`Game Plan' Repeats As Box-Office Champ

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LOS ANGELES — Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson repeated as the weekend's box-office champion as his football family flick "The Game Plan" remained No. 1 with $16.6 million.

"The Heartbreak Kid," a comedy reuniting Ben Stiller with his "There's Something About Mary" filmmakers Peter and Bobby Farrelly, debuted in second-place with a surprisingly weak $14 million.

The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Media By Numbers LLC are:

1. "The Game Plan," Disney, $16,609,377, 3,105 locations, $5,349 average, $43,158,823, two weeks.

2. "The Heartbreak Kid," DreamWorks-Paramount, $14,022,105, 3,229 locations, $4,343 average, $14,022,105, one week.

3. "The Kingdom," Universal, $9,722,940, 2,802 locations, $3,470 average, $31,746,270, two weeks.

4. "Resident Evil: Extinction," Sony Screen Gems, $4,521,301, 2,848 locations, $1,588 average, $43,695,477, three weeks.

5. "The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising," Fox, $3,745,315, 3,141 locations, $1,192 average, $3,745,315, one week.

6. "Good Luck Chuck," Lionsgate, $3,657,516, 2,476 locations, $1,477 average, $29,255,442, three weeks.

7. "3:10 to Yuma," Lionsgate, $3,215,469, 2,562 locations, $1,255 average, $48,728,753, five weeks.

8. "Feel the Noise," Sony, $3,187,153, 1,015 locations, $3,140 average, $3,187,153, one week.

9. "Mr. Woodcock," New Line, $2,331,445, 1,950 locations, $1,196 average, $22,613,590, four weeks.

10. "The Brave One," Warner Bros., $2,321,359, 2,358 locations, $984 average, $34,380,387, four weeks.

11. "Eastern Promises," Focus, $2,079,579, 1,212 locations, $1,716 average, $14,455,384, four weeks.

12. "Across the Universe," Sony, $1,945,219, 364 locations, $5,344 average, $8,078,951, four weeks.

13. "Sydney White," Universal, $1,369,980, 1,593 locations, $860 average, $10,261,815, three weeks.

14. "The Jane Austen Book Club," Sony Pictures Classics, $1,343,596, 1,232 locations, $1,091 average, $1,819,721, three weeks.

15. "In the Valley of Elah," Warner Independent, $1,338,190, 978 locations, $1,368 average, $5,354,603, four weeks.

16. "Into the Wild," Paramount Vantage, $1,279,208, 135 locations, $9,476 average, $2,447,444, three weeks.

17. "The Bourne Ultimatum," Universal, $1,184,685, 975 locations, $1,215 average, $224,476,610, 10 weeks.

18. "Transformers," DreamWorks-Paramount, $933,617, 421 locations, $2,218 average, $316,476,438, 14 weeks.

19. "Superbad," Sony, $882,942, 756 locations, $1,168 average, $120,338,762, eight weeks.

20. "Feast of Love," MGM, $750,258, 1,203 locations, $624 average, $3,021,180, two weeks.

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Universal Pictures and Focus Features are owned by NBC Universal, a joint venture of General Electric Co. and Vivendi Universal; Sony Pictures, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; DreamWorks, Paramount and Paramount Classics are divisions of Viacom Inc.; Disney's parent is The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is a division of The Walt Disney Co.; 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Fox Atomic are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros., New Line, Warner Independent and Picturehouse are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a consortium of Providence Equity Partners, Texas Pacific Group, Sony Corp., Comcast Corp., DLJ Merchant Banking Partners and Quadrangle Group; Lionsgate is owned by Lionsgate Entertainment Corp.; IFC Films is owned by Rainbow Media Holdings, a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corp.

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