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<em>The Help</em> Wins A Slow Week At The Box Office

by Bill Wine

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - The weather was only part of the reason why it was a slow weekend at the box office. East coast weather worries helped to make this the slowest box-office weekend since early February.

The Help, helped also by the lack of strong competition, that helped itself to a second straight first-place finish at the box office.In its third weekend of release, the racially-themed drama earned an estimated $14-million, putting it ahead of the three new releases.

Second place went to the debuting action thriller, Colombiana, with Zoe Saltana, which took in $10-million. The horror thriller, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, was third with $9-million, while the comedy, Our Idiot Brother, starring Paul Rudd, took fourth with $7-million.

Overall, The Help is the one bright spot on the characteristically modest late-summer box office landscape.

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