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Inception fends off Salt

With the weekend box office numbers now final, it is clear that all the promotional tote bags in the world couldn’t help Angelina Jolie’s SALT from upsetting Chris Nolan’s INCEPTION from the top spot at the box office.

The final numbers are Inception $43.7 million on the weekend, Salt in second place with $36 million. Despicable Me was a distant third with $23 million and no one else even cracked $10 million.

Of course, this weekend will be interesting as the kid-friendly Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore makes a challenge to the adults-only Inception. Charlie St. Cloud could quietly do well, also. And there’s always a chance Dinner for Schmucks could break $10 million, which could lift box office results overall.

We’ll see.

Inception looks to withstand Jolie…

The very smart thriller, Inception, appears as though it will hold off a strong challenge from Angelina Jolie’s new thriller, Salt. In Friday returns, Inception drew $13.2 million while Salt drew $12.7 million, with both films seemingly on a course to break the $35 million mark before the weekend’s out.

That would be a strong second-week showing by Inception and a decent, if not dazzling, debut by Salt. Despicable Me, the animated children’s film, is the only other film likely to break the $10 million weekend barrier, as fourth-place-at-the-moment children’s live-action flick, Ramona and Beezus, based on the Beverly Cleary children’s classic that was around when I was in grade school, was trailing a distant fourth place with only about $3.0 million on Friday, good enough to stay ahead of Nic Cage’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.

So while Jolie’s SALT continues to set spirometer ablaze, mark me down for being more interested in Chris Nolan’s latest “film between Batman films” offering, Inception.