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THE LAST SAMURAI came in first at the weekend box office as the Tom Cruise war epic cut down the competition with $24.4 million in ticket sales. In the film, Cruise plays a downtrodden Civil War veteran who reclaims honour by forging a bond with samurai warriors — despite having been brought to Japan to quash their rebellion by training a mercenary army for the Japanese emperor. The debut of Samurai toppled last week's No. 1 movie, Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat, which fell to fifth place with $7.3 million.
The Jessica Alba aspiring-dancer melodrama Honey, the only other new movie opening in wide release, ranked second this weekend with $14 million despite generally poor reviews, some of which compared its story to the infamous Mariah Carey bomb Glitter. In only 126 theaters, a re-release of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring added $431,000 to that film's total gross, bringing it to $313.8 million. New Line Cinema is reissuing the previous two films to a handful of theaters in advance of the Dec. 17 debut of the final Rings instalment: The Return of the King. This coming week, The Two Towers will be in theatres again.
1. The Last Samurai
2. Honey
3. The Haunted Mansion
4. Elf
5. Dr. Seuss' the Cat in the Hat
6. Bad Santa
7. Gothika
8. The Missing
9. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
10. Love Actually
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