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Weekend Receipts: Apes Holds Off The Help in Close Battle; Glee Flops

Hail Caesar! Again! Rise of the Planet of the Apes was the top choice for ticket buyers at the multiplex, becoming only third film this summer to lead the box office for two weekends in a row ( Thor and Transformers: Dark of the Moon were the other two). Outside of the strong runner-up showing for The Help , the frame wasn’t as kind to newcomers: Final Destination 5 disappointed, 30 Minutes or Less lived up to diminished expectations and Glee: The 3D Concert Movie couldn’t even crack the top- ten . Your Weekend Receipts are here.

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Weekend Receipts: Apes Holds Off The Help in Close Battle; Glee Flops

Friday Box Office: Good Night

Score one for the traditionalists! Maybe. If Date Night (a better than expected $9.5 million on Friday) can hold off Clash of the Titans ($7.8 million) for the remainder of the weekend it will become only the fourth non-3D film released this year to lead the box office. And they said two dimensions were dead. Elsewhere: don’t look now, but the assumed disappointment that was How to Train Your Dragon experienced a scant 19% drop from Friday-to-Friday and has slowly become one of the biggest hits in 2010. Dreamworks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg is writing that “Suck it, Pixar!” e-mail right about now. The top-five after the jump.

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Friday Box Office: Good Night