 Barbershop reunites Cedric and Ice Cube |
Comedy Barbershop 2 has topped the North American box office in its debut weekend, taking $25.1m (�13.5m). Barbershop 2 reunites Ice Cube and Cedric the Entertainer from 2002's hit comedy set in a clip joint in Chicago.
Kurt Russell's feel-good hockey film Miracle opened at number two with $19.4m (�10.4m), according to estimates.
The family film Catch That Kid, about a girl who organises a bank robbery to pay for her father's surgery, opened at number six with $6m (�3.2m).
The overall box office fell, with the top 12 movies grossing $92.8m (�50m), down 9% from the same weekend last year.
 | Box Office Top 5 1. Barbershop 2 2. Miracle 3. You Got Served 4. Along Came Polly 5. The Butterfly Effect |
Showing on 2,711 screens, Barbershop 2 averaged a strong $9,259 per screen, compared to a $7,464 average in 2,605 cinemas for Miracle. The film also features Queen Latifah in a small role as a salon owner next door, the setting for her own spin-off movie, Beauty Shop, which is due for release in November.
Bernardo Bertolucci 's The Dreamers debuted with $150,078 (�80,000) at five cinemas in New York and Los Angeles, scoring an impressive average of $30,016 (�16,100) a cinema.
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