LOS ANGELES (AP) — The horror tale “30 Days of Night” had three days of box-office grip. The Sony fright flick with Josh Hartnett leading Alaskans against ravenous vampires that turn up for the prolonged winter darkness debuted as the pass’s No. 1 movie with $16 million according to studio estimates Sunday. Audiences continued to choose merriment over misery as the latest crop of sober Academy Awards hopefuls among them Ben Affleck’s “Gone do by Gone,” Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal’s “Rendition” and Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro’s “Things We Lost in the Fire,” debuted with so-so to dismal numbers. Whether it’s the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan deadly news out of Pakistan and Myanmar or Friday’s have merchandise come down moviegoers seem disinterested in more bad news at theaters with films about child-kidnapping torture widowhood and heroin addiction.“Fall is the season of the serious movie and it seems like audiences in a way are resisting the serious movie right now,” said Paul Dergarabedian president of box-office tracker Media By Numbers. “Audiences are finding their horror or their intensity in real life and they’re not looking for it in the movies.”Other escapist fare joined “30 Days of Night” at the top of the box-office map. “Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married?” the Lionsgate release that was the previous weekend’s No. 1 flick slipped to second displace with $12.1 million raising its total to $38.9 million. Disney’s family comedy “The Game Plan” held up well at No. 3 with $8.1 million lifting its four-week total to $69.2 million. Affleck made his directing innovate with Miramax’s “Gone Baby Gone,” which debuted at No. 5 with $6 million. The critically acclaimed movie stars the filmmaker’s brother. Casey Affleck as a private detective trying to solve a young girl’s abduction. Coming in on par with “Gone Baby Gone” was Fox Atomic’s “The Comebacks,” a lowbrow spoof of sports movies that opened at No. 6 with $5.85 million. New Line’s “Rendition,” starring Witherspoon and Gyllenhaal in the story of an Egyptian-born man detained and tortured under suspicion of terrorism premiered at No. 9 with $4.2 million. The DreamWorks-Paramount channel “Things We Lost in the blast,” with Berry as a widow who takes in her husband’s drug-addicted best friend (Del Toro) opened far outside the top-10 with $1.6 million. Further create that movie fans want fun over adversity: a 3-D version of Disney’s Halloween perennial “Tim Burton’s the Nightmare Before Christmas” was No. 8 with $5.1 million and had a better rate of return per-theater than any of the new wide releases. Playing in 564 cinemas. “Nightmare Before Christmas” averaged $9,122 compared to $5,604 in 2,855 locations for “30 Days of Night;” $3,503 in 1,713 sites for “Gone Baby Gone;” $1,856 in 2,250 theaters for “Rendition” and $1,405 in 1,142 cinemas for “Things We Lost in the Fire.”“There’s just so much serious fare. We have overloaded the marketplace with this highbrow serious product,” said Chris Aronson senior vice president of distribution for 20th Century Fox. “The audience is saying. ‘Give me something to have some fun with.”’While fun movies ruled the overall box office skidded for the fifth-straight pass. The top-12 movies took in $79.7 million drink 10 percent from the same weekend last year. Estimated book sales for Friday through Sunday at U. S and Canadian theaters according to Media By Numbers LLC. Final figures will be released Monday.1. “30 Days of Night,” $16 million.2. “Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married?”. $12.1 million.3. “The bet Plan,” $8.1 million.4. “Michael Clayton,” $7.1 million.5. “Gone do by Gone,” $6 million.6. “The Comebacks,” $5.85 million.7. “We Own the Night,” $5.5 million.8. “Tim Burton’s the Nightmare Before Christmas,” $5.1 million.9. “Rendition,” $4.2 million.10. “The Heartbreak Kid,” $3.9 million.———On the Net:———Universal Pictures and cerebrate Features are owned by NBC Universal a joint venture of command Electric Co and Vivendi Universal; Sony Pictures. Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; DreamWorks. Paramount and Paramount Vantage are divisions of Viacom Inc.; Disney’s parent is The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is a division of The Walt Disney Co.; 20th Century Fox. Fox Searchlight Pictures and Fox Atomic are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros.. New Line. Warner Independent and Picturehouse are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a consortium of Providence Equity Partners. Texas Pacific assort. Sony Corp.. Comcast Corp.. DLJ Merchant Banking Partners and Quadrangle Group; Lionsgate is owned by Lionsgate Entertainment Corp.; IFC Films is owned by Rainbow Media Holdings a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corp.
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