2.0 11 THE ART OF WAR Warner Bros. $1.6 1,705 $911 4 $27.4 12 THE ORIGINAL KINGS OF COMEDY Paramount $1.5 1,040 $1,478 5 $34.0 13 THE REPLACEMENTS Warner Bros. $1.4 1,713 $808 6 $41.0 14 NUTTY PROFESSOR II: THE KLUMPS Universal $1.2 1,402 $870 8 $118.5 15 THE WAY OF THE GUN Artisan $1.2 1,565 $778 2 $4.3 16 HIGHLANDER: ENDGAME Dimension $1.1 1,546 $714 3 $10.8 17 COYOTE UGLY Touchstone $1.0 1,104 $909 7 $56.7 18 AUTUMN IN NEW YORK MGM $0.9 1,572 $602 6 $35.4 19 SAVING GRACE Fine Line $0.9 874 $1,026 7 $9.7 20 THE CREW Touchstone $0.7 1,188 $565 4 $11.9
SOURCE: ACNIELSEN EDI, INC. WEEKEND OF SEPT. 15-17 *WEEKEND GROSS AND GROSS-TO-DATE FIGURES
IN MILLIONS INCLUDES SOME MULTISCREEN THEATERS AND PRINTS SHIPPED AS WELL AS INDIVIDUAL SCREENS
