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Eagle Eye Soars At Box Office

Posted Sep 28, 08 8:05 PM CDT in Arts & Living 

(Newser) – Eagle Eye flew into first at the weekend box office by grossing $29.2 million, Variety reports. The Diane Lane-Richard Gere romantic drama Nights in Rodanthe swooned into second place with $13.6 million, while Lakeview Terrace ranked a neighborly third by banking $7 million. Spike Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna opened with a disappointing $3.5 million, barely clearing the top ten.


Source: Variety

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In this image released by Sony Pictures, Patrick Wilson and Samuel L. Jackson are shown in a scene from "Lakeview Terrace."   (AP Photo/Sony Pictures, Chuck Zlotnick)
Shia LaBeouf, left, and Michelle Monaghan star as two unsuspecting Americans drawn into a mysterious conspiracy in the race-against-time thriller "Eagle Eye."   (AP Photo/Dreamworks and Paramount Pictures, Ralph Nelson)
Cast members Shia LaBeouf, right, and Michelle Monaghan pose together at the premiere of "Eagle Eye" in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008.   (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
Matteo Sciabordi, Omar Benson Miller, and Michael Ealy, are shown in a scene from "Miracle at St. Anna," the story of four black American soldiers stationed in Tuscany during Word War II.   (AP Photo/Disney Enterprises, David Lee)
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