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Hide and Seek wins the Weekend Box Office January 28-30.

• Are We There Yet? dropped to second, but showed tremendous staying power, dropping only 8% from last week! Based on that measurement, "smallest drop in the second week", that movie is one of the top 20 performers since Box Office Mojo started monitoring such things.
• Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby put up some respectable numbers and finished a very solid third.
• The expanded distribution of Sideways was not as successful as the Eastwood flick, and it took in only about 2/3 as much per screen. That film took in only about six million for the weekend, finishing well behind week six of the Fockers and week seven of The Aviator.
• Critics called Alone in the Dark an hilariously amateurish debacle, the studio released it virtually unpromoted, and it has no A-list star, so it delivered predictably dismal box office results - only two million dollars from 2100 screens, opening in 14th place.
• Say Sayonara to Elektra after another disastrous drop-off.