Box Office Leaders

Grossing $20.8 million last weekend, Prom Night is a fun high school slasher flick. A girl’s prom night is supposed to be the most magical evening of her life – one where she can look and feel as glamorous as she wants, let her worries go, and be protected from the horrors of her past, whatever they might be. Donna and her friends were having the time of their life, until a gruesome murder happens. She believes that the murderer is a man from her life whom she thought was gone forever. Now she and her friends need to think of a way to escape the serial killer and his sadisic murders, and make it through their prom night alive.

Scott B. Smith’s The Ruins is a fast-paced thriller that grossed $7,840,000 on its first weekend. Starring Jonathan Tucker and Jenna Malone, The Ruins follows the story of a group of friends on a leisurely vacation in Mexico. Their trip becomes more interesting when they get invited by a fellow tourist to go on an archaeological dig in the jungle. But when one of them goes missing, their journey into the jungle to find him leads them to a ruin, where something dangerous and disturbing lurks.

Horton Hears A Who is a charming, big-screen adaptation of the Dr. Seuss story of the same name. Grossing a total of $9,100,000 during the weekend run, Horton Hears A Who is about an elephant named Horton who one day hears a tiny cry for help from a speck of dust. Although he doesn’t see anyone or anything on the dust speck, he makes up his mind to help whoever it is. He discovers that the speck of dust is the home of the Whos that live in Whoville city. Horton decides to protect the Who’s, despite being criticized and teased by neighbors who can’t believe that anything could be alive on a speck of dust.

Leatherheads is a romantic comedy with George Clooney starring as Dodge Connolly, a brash football hero determined to move his pro-football team forward. However, the team loses their sponsor and the whole league looks like it’s about to disband for good. In a desperate attempt to save the team, Dodge convinces a college football player to join the team and introduces him as Carter Rutherford, a war hero who singlehandedly forced German soldiers to surrender. Renee Zellweiger is Lexie Littleton, a rookie journalist who suspects something wrong with Carter’s story. But the more she investigates, the more Dodge and Carter become rivals for her affection.