BOX OFFICE

CHIMP CHANGE Rupert Murdoch did monkey flips thanks to the $68.5 million bow of his damn dirty apes–a new three-day non-holiday record. (The Mark Wahlberg simian epic earned a less-than-rousing B- grade from audiences polled by CinemaScore, but don’t be too surprised if a sequel’s already being hatched.) Further down the food chain, Dr. Dolittle 2 crossed the $100 million mark, giving the Aussie media mogul another Fox hit to crow about. Our predecessors in the winners’ circle inched toward extinction, as Jurassic Park III’s dinosaurs dropped off 56 percent in their second weekend.

TOP 20

WEEKEND WEEKS WEEKEND NO. OF PER-SITE IN GROSS GROSS* SITES[1] AVERAGE RELEASE TO DATE

1 PLANET OF THE APES 20th Century Fox $68.5 3,500 $19,581 1 $68.5 2 JURASSIC PARK III Universal $22.5 3,439 $6,555 2 $124.8 3 AMERICA’S SWEETHEARTS Columbia $15.4 3,011 $5,115 2 $59.1 4 LEGALLY BLONDE MGM $9.0 2,725 $3,305 3 $59.8 5 THE SCORE Paramount $7.1 2,211 $3,190 3 $49.1 6 DR. DOLITTLE 2 20th Century Fox $4.6 2,188 $2,118 6 $101.2 7 CATS & DOGS Warner Bros. $4.6 2,816 $1,640 4 $81.6 8 THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS Universal $4.1 2,385 $1,715 6 $132.5 9 SCARY MOVIE 2 Dimension $2.7 2,179 $1,247 4 $67.2 10 SHREK DreamWorks $1.8 1,439 $1,246 11 $255.5 11 KISS OF THE DRAGON 20th Century Fox $1.8 1,214 $1,456 4 $33.0 12 FINAL FANTASY: THE SPIRITS WITHIN Columbia $1.3 2,028 $642 3 $30.3 13 LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER Paramount $1.0 940 $1,074 7 $128.5 14 A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Warner Bros. $0.9 1,327 $711 5 $76.7 15 ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE Walt Disney $0.9 893 $967 8 $79.4 16 PEARL HARBOR Touchstone $0.8 715 $1,156 10 $193.7 17 BABY BOY Columbia $0.7 491 $1,388 5 $27.8 18 MADE Artisan $0.7 105 $6,307 3 $1.3 19 YAADEIN Tips Exports $0.6 56 $11,529 1 $0.6 20 THE CLOSET Miramax $0.4 98 $3,994 5 $1.8

SOURCE: ACNIELSEN EDI, INC. WEEKEND OF JULY 27-29. *WEEKEND GROSS AND GROSS-TO-DATE FIGURES IN MILLIONS [1]INCLUDES SOME MULTISCREEN THEATERS AND PRINTS SHIPPED AS WELL AS INDIVIDUAL SCREENS

LAST TEN SEQUELS

TOTAL PREDECESSOR’S OPENING OPENING NO. OF DOMESTIC TOTAL GROSS RANK SITES GROSS DOMESTIC

1 JURASSIC PARK III Universal $50.8 1 3,434 $124.8* $229.1 2 SCARY MOVIE 2 Dimension $20.5 2 3,220 $67.2* $157.0 3 DR. DOLITTLE 2 20th Century Fox $25.0 2 3,049 $101.2* $144.2 4 THE MUMMY RETURNS Universal $68.1 1 3,401 $201.0* $155.3 5 CROCODILE DUNDEE IN LOS ANGELES Paramount $7.7 4 2,123 $25.6 $109.3 6 POKEMON 3: THE MOVIE Warner Bros. $8.2 4 2,675 $17.0 $43.7 7 HANNIBAL MGM $58.0 1 3,230 $165.1 $130.7 8 102 DALMATIANS Walt Disney $19.9 3 2,704 $66.9 $136.2 9 RUGRATS IN PARIS–THE MOVIE Paramount $22.7 2 2,934 $76.5 $100.5 10 BOOK OF SHADOWS: BLAIR WITCH 2 Artisan $13.2 2 3,317 $26.4 $140.5

SOURCE: EXHIBITOR RELATIONS CO. INC. *STILL IN THEATERS