ANGELS FLIES TO BOX OFFICE LEAD
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle debuted with $38 million, off $2.1 million from the opening numbers the first movie put up in November 2000.
The previous weekend's No. 1 movie, The Hulk, fell to second place, tumbling 70% from its $62.1 million opening. The Hulk took in $18.4 million to squeak past the $100 million mark after 10 days in theaters.
Finding Nemo held up well in third place with $13.9 million. With $253.9 million in the bank, the animated adventure is on track to pass The Matrix Reloaded as the year's top-grossing movie.
The British fright flick 28 Days Later managed to take fourth place with an unexpectedly strong $9.7 million while playing in barely a third as many theaters as the big-studio movies.
This week brings two eagerly awaited sequels, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, plus the animated family film Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas. All three open Wednesday to get a jump on the Fourth of July weekend.
