Weekend Box Office -- Ice Age 2 A Worldwide Hit

Here's the weekend box office total.s Ice Age 2 dropped almost 50%, but since it opened so big, that doesn't seem telling to me. The movie is still far outpacing the original. Also, overseas it is a blockbuster. In the rest of the world, Ice Age 2 grossed $93 million, bringing its overseas box office to $156 and its worldwide gross hitting $270 million. Yes, there will be an Ice Age 3. I was wrong about Thank You For Smoking, which continues to build on good word of mouth and hits the top ten. Next week, it'll be on 1000 screens. In limited release, the Jennifer Aniston drama Friends With Money opened on 28 screens with a very strong $22,000 per screen average.

1. Ice Age: The Meltdown -- $34.5 ($116 million total)
2. Benchwarmers -- $20.5 million
3. Take The Lead -- $12.8 million
4. Inside Man -- $9.2 ($66.1 million)
5. Lucky Number Slevin -- $7.1 million
6. Failure To Launch -- $4.1 ($79.1 million)
7. ATL -- $3.8 ($17.3 million)
8. V For Vendetta -- $3.4 ($62.3 million)
9. Phat Girlz -- $3.1 million
10. Thank You For Smoking -- $2.4 ($6.3 million)