Sydney Pollack’s THE INTERPRETER, starring Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn, captured the top spot at the box office in its debut weekend ended April 24, 2005. The old-fashioned suspense thriller took in $22.8M for Universal, upending MGM’s remake of THE AMITYVILLE HORROR, last week’s champ, which hauled in $13.7M and $44.3M for a second place finish. Paramount’s SAHARA (with vfx from Cinesite and Double Negative) dropped to third with $9M for a cume of $48.9M. Buena Vista’s A LOT LIKE LOVE with Amanda Peet and Ashton Kutcher bowed in fourth place with $7.5M. Sony Picture Classics’ KUNG FU HUSTLE shot up to fifth place with $6.7M (with vfx help from Centro Digital Pictures) as it went into wide release. Fox’s FEVER PITCH settled for the sixth slot with $5.5M and $31.5M. Dimension’s SIN CITY (aided by vfx from CafeFx, Hybride and The Orphanage) fell to seventh place with $3.7M and $67.2M. Sony’s GUESS WHO occupied the eighth spot with $3.5M and $62.3M. Fox/Blue Sky’s 3D-animated ROBOTS settled for ninth place with $3.4M and a handsome cume of $120.2M. And New Line’s KING’S RANSOM debuted in ninth with $2.1M. Box office information obtained from boxofficemojo.com.