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"Race To Witch Mountain" #1
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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson takes the #1 spot at the movie box office for the second time in a Disney row - following his Disney debut in 2007 with "The Game Plan."

This weekend, "The Rock" or - as we now know him as - Dwayne Johnson - took the #1 spot at the movie box office in Walt Disney's reimagination of their "Witch Mountain" movie franchise - "Race To Witch Mountain." The film grabbed $25 million its first three days in theaters. Not a movie box office spectacular by any means but good enough to have earned $7 million more than the #2 movie of the weekend, "Watchmen."

Last week's #1 movie, "Watchmen," dropped almost 80% - from its opening day gross - its second Friday in movie theaters, but wound up with the #2 spot at the weekend movie box office.

The #3 movie of the weekend, "Last House On The Left," was the only movie in the weekend Top 10 to see its box office drop Saturday - from its Friday take.

The Fox Searchlight comedy "Miss March" bombed, with just over $2 million, its first weekend in movie theaters, while "Taken" and "Madea," both in movie theaters for weeks, continue to amass huge fortunes at the movie box office, each remaining in the Top 5.

Below, the Top 25 Movies at the Box Office March 13-15, 2009

1 Race to Witch Mountain - 3,187 Theaters - $7,844 Theaters - NEW $25,000,000

2 Watchmen - $18,070,000 - 3,611 Theaters - $5,004 Per Screen - Gross $86,005,000

3 The Last House on the Left - 2,401 Theaters - $6,105 Per Screen - NEW $14,658,000

4 Taken - $6,650,000 - 2,858 Theaters - $2,327 Per Screen - Gross $126,833,000

5 Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail - $5,130,000 - 2,203 Theaters - $2,329 Per Screen - Gross $83,209,000

6 Slumdog Millionaire - $5,025,000 - 2,578 Theaters - $1,949 Per Screen - Gross $132,625,000

7 Mall Cop - $3,100,000 - 2,281 Theaters - $1,359 Per Screen - Gross $137,767,000

8 He's Just Not That Into You - $2,905,000 - 1,890 Theaters - $1,537 Per Screen - Gross $89,004,000

9 Coraline - $2,655,000 - 1,768 Theaters - $1,502 Per Screen - Gross $69,144,000

10 Miss March - 1,742 Theaters - $1,349 Per Screen - NEW $2,350,000

11 Confessions of a Shopaholic - $2,004,000 - 1,591 Theaters - $1,260 Per Screen - Gross $41,357,000

12 Fired Up - $1,650,000 - 1,518 Theaters - $1,087 Per Screen - Gross $15,435,000

13 Gran Torino - $1,500,000 - 1,102 Theaters - $1,361 Per Screen - Gross $143,824,000

14 The Reader - $1,346,000 - 1,002 Theaters - $1,343 Per Screen - Gross $31,924,000

15 Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience - $906,000 - 968 Theaters - $936 Per Screen - Gross $18,207,000

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