High School Musical 3' bests 'Porno' to stay atop box office



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Disney`s clean-cut `High School Musical 3: Senior Year` kept would-be porn stars Zack and Miri at bay to keep its top slot on the North American weekend earnings list, final industry figures showed Monday.

The preteen-targeting sing-along earned 15 million dollars in weekend ticket sales -- paltry for the top earner, in a weekend that saw the overall box office gross down 39 percent from the same weekend last year, according to data compiled by Exhibitor Relations.

`Musical` bested the uncomfortably-named `Zack and Miri Make a Porno,` a raunchy slacker comedy in which financially-strapped friends played by Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks decide to make a do-it-yourself pornographic film but end up falling in love. The film debuted in second spot with a little over 10 million dollars.

The latest horror franchise `Saw V` slipped one spot to third, scaring up 9.7 million dollars on the Halloween weekend, while the latest Angelina Jolie vehicle `Changeling,` Clint Eastwood`s drama about a mother desperate to find her missing boy moved up fourth, earning 9.35 million dollars.

The teen slasher `The Haunting of Molly Hartley` debuted in fifth place, taking in 5.4 million dollars.

The pooches of `Beverly Hills Chihuahua` slipped two spots to sixth with a 4.9-million-dollar take and pushing the film`s five-week total boxoffice earnings to 84 million.

Close on their heels was `The Secret Life of Bees,` the screen version of the novel by Sue Monk Kidd featuring Oscar-winning actress and singer Jennifer Hudson took in 4.0 million dollars.

`Max Payne,` Fox`s noir, fantasy-tinged movie based on the best-selling video game and starring Mark Wahlberg as a revenge-driven undercover New York cop, came in eighth earning 3.7 million dollars.

In ninth place, futuristic thriller `Eagle Eye` took in 3.5 million dollars for a six-week total of 92.6 million.

In tenth place was Gavin O`Connor`s cop film `Pride and Glory,` starring Edward Norton and Colin Farrell, with 3.4 million dollars.

Oliver Stone`s biography of President George W. Bush, `W,` slipped to 11th place this weekend with 2.4 million dollars, nipping Ridley Scott`s spy thriller `Body of Lies` with 2.3 million dollars.



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