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Horton hears box office gold

Despite a huge, $20 million challenge from Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns, as well as $10 million bows from Shutter and Drillbit Taylor, it was Dr. Suess’ immortal Horton Hears A Who that remained atop the weekend box office charts this weekend, raking in another $25 million. The animated film’s total is now at $86.47 million and growing, certainly making the film with the $85 million investment required to make the movie.

Horton’s search for the Whos of Whoville might have been aided these days by GPS tracking, but even such technological advances won’t recover the $105 million investment it took to make 10,000 BC, which thus far has only made $76 million and is sinking fast.

By far, the worst bow this week belonged to Under the Same Moon, which debuted at 10th with only $2.6 million.

Weekly box office for March 16, 2008

With over $45 million in gross receipts, the celebrity-voice-filled Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who! easily won the weekend box office war, drawing in around $29 million more than its nearest competitor, 10,000 BC, which took in only $16.4 million in its second week of release.

Few people made a directbuy of tickets to one of the other two main first-week releases, Never Back Down, which drew only $8.6 million, but the most disappointing bow was Doomsday, which was indeed doomed when it debuted to only $4.7 million, good enough only for seventh place.

Underdog favorite Juno stayed within the Top 15 movies, adding $1.2 million to its $139 million plus total over 15 weeks of release.