BOX OFFICE

HELLUVA BOW Frank the dog may have barked MIBII into first again, but Tom Hanks is taking the high Road. Despite a medium-size release and various nabobs nattering that Academy fish won’t bite Oscar bait this early in the year, Road to Perdition made other newcomers look like pug uglies, drawing comparisons to another Hanks summertime smash, Saving Private Ryan. Elsewhere, Reign of Fire slew 15.6 million dragons, to land in third. And summer’s biggest, fattest indie box office story is My Big Fat Greek Wedding (see story, page 19), which hit the $27 million mark.

TOP 20 WEEKEND WEEKS GROSS WEEKEND NO. OF PER-SITE IN TO GROSS* SITES[1] AVERAGE RELEASE DATE

1 MEN IN BLACK II Columbia $24.4 3,611 $6,760 2 $132.7 2 ROAD TO PERDITION DreamWorks $22.1 1,797 $12,287 1 $22.1 3 REIGN OF FIRE Touchstone $15.6 2,629 $5,946 1 $15.6 4 HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION Dimension $12.3 1,954 $6,291 1 $12.3 5 MR. DEEDS Columbia $10.8 3,239 $3,347 3 $94.0 6 THE CROCODILE HUNTER: COLLISION COURSE MGM $9.5 2,525 $3,777 1 $9.5 7 LILO & STITCH Disney $8.0 2,940 $2,730 4 $118.4 8 LIKE MIKE 20th Century Fox $7.0 2,436 $3,216 2 $32.8 9 MINORITY REPORT 20th Century Fox $7.2 2,419 $2,983 4 $110.1 10 THE BOURNE IDENTITY Universal $5.8 2,199 $2,620 5 $99.0 11 SCOOBY-DOO Warner Bros. $3.7 2,475 $1,506 5 $145.0 12 MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING IFC $2.2 495 $4,505 13 $27.0 13 THE SUM OF ALL FEARS Paramount $1.9 1,150 $1,671 7 $115.1 14 THE POWERPUFF GIRLS MOVIE Warner Bros. $1.6 2,210 $718 2 $9.6 15 DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA-YA SISTERHOOD Warner Bros. $1.5 1,107 $1,358 6 $64.7 16 STAR WARS: EPISODE II– OF ATTACK THE CLONES 20th Century Fox $1.3 632 $2,028 9 $293.8 17 WINDTALKERS MGM $1.2 1,485 $800 5 $38.6 18 SPIDER-MAN Sony $0.9 574 $1,551 11 $402.0 19 SPACE STATION IMAX $0.6 60 $10,776 13 $13.6 20 HEY ARNOLD! THE MOVIE Paramount $0.6 2,021 $302 3 $12.6

SOURCE: NIELSEN EDI. WEEKEND OF JULY 12-14 *WEEKEND GROSS AND GROSS-TO-DATE FIGURES IN MILLIONS

[1]INCLUDES SOME MULTISCREEN THEATERS AND PRINTS SHIPPED AS WELL AS INDIVIDUAL SCREENS