'Shutter Island' Wins Again In The Sunday Box Office Report

1. "Shutter Island" ($22.2 million)
2. "Cop Out" ($18.6 million)
3. "The Crazies" ($16.5 million)
4. "Avatar" ($14 million)
5. "Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief" ($9.8 million)

The ghosts of "Shutter Island" continued to haunt the box office this weekend with another first place finish. Having already won the top spot last weekend and on Friday, director Martin Scorsese and star Leonardo DiCaprio's most recent collaboration remained in front of the pack by Sunday's conclusion with $22.2 million. With a domestic gross of $75 million and a foreign intake of $4.6 million after two weeks in theaters, Paramount's latest thriller is a stone's throw away from earning back its $80 million production budget.

New releases "Cop Out" and "The Crazies" battled it out for the weekend's second place slot, having a mere $5,000 difference between them going into Saturday morning. Ultimately, director Kevin Smith's latest comedy, which stars Bruce Willis and Tracey Morgan as a pair of mismatched police officers chasing down a petty thief played by Seann William Scott, bested "The Crazies" by a $2.1 million margin. Although business could have been better, "Cop Out" and "The Crazies" enjoyed successful weekends due to the relatively inexpensive production costs for both films, with Breck Eisner's horror remake already well within reach of its reported $20 million budget.

James Cameron's "Avatar" stayed strong in its eleventh weekend in theaters. With a fourth place finish worth $14 million, the science fiction adventure has officially broken past $700 million in domestic ticket sales. "Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief," meanwhile, took the final spot in the top five, causing Friday's fifth place finisher "Valentine's Day" to drop to sixth place.

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