Dade Hayes of Variety:
On the strength of a stellar Saturday, "Tropic Thunder" topped the box office chart in its second frame with $16.1 million. That brings the cume for DreamWorks-Paramount’s $90 million-plus action comedy to $65.7 million.
The Ben Stiller-directed laffer played on 3,352 screens.
"Tropic" edged out Sony's female-skewing comedy "The House Bunny," which finished with $15.1 million.
Starring Anna Faris, the femme-centered comedy opened on 2,714 screens.
Universal's "Death Race," initially considered a potential weekend winner, settled for third with $12.3 million.
Featuring Jason Statham and Tyrese Gibson in the remake of the 1975 camp classic, the actioner nabbed a per screen average of $4,855 from 2,532 playdates.
"Bunny" and "Death" fared far better than the weekend's other two wide openers. Dimension/MGM's "The Longshots," which grossed $4.3 million and finished in eighth place, or Fox's "The Rocker," whose meager $2.8 million take left it in 12th place, extending Fox's bumpy run of late.
Warner Bros. owned the No. 4 and 5 spots, with "Dark Knight" reaching $489 million domestically on a $103 million weekend and "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" posting a $5.7 million take.
"Hamlet 2," a pricey Sundance pickup for Focus, did not get off to a roaring start. Playing in 103 runs in advance of a 1,500-run wide break Wednesday, it collected $435,294 or $4,226 per screen.
Overall, it was a soft weekend even by late-August standards, with receipts falling a few percentage points from a year ago, though the summer has been surprisingly healthy. The season tally fell a fraction off the pace of last year's record of $4.16 million, though a diverse product mix and earlier-than-usual Labor Day makes equaling the record a possibility.
Joshua Rich of EW:
Ben Stiller's comedy defeated ''The House Bunny'' at the box office, while ''Death Race'' blew a flat...
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