'Shutter Island' Keeps The Lead In The Saturday Box Office Report

1. "Shutter Island" ($6.7 million)
2. "Cop Out" ($5.975 million)
3. "The Crazies" ($5.97 million)
4. "Avatar" ($3.1 million)
5. "Valentine's Day" ($2.9 million)

Friday initiated a relatively quiet start to the weekend as director Martin Scorsese and star Leonardo DiCaprio's "Shutter Island" continued its first place lead at the box office with $6.7 million. With Friday's intake, Paramount's latest thriller now boasts a cumulative total of $59.5 million from domestic ticket sales and an additional $4.6 million at the foreign box office. It's likely that "Shutter Island" will recoup its production budget of $80 million by the weekend's conclusion.

Second and third place was a tight battle between the weekend's new releases, director Kevin Smith's comedy "Cop Out" and Breck Eisner's remake of "The Crazies." The Warner Bros. buddy cop flick ultimately took the silver medal, but just barely outgrossed "The Crazies" by a mere $5,000. The two films could easily switch positions before the weekend is over.

Fourth and fifth place belonged to "Avatar" with $3.1 million and "Valentine's Day" with $2.9 million, with James Cameron's science fiction epic currently on pace to cross the $700 million margin by Sunday's end. "Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief" and "The Wolfman" slipped from the top five to sixth and eighth place respectively.

One reason for Friday's relatively slow business was the massive snowstorm that pummeled the American east coast, discouraging several would be moviegoers from checking out the weekend's new releases. If weather clears up on Saturday and Sunday, expect a bit of a boost in the box office's numbers.

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