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 Dwayne Johnson (still better known as The Rock, even if he does prefer not to be called that any more) took the Buena Vista family-themed Race to Witch Mountain to the top of the box office this week.  Coming in second, with a whopping 67% drop in ticket sales for it’s second week was  Warner Bros. Watchmen .  The latest horror flick, Rogue Pictures’ The Last House on the Left was third and Taken , the Twentieth Century Fox action thriller starring Liam Neeson hung in in fourth, having now taken over a hundred million at the box office.

My pick of new releases to see this week was Race to Witch Mountain, primarily because I had such fond memories of  Escape to Witch Mountain when I was growing up in the 70’s.  As usually happens, I didn’t like it nearly as well as it’s predecessor.  The Rock, or Dwayne Johnson, or whatever you want to call him these days has never been a particular favorite of mine, although I find him likeable enough.  It was nice, though, to see Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann , the two kids from the original movie, make appearances in this one.

Here’s this weekend’s top box office winners, according to  Box Office Mojo :

1.     Race to Witch Mountain/$25 million

2.     Watchmen/$18.1 million

3.     The Last House on the Left/$14.7 million

4.     Taken/$6.7million

5.     Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes To Jail/$5.1 million

6.    Slumdog Millionaire/$5 million

7.     Paul Blart:  Mall Cop/$3.1 million

8.     He’s Just Not That Into You/$2.9 million

9.     Coraline/$2.7 million

10.  Miss March/$2.4 million

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