US Box Office
At the US box office pole position is Will Ferrell setting a personal opening record with Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, a NASCAR comedy racing by with some $47 million.
Not as long a title, so they’ll have to settle with the runner up spot, is Barnyard: The Original Party Animals. CGI animation, written and directed by Steve Oedekerk, brings in $16 million.
Third place is Pirates of the Carribean, bringing in another $11 million worth of gold. It probably has enough wind behind the sails to slowly float by the $400 million mark this or next week (cume now at $379.8 million).
Rounding out the top 5 is sharp dropper Miami Vice with $9.7 million and low budget UK thriller The Descent with $8.8 million.