Streep’s sweep
Merly Streep is one of our finest actors, but her top-grossing films don’t always reflect those instances where her acting skills were at their finest (first figure is total domestic gross, second is opening weekend, in millions):
1
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
$118.6
$30.1, 2004
2
Kramer vs. Kramer
$106.3
$5.5, 1979
3
Out of Africa
$87.1
$3.6, 1985
4
The Bridges of Madison County
$71.5
$10.5, 1995
5
The Manchurian Candidate
$66
$20, 2004
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Box office
Here are last week’s gross revenues in millions of dollars at North American theaters for the top 15 films, followed by total amount grossed and number of weeks in release in parentheses.
1
Click
$40 (one week)
2
Cars
$23.3
$156.7 (three weeks)
3
Nacho Libre
$12.7
$53.2 (two weeks)
4
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
$9.8
$43.1 (two weeks)
5
Waist Deep
$9.4 (one week)
6
The Lake House
$8.8
$29.8 (two weeks)
7
The Break-Up
$6.6
$104.2 (four weeks)
8
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
$5.2
$16.5 (two weeks)
9
X-Men: The Last Stand
$4.8
$224.5 (five weeks)
10
The Da Vinci Code
$4.1
$205.6 (six weeks)
11
Over the Hedge
$2.9
$144.7 (six weeks)
12
A Prairie Home Companion
$2.3
$12.6 (three weeks)
13
The Omen
$2.3
$52.1 (three weeks)
14
An Inconvenient Truth
$2
$9.6 (five weeks)
15
Mission: Impossible III
$719,349
$131.5 (eight weeks)
Top TV
Here are Nielsen ratings for the top 20 primetime shows nationally, network
newscasts and 10 p.m. Denver newscasts for last week.
National: CBS, first; NBC, second; Fox, third; ABC, fourth
Network evening news: NBC’s Nightly News, first; ABC’s World News Tonight, second; CBS’s Evening News, third
Local 10 p.m. news: KUSA-Channel 9, first; KCNC-Channel 4, second; KMGH-Channel 7, third
1. NBA Finals Game 6: Miami vs. Dallas, ABC, 15.7 million viewers
2. America’s Got Talent, NBC, 12.4 million
3. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CBS, 11.9 million
4. CSI: Miami, CBS, 11.3
5. Without a Trace, CBS, 10.2 million
6. Law and Order: SVU, NBC, 9.7 million
7. CSI: NY, CBS, 9.383 million
8. 60 Minutes, CBS, 9.382 million
9. So You Think You Can Dance (Thursday), Fox, 9.2 million
10. So You Think You Can Dance (Wednesday), Fox, 9.1 million
11. House, Fox, 9.0 million
12. Fox Nextel Cup Winner’s Circle, Fox, 8.8 million
13. NCIS, CBS, 8.47 million
14. Numb3rs, CBS, 8.46 million
15. Cold Case, CBS, 8.2 million
16. Two and a Half Men, CBS, 8.0 million
17. Criminal Minds, CBS, 7.99 million
18. Hell’s Kitchen, Fox, 7.5 million
19. Game Show Marathon (Thursday), CBS, 7.46 million
20. Close to Home, CBS, 7.39 million
