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Daily Box Office - Friday, October 21, 2005

• As expected, Doom was the #1 film by a wide margin, taking in as much as the next two films combined.
• The big surprise was that North Country, a serious new drama which was expected to finish second, performed abysmally, finishing sixth with less than two million dollars in gross, despite being on 2500 screens.
• Switching places with North Country was the other major new release, Dreamer, a family film which was supposed to finish no higher than fourth, but which muscled its way into second place on Friday.
• The fourth new release, Stay, with little publicity and weak reviews, was expected to bomb and did, finishing in a tie for tenth.