Editorials > Beowulf Surprises High School English Teachers Everywhere, Is Popular

Robert Zemeckis' motion-capture animation epic Beowulf seized the box office crown with $28.1 million. According to Variety, roughly 40% of that revenue came from digital 3-D showings, demonstrating that there may be something to this new-fangled technology after all. The PG-13 actioner also took home the top of the international market (finally beating Ratatouille after about a month and a half).

Bee Movie declined 44% to take in $14.3 million. Ridley Scott's American Gangster fell into third but crossed the $100 million mark with $13.2 million. Vince Vaughn comedy Fred Claus took fourth place with $12 million. Zach Helm's directorial debut Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium premiered at fifth place and $10 million. Dan in Real Life came next with $4.51 million.

In its first week of wide medium slightly wider than limited release, No Country for Old Men found itself in seventh place, apparently not helped much by its overwhelmingly positive reviews. It earned $3.1 million this weekend, $4.93 million overall.

Lions for Lambs continued its disappointing performance with $2.9 million. Saw IV dropped to $2.33 million. Mike Newell's Love in the Time of Cholera fared extremely poorly in its first week with only $1.88 million, landing it at the bottom of the top ten

-David Morgan.