‘The Help’ Tops Box Office for 2nd Week Amid Northeast Storm
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The civil rights-era drama “The Help” remained No. 1 for a second weekend in U.S. and Canadian theaters, taking in $14.3 million for Walt Disney Co. and Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks Studios SKG.
The film, about black maids in the racially segregated South, held off three new films, including the revenge drama “Colombiana.” The movie, featuring Zoe Saldana as a professional killer, had sales of $10.3 million to finish second, Hollywood.com Box-Office said today in an e-mailed statement.