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'Max Payne' Takes Aim At 'Beverly Hills Chihuahua' For Box-Office #1

Category: Movies    Tags: Max Payne, Weekend Box Office

 

The Box-Office Top Five
#1 "Max Payne" ($18 million)
#2 "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" ($11.2 million)
#3 "The Secret Life of Bees" ($11.1 million)
#4 "W." ($10.6 million)
#5 "Eagle Eye" ($7.3 million)
With only a couple of weeks left before the presidential election, director Oliver Stone was betting that audiences would want to look back on the nation's controversial leader of the past eight years. As it turned out, viewers were instead eager to relive a whole different kind of pain. Mark Wahlberg's "Max Payne" led the weekend box office with $18 million, putting it in first place. The moody, noir-esque adaptation of the best-selling video game series cast the former Funky Bunch leader as a disgruntled cop out to avenge the murder of his family. Mila Kunis, Chris O'Donnell and Chris "Ludacris" Bridges all played against type in the flick that was directed by hit...Read Full Story