In a result that seems almost purely made up so that lazy journalists can belch out headlines like the one above, yet-another-dance-off-flick Stomp The Yard has taken top spot at the U.S. box office over the weekend. Its $22 million dollar opening finally displaces the Ben Stiller family comedy Night At The Museum, which this week could only muster enough greenbacks ($17.1 million) to land it second place, bringing the fantasy flick's total gross to $185.8 million after four weeks in theatres.
Third spot this week belongs to The Pursuit Of Happyness. The Will Smith & Son show took another $9.1 million, keeping it ahead of Dreamgirls who managed a respectable $8.1 million after increasing its number of screens (and therefore session times).
Children Of Men is hanging in there at No. 6 (hooray!), taking $6.4 million. That's a 37% drop-off from last weekend, but here's hoping it can hold a place in the top ten for another week. Seventh spot belongs to Justin Timberlake's controversial newie Alpha Dog, which, given the Robin Gibb impersonator's huge fanbase, took relatively quiet $6.1 million.
The chart is rounded out by Disney's Primeval in 8th place ($6 million), Arthur And The Invisibles in 9th ($4.3 million) and The Good Shepherd ($3.9 million).
The best news of this week though comes from a film which didn't make the top ten – Casino Royale, which nestles in 19th place on the chart, added £1.8 million to its coffers, taking its overall U.S. gross to $162.5 million, and finally taking the place of Die Another Day as highest grossing Bond film in the domestic U.S. (D.A.D. could only manage £160.9 million). Thank the deity of your choice for the erasure of that particular smudge on the Bond name.