Warner Bros.' mega-blockbuster Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone fell three rungs to ninth place in its eighth week with a less magical ESTIMATED $6.1 million (-44%) at 2,681 theaters (-505 theaters; $2,275 per theater). Its cume is approximately $300.6 million, heading for $330 million or more in domestic theaters.
Directed by Chris Columbus, Harry stars Daniel Radcliffe in its title role.
"That's Warner Bros.' first $300 million movie," Warner Bros. Distribution's Dan Fellman said Sunday morning.
Rounding out the Top Ten was Buena Vista/Disney and Pixar Animation Studios' G rated computer animated feature Monsters, Inc. , down one notch in its tenth week with an okay ESTIMATED $4.0 million (-34%) at 1,425 theaters (-276 theaters; $2,824 per theater). Its cume is approximately $244.8 million, heading for $260-270 million in domestic theaters.
Directed by Pete Docter, it was co-directed by Lee Unkrich and David Silverman and written by Andrew Stanton and Daniel Gerson.
"Somewhere in the $260 millions," Buena Vista Distribution president Chuck Viane said Sunday morning about where Monsters could wind up domestically. "We've got holidays ahead of us still and everything looks pretty good to me."