Paramount's R rated road rage drama Changing Lanes held at a steady speed in second place in its third week with an ESTIMATED $9.0 million (-19%) at 2,642 theaters (theater count unchanged; $3,407 per theater). Its cume is approximately $44.5 million.
Directed by Roger Michell, it stars Ben Affleck and Samuel L Jackson.
"It's (on its way domestically to) $65-70 million, I think," Paramount distribution president Wayne Lewellen said Sunday morning. "It's holding very well. It goes back to (the idea that) when you don't have a lot of product coming into the marketplace, whatever is there gets an opportunity to breathe. We'll see what happens this weekend with Spider-Man. We should be a good alternative to that."
20th Century Fox's opening of Regency Enterprises' PG-13 rated drama Life Or Something Like It was an uneventful third with an ESTIMATED $6.65 million at 2,606 theaters ($2,552 per theater).
Directed by Stephen Herek, it stars Angelina Jolie and Edward Burns.
New Line Cinema's R rated horror genre sequel Jason X
kicked off in fourth place to a solid ESTIMATED $6.5 million at 1,878 theaters ($3,461 per theater).
Directed by Jim Isaac, it stars Kane Hodder.
"It was in the range of our expectations," New Line distribution president David Tuckerman said Sunday morning.
Noting that the picture was not an expensive negative, Tuckerman pointed out, "We don't have to do very much to break even."
Asked who the audience was, Tuckerman said, "It's under 25, that's for sure. And I saw with my own eyes the other night, it looks pretty close to being 50-50 between men and women."
Castle Rock Entertainment's Murder by Numbers fell two pegs to fifth place in its second week via Warner Bros. with a quiet ESTIMATED $6.31 million (-32%) at 2,663 theaters (theater count unchanged; $2,370 per theater). Its cume is approximately $18.3 million.
Directed by Barbet Schroeder, it stars Sandra Bullock.
Buena Vista/Disney's G rated family appeal baseball drama The Rookie slid two bases to place sixth in its fifth week with a still strong ESTIMATED $5.4 million (-16%) at 2,543 theaters (+36 theaters; $2,128 per theater). Its cume is approximately $60.6 million.
Directed by John Lee Hancock, it stars Dennis Quaid.
20th Century Fox's PG rated animated feature Ice Age fell one notch to seventh place in its seventh week, still holding nicely with an ESTIMATED $4.63 million (-22%) at 2,594 theaters (-226 theaters; $1,782 per theater). Its cume is approximately $165.4 million, heading for $175 million or more in domestic theaters.
Directed by Chris Wedge, it features the voices of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo and Denis Leary.
Columbia's R rated thriller Panic Room slipped three rungs to eighth place in its fifth week, holding okay with an ESTIMATED $4.2 million (-30%) at 2,463 theaters (-362 theaters; $1,705 per theater). Its cume is approximately $87.7 million, on its way to $90 million-plus in domestic theaters.
Directed by David Fincher, it stars Jodie Foster.