Warner Bros.' mega-blockbuster Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone slid one slot to second place in its fourth week with a still enviable ESTIMATED $14.81 million (-37%) at 3,672 theaters (theater count unchanged; $4,032 per theater). Its cume is approximately $239.7 million, heading for the high $300 millions in domestic theaters.

Directed by Chris Columbus, Harry stars Daniel Radcliffe in its title role.

"It's nice that it's starting to stabilize itself at the moment," Warners' Fellman said. "That's a pretty good drop off of 37 percent (with other Top Ten films falling in the 40-60 percent range). The box office will continue to build as the holidays approach. I looked at Toy Story 2, which opened (via Buena Vista) on the same weekend we did a year ago. After this weekend, it had $140 million in. We have $240 million in. From this weekend on, they grossed another $105 million. Who knows where we're going? But we're going to go certainly at least in that direction. We've been out there for 24 days and we've averaged $10 million a day. Not a bad way to go!"

Reflecting on the outstanding year that Warners has enjoyed, Fellman noted, "This is the eighth film of the year that we've opened number one and it's the eleventh week that we've had a number one movie. This weekend our combined product in the marketplace represented 40 percent of all screens in North America. If you take the box office of $54 million for the top two pictures out of the Top Ten, which I have at (approximately) $82 million, you can see the domination that we had in the marketplace this weekend."

Even before Ocean's sailed into theaters, Warners ranked as the year's top distributor in terms of market share. "We passed the $1 billion barrier last week," Fellman said, "which is the second time in our company's history that we've done that. After this weekend, we will surpass our company's record of $1.06 billion and we will have an opportunity shortly to challenge the all-time box office record by a single company, which was Sony with $1.26 billion in 1997."

20th Century Fox and Davis Entertainment's PG-13 rated war drama Behind Enemy Lines got shot down in its second week, falling one peg to third place with a much slower ESTIMATED $8.11 million (-54%) at 2,884 theaters (+74 theaters; $2,852 per theater). Its cume is approximately $31.2 million.

Directed by John Moore, it stars Owen Wilson and Gene Hackman.

Buena Vista/Disney and Pixar Animation Studios' G rated computer animated feature Monsters, Inc. showed good legs in its sixth week, holding on to fourth place with a still colorful ESTIMATED $6.67 million (-27%) at 2,884 theaters (-506 theaters; $2,314 per theater). Its cume is approximately $212.5 million, heading for at least $245-250 million in domestic theaters.

To beat DreamWorks' animated blockbuster Shrek, Monsters will have to crack $268 million at this point.

Directed by Pete Docter, it was co-directed by Lee Unkrich and David Silverman and written by Andrew Stanton and Daniel Gerson.