New York - The computer-assisted comedy Beverly Hills Chihuahua towered over the competition over the weekend at US box offices with three-day revenue of 29 million dollars, according to preliminary studio estimates issued Sunday.
With Drew Barrymore and Andy Garcia among the Hollywood actors doing voices for live-action tiny dogs, Beverly Hills Chihuahua opened Friday. The film uses computer animation to supplement footage of real dogs and make them talk.
In the story, a lap dog to California's rich and famous finds herself on an adventure in Mexico, where the toy-sized breed originated.
Beverly Hills Chihuahua pushed last weekend's number one film, Eagle Eye, into second place to start its second week in cinema. The political thriller starring Shia LaBeouf grabbed 17.7 million dollars in sales from Friday to Sunday.
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, stars Michael Cera in a teen romance that opened Friday with ticket sales of 12 million dollars in its first weekend. It ranked third on the three-day box-office chart.
The other movies that debuted on Friday to hit the top-10 list were political.
An American Carol, a comic parody of left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore, had rang up 3.8 million dollars for ninth place.
Religulous, a polemical documentary in Moore's style, by comedian Bill Maher, host of television's Politically Incorrect, was 10th with 3.5 million dollars. The movie ridicules religious faith.
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