Beowulf slaughters the US box office

America has spoken, cinematically at least, and what the country wanted this weekend was a naked, muscled Ray Winstone battling a naked, golden Angelina Jolie. All right, so there’s more to the movie than those two, but they were all over the advertising. Despite the hype and its position at the top of the charts, Beowulf’s spoils of victory aren’t that huge – the movie took in just $28 million, which is not amazing for a film released on more than 3,000 screens.

Still, it put it ahead of last week’s bounce-back champ Bee Movie, which flew back down to second with $14.3 million, bringing its total to $93.8 million. And American Gangster at third slipped over the $100 million mark by one million dollars to start earning some profit in its third week.

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