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Borat Still Tops at Box Office

BORAT!: CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN easily held its lead atop the box office chart for the weekend ended Nov. 12, 2006, taking in $28.2M for Fox. The politically incorrect and controversial comedy now has a two-week cume of $67.1M.

Holding second and third were THE SANTA CLAUSE 3: THE ESCAPE CLAUSE (vfx from Tippett Studio and Furious FX), which delivered $16.9M and $41M or Buena Vista, and the 3D-animated FLUSHED AWAY, which captured $16.6M and $39.8M for Aardman/DreamWorks.

Debuting in fourth place with $13.4M was Sonys STRANGER THAN FICTION (with vfx from Intelligent Creatures, Double Negative, Digital Dimension and Mokko Studio, among others). Slipping to fifth was SAW III (with vfx from Switch VFX). The Lionsgate horror film picked up another $6.9M for a cume of $70.2M. Paramount Vantages BABEL (with vfx from Intelligent Creatures and Lola Visual Effects) shot up the charts to sixth place with $5.5M and $7.3M. THE DEPARTED (vfx from The Basement, Lola Visual Effects and Ockhams Razor) followed in seventh, adding another $5.1M for a cume of $109.7M for Warner Bros.the highest grosser for the director. Chris Nolans magic thriller, THE PRESTIGE (with vfx by Buf), dropped to eighth place, conjuring $4.7M and a cume of $46.1. Debuting in ninth and 10th were THE RETURN from Rogue Pictures, which tallied $4.4M (with vfx from Mr. X), and Foxs A GOOD YEAR, which harvested $3.7M. Box office information obtained from boxofficemojo.com.

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Bill Desowitz, former editor of VFXWorld, is currently the Crafts Editor of IndieWire.