Posted January 2, 200718 yr NORTH AMERICAN BOX OFFICE 1. Night at the Museum ($36.7m) 2. The Pursuit of Happyness ($19.3m) 3. Dreamgirls (pictured, $15.5m) 4. Charlotte's Web ($12m) 5. The Good Shepherd ($10.98m) 6. Rocky Balboa ($10.79m) 7. Eragon ($8.3m) 8. We Are Marshall ($8.1m) 9. Happy Feet ($7.7m) 10. The Holiday ($6.7m) Source: Media by Numbers Museum holds top box office spot Night at the Museum features exhibits which come to life Ben Stiller's comedy Night at the Museum has held its place at the top of the North American box office for the second weekend running. It took $36.7m (£18.7m) between Friday and Monday, up from $30.8m (£15.7m) the previous weekend. Will Smith's drama The Pursuit of Happyness stayed in second place with an estimated take of $19.3m (£9.8m). Musical Dreamgirls, starring Beyonce Knowles, jumped to third place from seventh despite a limited release. Dreamgirls, which portrays a 1960s soul group loosely based on the Supremes, took $15.5m (£7.9m) despite playing in only 852 cinemas, compared to 3,768 screens for Night at the Museum. In fourth place was Charlotte's Web, a film based on EB White's children's novel about a talking spider and a pig named Wilbur, made $12m (£6.12m). The spy drama The Good Shepherd, about the origins of the Central Intelligence Agency, was fifth with $10.98m (£5.56m). Rocky Balboa, the sixth instalment of Sylvester Stallone's Rocky franchise, was knocked out from third place, taking the sixth spot with $10.79m (£5.46m). The dragon fantasy Eragon was seventh while former number one, the animated penguin flick Happy Feet, was still in the top ten with $7.7m (£3.9m) with total US takings at $178m (£90.2m). The weekend's top 12 films took an estimated $145.4m (£73.7) over three days, nearly 11% more than the same period last year, according to the new figures.
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