The Hollywood blockbuster Eagle Eye (UPI), starring Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan, toððed the CIS box office chart. Oðening on 436 screens, this actioner directed by D. J. Caruso grossed $2,060,874 in its first four days and shoved last week’s winner, the musical Mamma Mia!, also distributed by UPI, into second place. The latter film, which is set to the music of ABBA, grossed $1,976,022 from 516 screens (a 52% drop), for a total of $7,213,751 in 11 days.

New films took up the third through fifth slots on the chart. In third place was Joel and Ethan Coen’s new black comedy Burn After Reading (CP Classic), with the all-star cast of George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt and John Malkovich, put $1,696,493 in its piggybank from 252 screens. The per-screen average for this film – $6,732 – was the best of any film of the week. In fourth place was the comedy The House Bunny (BVSPR) with Anna Faris in the role of a Playboy bunny. Its 162 screens brought it $583,583. In the next line down was Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Caro Premier), the first full-length computer animated film in the Star Wars saga, executive produced by none other than George Lucas. The film grossed $527,753 from 291 screens.

In the week in review, there were 10 premieres, but the rest of the films were outside the top ten. Andrei Libenson’s $3.5 million thriller The One Who Turns Off the Lights [Tot, kto gasit svet] (Nashe Kino), starring Alexei Guskov, Yekaterina Rednikova and Artur Smolyaninov grossed $184,665 from 175 screens, for a five-day total (it was released on Wednesday) of $193,457. Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki’s 1989 film Kiki's Delivery Service (RUSCICO) was in 18^th place, with its 14 screens yielding $18,680.

Vadim Perelman’s American drama The Life Before Her Eyes (Paradise) based on a novel by Laura Kasischke and starring Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood, had to make do with 28^th place, grossing $5,616 from two screens, while the Brazilian crime drama City of Men (Premium) was in 31^st place (two screens, $4,350). Thirty-eighth place went to the Austrian-German drama Free Rainer [a.k.a. Reclaim Your Brain] (Cinema Without Frontiers), which has so far only been released in Moscow (four screens, $2,846) and 48^th went to Guka Omarova’s $1.5 million Russian-Kazakhstani-Franco-German drama Baksy (Nashe Kino) starring Nesipkul Omarbekova in the lead role. Its three screens brought it $1,320.

In addition to Eagle Eye and Burn After Reading, which made more than $1 million in their opening weekend, the films Disaster Movie (West) and Skate or Die cleared the coveted hurdle. Consequently, the number of “millionaire” films reached 117.

Total CIS box office from October 2 to October 5 was $9,096,857, which is 16.9% less than the figure for the previous weekend.