Hannah Montana storms US box office

Talk about yer counter programming… Disney scored a massive touchdown this weekend – a traditionally slow one for the movies since it also happens to include Superbowl Sunday – by putting up one of its biggest telly stars in what was promised as a short-run, exclusive 3D concert film. Yes, Hannah Montana (whose regular concerts have kids scrapping over tickets) took in a record-setting $29 million in this weekend’s estimated charts with Best Of Both Worlds. That’s more than Titanic managed in the same weekend, and while the Montana tickets were a few dollars more than regular cinema admission, it was only showing on around 800 screens.

Other than the pop princess, there was little good news for the fresh crop of actual movie releases. Jessica Alba’s horror The Eye did decent business, arriving in second with $13 million. But Strange Wilderness and the Eva Longoria Parker/Paul Rudd rom-com Over Her Dead Body bombed, failing to scrape into the top 10.

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