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Weekend Box Office Results for September 29–October 1, 2006

• Mr Acting, Ashton Kutcher, took the top two spots!!
• The results were consistent with predictions, albeit a hair softer than expected by the pundits. It was still a reasonably good weekend, given the lack of a knockout top-line picture. The top twelve group was 13% above last year's comparable group and four million better than last week. This is the first week in two months with a substantial increase over last year, so one should not make too much of the shortfall versus the predictions.
• Open Season was very solid on Saturday, pulling $10m from the kiddie crowd.
• The weekend's sleeper was Facing the Giants, an independent football drama which was produced by a Christian group and ignored by the mainstream media. It managed to finish in twelfth place despite being in only 441 theaters!
• Another promising trial run belonged to Gondry's "The Science of Sleep." It was only on 221 screens, but finished in fifteenth place overall, and landed in an impressive second place as measured by the "average per theater" column.