As expected, DreamWorks Animation’s and Aardman Animations’ Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit opened at No.1 in the U.K. over the weekend and dominated the overseas box office with an estimated $26.4 million. Meanwhile, a close race had Sony/Revolution Studios’ remake of The Fog finishing in the top spot domestically with an estimated $12 million to Wallace & Gromit’s $11.7 million.
Directed by Nick Park and Steve Box, the first big-screen outing for the clay-animated Wallace and his four-legged, plasticine pal, Gromit, reportedly brought in around $11.3 million from just 502 locations in Blighty alone. While two of the three Wallace & Gromit shorts have won Academy Awards, they are particularly popular in Aardman’s native U.K. And, despite a generally low-turnout weekend, the film performed solidly again in North America, losing only 27% of its audience in week two.
Boasting the star power of Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst, Paramount’s Cameron Crowe-directed romantic dramedy, Elizabethtown, landed at No. 3 domestically with approximately $11 million. Meanwhile, Buena Vista’s Jodi Foster thriller, Flightplan, descended to No. 4, taking in an estimated $6.5 million to bring its four-week cume to around $70.7 million. Rounding out the top-five is 20th Century Fox’s Cameron Diaz chick flick, In Her Shoes, with a sophomore haul of around $6.4 million.
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