&quot;Lemony Snicket&quot; wins top box office spot
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The film based on the children&#39;s stories called &quot;A Series of Unfortunate Events&quot; took in just over $30 million in its debut.
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Mayan language adventure Apocalypto goes to the top of US box office chart.
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&quot;Meet the Fockers&quot; claimed the top North Amerian box office spot over the lucrative Christmas holiday weekend, grossing $44.7m.
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&quot;Shrek the Third&quot; led  the foreign box office for a third consecutive weekend, earning  more than its two closest competitors combined.
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North American box-office performance as of Sunday for Oscar best-picture nominees:
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It was a tale of two cartoons at the American box office this week, but The Incredibles came out on top. In its second week, Disney&#39;s latest animated tale took $51m (Â£27.
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Jim Carrey recreating a great new character as Count Olaf in &quot;Lemony Snicket&#39;s: A Series of Unfortunate Events&quot; is certain to do the best box office of the weekend, recreating maybe his Grinch
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&gt;&quot;National Treasure&quot; continued to strike box-office gold, taking in an estimated $33.1 million from Friday to Sunday to retain the No.
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The animated comedy took in $31.7 million to hold the No. 1 spot for a second straight weekend. Billy Bob Thornton&#39;s &quot;Friday Night Lights&quot; opened in second place with $20.
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LOS ANGELES &quot;Meet the Fockers&quot; met the record books with the best Christmas weekend debut at the box office. Ben Stiller&#39;s comedy of opposite inlaws raked in almost 45 (m) million dollars, beating the record
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National Treasure beats animated hits at the US box-office.
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Fantasy epic The Golden Compass tops the UK box office chart with first week takings of Â£7.2m.
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The positions of the two new films in this week&#39;s box-office top 10 were easy to predict: #1 if by land, #2 if by sea. New releases &quot;National Treasure&quot; and &quot;The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie&quot; took spots one and two, respectively.
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Overall, this past weekend&#39;s movie box office total wasn&#39;t as fortunate an event as some. &quot;Lemony Snicket&#39;s A Series of Unfortunate Events&quot; was top of the tree, opening with an estimated $30.2 million.
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Pixar Animation&#39;s new film The Incredibles has capped weekend box office charts with $70.7 million in North American ticket sales.
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Supernatural thriller &quot;The Forgotten&quot; soared to the top of the US box office over the weekend with better-than-expected ticket sales during a worse-than-usual seasonal slump.
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highest October box-office pull in history. The DreamWorks flick bowed at #1 with $49.1 million, according to early estimates. A mob flick for the cartoon set, &quot;Shark Tale&quot; centers on a young fish named Oscar