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Identity Displaces Anger At Box Office

Sony topped itself at the weekend box office in the U.S. with its IDENTITY debuting in first place, taking in $17M. K.N.B. EFX Group Inc. did VFX work for the suspense flick. Sony/Revolutions' ANGER MANAGEMENT dropped to second place in its third week, taking in another $16M to rack up a total of $104.5M. Sony Pictures Imageworks and The Orphanage did VFX for ANGER. Buena Vista's comedy family/adventure HOLES dipped to third place with $12.9M and a $36.8M cume. Digital FilmWorks and Avtoma of L.A. contributed visual effects for VFX supervisor William Mesa, founder of Flash Film Works, whose studio did the majority of the work for the film from Walt Disney Pictures. MALIBU'S MOST WANTED came in fourth with $7.7M and $24.2M for its second week of release. C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures did some of the VFX work for the Warner Bros. release. CONFIDENCE from Lions Gate debuted in fifth place with $4.7M. Pixel Magic and Pacific Title contributed VFX in the con-men drama. BULLETPROOF MONK dropped to sixth place with $4.6M and a $19.2M cume. Eyetronics did 3D scanning, while Burt Ward and his Boy Wonder VFX did visual effects along with Ian Locke at Millwright. The main title sequence was done by New Wave Entertainment for the MGM release. Warner Bros.' WHAT A GIRL WANTS, VFX work done by Cinesite, slipped to seventh place at $3.3M and a $33M take so far. Twentieth Century Fox's PHONE BOOTH, with VFX by Asylum, dropped to eighth place taking in $3.1M and a $40.3M cume. MGM'S IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY, starring Kirk and Michael Douglas, made the top 10 box office, debuting in ninth place with $3M. New Line's docu-movie THE REAL CANCUN was the last of four debuting films, coming in at tenth place with $2.3M. Box office information obtained from boxofficemojo.com.

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