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'The Help' puts in overtime at No. 1 with $19M

'The Help' puts in overtime at No. 1 with $19M

"The Help" has stayed on the job over Labor Day, finishing as the No. 1 film for the third-straight weekend. The acclaimed drama about Southern black maids speaking out during the civil-rights movement took in $19 million over the long holiday weekend, according to studio estimates Monday.

 

Box Office Report: Labor Day off to a ho-hum start; 'The Help' Stays at No. 1

Early Friday returns indicate that The Help will gross around $14 million for the four-day holiday weekend. By Monday, the female-fueled drama will have jumped $120 million mark--exceeding even the most optimistic expectations. DreamWorks and Participant Media produced and co-financed the $25 million movie.

 

'The Help' reigns again over storm-soaked weekend

'The Help' reigns again over storm-soaked weekend

"The Help" remained Hollywood's top draw with $14.3 million on a slow late-summer weekend whose business was even more sluggish as many East Coast theaters closed to ride out the storm there....

 

Box Office Update: 'The Help' Braves Hurricane Irene to Stay at No. 1

Box Office Update: 'The Help' Braves Hurricane Irene to Stay at No. 1

Zoe Saldana's "Colombiana" comes in at No. 2, followed by "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" and "Our Idiot Brother," with Hurricane Irene taking a big bite out of the domestic box office as theaters close on the East Coast.

 

‘The Help’ moves upstairs with $20.5M for No. 1 weekend; new movies fail to grab viewers

‘The Help’ moves upstairs with $20.5M for No. 1 weekend; new movies fail to grab viewers

“The Help” continues to clean up at the box office, taking over the No. 1 spot with $20.5 million in its second weekend. The drama about Southern black maids had debuted in second-place a week earlier. “The Help” raised its domestic total to $71.8 million and bumped “Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” which slipped to No. 2 with $16.3 million after two weekends at the top.

 

FIRST BOX OFFICE: Top 5 Utter Confusion

Every one of my sources had a different Top 5 list all day -- and there wasn't even a consensus until tonight that DreamWorks' holdover The Help (which needs none) is Friday's No. 1 movie. The problem was that the new releases -- Dimension/Weinstein Co's Spy Kids 4D, Nu Image/Millenium/Lionsgate's Conan The Barbarian, and DreamWorks/Disney's Fright Night are all bunched together behind another holdover, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes.

 

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