Here are the weekend estimates at the North American box office this past weekend:

1 Bangkok Dangerous $7,800,000
2 Tropic Thunder $7,500,000
3 The House Bunny $5,900,000
4 The Dark Knight $5,715,000
5 Traitor $4,660,000
6 Babylon A.D. $4,000,000
7 Death Race $3,595,000
8 Disaster Movie $3,300,000
9 Mamma Mia! $2,713,000
10 Pineapple Express $2,400,000

It was a fairly uninteresting weekend at the box office, as the post-summer slump begins. The total takings for the weekend were only half of what they were a month ago as blockbusters start to lose speed and not so big movies make their debuts.

Nicolas Cage is back on the screen in BANGKOK DANGEROUS taking out number one spot, but it couldn't break the 10 million barrier, opening only to 7.8 million. He's got a lot of films coming out next year so hopefully one of those will do better. This film had a budget of 45 million so it could have started better.

Vin Diesel's new film BABYLON AD slumped to sixth in its second weekend. The film has not been well received and its box office seems to be following the same pattern. The film currently sits with 17.1 million.

Most of the other films seemed to stay in the same position that they were last week. THE DARK KNIGHT is again worth mentioning, now reaching 512 million in total box office. It will likely finish its run with between 520-530 million.

The North American box office took in a total of 51.6 million for the weekend 5-7 September 2008.