Box Office Still in a Haze as 'The Fog' Wins the Weekend

Critically maligned horror re-make "The Fog" had just enough audience to edge last week's box office champ, "Wallace & Gromit," in another hazy box-office weekend for Hollywood.  "The Fog" finished with a $12.2 million in estimated box office cash to win the weekend.

The Fog Wins Weekend Box Office

The numbers of the top films this weekend are abysmal.  "Wallace & Gromit," released by DreamWorks Animation SKG, dropped 27 percent from its opening weekend to $11.7 million.  In third place Cameron Crowe's quirky romance "Elizabethtown," starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst grabbed an estimated $11 million.

The Jodie Foster thriller "Flightplan," nabbed fourth place with estimated ticket sales of $6.5 million. Fifth place goes to"In Her Shoes," with $6.1 million in estimated box office receipts.

Tony Scott's action thriller "Domino," starring the striking Keira Knightley - completely flopped with $4.7 million, coming in sixth.

Hollywood's box office business continued to slump, with the top 12 movies taking in only $72.2 million, down a full 18 percent from the same weekend in 2004.

Theater revenues are running about 7 percent behind last year's, while with higher ticket prices, admissions are down 10 percent.

The Top Ten:

1. "The Fog," $12.2 million.

2. "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit," $11.7 million.

3. "Elizabethtown," $11 million.

4. "Flightplan," $6.5 million.

5. "In Her Shoes," $6.1 million.

6. "Domino," $4.7 million.

7. "Two for the Money," $4.6 million.

8. "A History of Violence," $3.6 million.

9. "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride," $3.5 million.

10. "The Gospel," $3.2 million.

--Cris Bergman