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Amy Adams was nominated for an Oscar for her turn in Junebug and she traded barbs with John C. Reilly and Will Ferrell in Talledega Nights,? but now she can add number one movie to her growing resume.? Probably doesn’t hurt that Enchanted was a family comedy paying homage and riffing on famed Disney movies, or that it also starred McDreamy, Patrick Dempsey.? Whatever the reason, Enchanted crushed the Thanksgiving box-office with $55 million in sales.

This was the second biggest Thanksgiving opening, behind Toy Story 2’s $80.1 million in 1999.? Sliding in at #2 was the “urban” holiday flick This Christmas.? I put urban in air quotes because it seems to baffle media outlets on how to describe a holiday movie with a predominantly black cast.? So they say it was an unexpected surprise that it generated a healthy $27.1 million.

The problem is that this type of thing happens whenever a movie similar to this does well, whether it’s a flick by Tyler Perry or Friday, or whatever.? It’s almost insulting that it’s labeled “urban,” might as well just call it “the holiday movie starring black folks who eat chitlins and fried chicken.”? Either distinction is just as reprehensible.

Beowulf, Hitman and Bee Movie round out the top five, respectively.

The Coen Brothers No Country For Old Men continued to impress in limited release.? Showing on only 860 theaters, it managed to pull in $8.1 million, or a per screen average of $9,432.? Next to This Christmas’s per screen average that was by far the highest this weekend.

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The weekend box office went from a hellish biker to the site of flabby bikers. Though Ghostrider dropped to just third place, the turgid midsections of John Travolta, Bill Macey, Martin Lawrence and Tim Allen propelled Wild Hogs to the run away top spot of the box office this past weekend.

Wild Hogs racked up an eye-popping $38 million on 4,100 screens. Yeah, you read that right, $38 million! Who the hell is going to see this movie, especially with the latest Fincher masterpiece Zodiac released the same weekend. I assume no one wants to sit through a three-hour movie? What about Craig Brewer’s follow up to Hustle and Flow, the southern tale Black Snake Moan? It’s been parodied on SNL. Although that probably just proves how out of touch SNL is. No one has any desire to watch a tale about a bluesman and a nymphomaniac? I’m guessing Black Snake Moan just didn’t have enough marketing power as many people I’ve talked to hadn’t even heard of it. Thoughts and comments? Did anyone go see Wild Hogs? If so we’d love to hear why and if it was any good?
The full box office below, courtesy of Box Office Mojo.

1. Wild Hogs $38,000,000
2. Zodiac $13,100,000
3. Ghostrider $11,500,000
4. Bridge To Terebithia $8,587,000
5. The Number 23 $7,050,000
6. Norbit $6,446,000
7. Music and Lyrics $4,895,000
8. Black Snake Moan $4,016,000
9. Reno 911!: Miami $3,750,000
10. Breach $3,483,000
11. Amazing Grace $3,002,000