1408's opening weekend is a huge coup for the studio, which adapted the King short story for a mere $25 million, while rumors had been circulating for months that the cost of Evan Almighty had blown up into the range of $175 to $200 million, an amount that won't be recouped solely by its U.S. theatrical run, that will be lucky to bring in half that amount. By comparison, 1408 averaged $7,500 per theatre to the higher profile sequel's $8,900.

Michael Winterbottom's A Mighty Heart, starring Angelina Jolie as Mariane Pearl, also went against its own title, delivering a weak $4 million opening in 1,355 theatres to wind up in tenth place, averaging less than $3,000 per theatre. It's interesting to note that despite its relative lack of success, it is already the highest grossing film of the prolific filmmaker.

The rest of the Top 10 was filled in by returning movies, many of which held up well from last week. 20th Century Fox's Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer wasn't one of them. It dropped over 65% from its impressive opening while battling with 1408 for which will take second place, and after ten days, it hasn't reached the $100 million mark, which the original movie did manage to make in that period despite bad reviews.

The Warner Bros. ensemble crime-comedy Ocean's Thirteen dropped two places to #4 with $11.3 million, bringing its total to $91 million, which should allow it to join the $100 million club by this time next week.

Already joining that exclusive club on Friday, Judd Apatow's R-rated comedy Knocked Up continued its astounding run, dropping just 25% (the smallest drop in the Top 10), to add another $10.6 million to its cumulative gross of $108.9 million. After four weekend, it's just one day's gross away from surpassing the total gross of Apatow's The 40-Year-Old Virgin, which ironically enough, starred Evan Almighty's Steve Carell.

Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End hasn't quite hit the $300 million mark domestically just yet, having currently grossed $287 million with the addition of $7.1 million this past weekend in sixth place.

In seventh place, Sony's animated comedy Surf's Up took advantage of schools being out of session nationwide to pull in $6.7 million, a miniscule 28% drop, to bring its total box office to $47.3 million.

DreamWorks Animation's Shrek the Third crossed the $300 million mark this past week and it added $5.7 million to that amount this weekend as it wound up in eighth place.

After a less than spectacular opening, Warner Bros.' Nancy Drew picked up a bit of slack with the closing of schools for summer, bringing in $4.5 million in its second weekend for a ten-day total of $16.1 million.

Earlier in the week, The Weinstein Company and Lionsgate decided to open Michael Moore's new doc SiCKO in a single theatre in New York City on Friday, where it grossed an impressive $70,000 over the weekend, selling out most of its shows. The co-distributors are still trying to determine how wide they'll expand Moore's health care doc of Friday, which will be determined by how the movie fared with last minute sneak previews over the weekend.

IFC Films' crime-comedy You Kill Me didn't fare particularly well in its limited release of 35 theatres where it grossed $247 thousand, an average of $7k per theatre, so the distributor might reconsider expanding it nationwide as originally planned.

Last year, the Top 10 movies headlined by Adam Sandler's Click grossed $124.7 million, an amount slightly above what this week's Top 10 pulled in based on estimates.