Fox Searchlight's PC-13 rated comedy Bend It Like Beckham kept its place on the list at No. 10 in its 13th week with an ESTIMATED $975,000 (-9%) at 494 theaters (+3 theaters; $1,974 per theater). Its cume is approximately $20.5 million.
Directed by Gurinder Chadha, it stars Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
WEEKEND COMPARISON
The Top 12 films this weekend grossed an ESTIMATED $157 million, down 6.6 percent from last week's take of $168.2 million.
The Top 12, however, were up a whopping 52 percent from last year's $103.3 million total.
Last year, Paramount's PG-13 rated The Sum of All Fears stayed the top of the box office for the second week in a row with $19.2 million at 3,218 theaters ($5,976 per theater), while Warner Bros.' PG-13 rated Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood debuted at No. 2 with $16.1 million in 2,507 theaters ($6,449 per theater); Fox's PG rated Star Wars: Episode II--Attack of the Clones dropped to third place in its third week with $14 million at 3,161 theaters ($4,433 per theater).