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New film &#8220;My Life in Ruins,&#8221; which opened moderately wide at 1164 theatres, barely made a mark, scoring $3.2 million for ninth place.<\/p>\n<p><B>Weekend Top Ten:<\/b><br \/>\n1)   Up &#8211; $44.2 million ($137.3 million)<br \/>\n2)   The Hangover &#8211; $43.3 million<br \/>\n3)   Land of the Lost &#8211; $19.5 million<br \/>\n4)   Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian &#8211; $14.7 million ($127.3 million)<br \/>\n5)   Star Trek &#8211; $8.4 million ($222.8 million)<br \/>\n6)   Terminator: Salvation &#8211; $8.2 million ($105.5 million)<br \/>\n7)   Drag Me to Hell &#8211; $7.3 million ($28.5 million)<br \/>\n8)   Angels &#038; Demons &#8211; $6.5 million ($116.1 million)<br \/>\n9)   My Life in Ruins &#8211; $3.2 million<br \/>\n10) Dance Flick &#8211; $2 million ($22.7 million)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Weekend Box Office: Comeback Win for &quot;Up&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Friday night belonged to comedy newcomer &quot;The Hangover,&quot; 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