Rise of The Planet Of The Apes" Excellence in Derby Box Office

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Los Angeles (ANTARA News) - The prequel franchise famous Hollywood movie about the monkey has managed to retain the No. 1 position in the North American box office last weekend, while a drama about race relations was opened in second place with a soft appearance.

"Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes", re-making the classic 1968 film "Planet of the Apes" - a story about how the lower primates began to evolve and take over the Earth from humans, is projected to reap 27.5 million U.S. dollars from Friday to Sunday (14 / 8).

The film was launched 10 days earlier, said the North American box office manager, Hollywood.com.

Science-fiction action film 20th Century Fox, starring James Franco, Andy Serkis and Freida Pinto, will pocket an estimated total of 104.9 million revenue dollars over two weeks.

Meanwhile, one of four films released in the United States and Canada on the weekend, "The Help", reaching 25.5 million U.S. dollars over the weekend and more than 35 million U.S. dollars since it was launched Wednesday in the 2534 places in North America.

Comedy-drama with such a small budget - which is based on Kathryn Stockett's famous novel 2009 about a young white woman, Skeeter Phelan, and his relationship with two black servants during the era of Civil Rights in America in the early 1960s - became Tate Taylor's directorial debut.

The film shows Emma Stone, Mike Vogel and Bryce Dallas Howard and made with a budget of only 25 million U.S. dollars, according to Xinhua reports - which monitored ANTARA here on Monday.

Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported 73 percent of 122 professional critics gave the film a positive review. The audience gave him an A +, said CinemaScore.

Just like a movie that centered on race relations such as the Academy Award-winning "Driving Miss Daisy," "The Help" previously widely expected to appear attractive are many audiences across the country, and apparently will have a place in the Academy Award.

"Driving Miss Daisy" pocketed as much as 100 million U.S. dollars in North America and won four Academy Awards including Best Picture at the Academy Awards to 62 in 1989.

"Final Destination 5", 3-D thriller about the franchise "Final Destination" was released by New Line Cinema, first aired in third place, with an estimated 18.4 million U.S. dollars revenue.

"The Smurfs" 3-D family film released by Columbia Pictures, entrenched in fourth place, with revenues of 13.5 million U.S. dollars over three weeks and earned 101.5 million U.S. dollars. It is a film aksi-langsung/CGI grafts produced by Sony Pictures Animation.

Sony's action-comedy film with a category Adult "30 Minutes or Less" occupied the 5th position by earning 13 million dollars in its debut. It is a comedy film with a seventh category of Adults who enter the box office in the summer of this year.

The film becomes a vehicle for Jesse Eisenberg - "The Social Network" - which played a pizza deliveryman in his chest fitted with a bomb and forced to rob a bank.