New Russian films took uð the two toð slots in the CIS box office chart. Vartan Akopyan’s melodrama Ðlaton (Ðaradise), starring Ðavel “Snezhhok” Volya, led the chart. Made with a budget of $3.2 million, the film grossed $2,559,504 from 464 screens $2 559 504 in four days. In the next line down was A Very Russian Detective Story [Ochen’ russky detektiv] (Caroprokat), the parody from secretive director Karll Panaka starring Yuri Stoyanov, Maxim Konovalov and Vadim Galygin. Made for $3.5 million, the film grossed $1,751,383 from 527 screens in the same four days. Both films joined the “millionaire’s club” of films in CIS distribution this year, bringing the total number of film that made more than $1 million up to 132.

The leader of the last two weeks, the James Bond film Quantum of Solace (BVSPR), starring Daniel Craig as Agent 007, grossed $943,159 from 750 screens in its third weekend (75% less than in its second), for a total of $17,591,173 in 18 days. The teen vampire thriller Twilight (West), starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson debuted in fourth place. Directed by Catherine Hardwicke, the film is an adaptation of a best-selling novel by Stephenie Meyer that made a lot of noise overseas. It was released in the CIS one day before its release in the U.S.  and grossed $928 180 from 246 screens. Another new film made it into the top ten – Ridley Scott’s spy thriller Body of Lies (Caro Premier), adapted from a novel by David Ignatius and starring Leonard DiCaprio and Russell Crowe. Its 142 screens brought it $491,176.

Three new films were outside of the top 10. Steven Schachter’s Canadian-American comedy The Deal (Luxor), starring William H. Macy and Meg Ryan (the CIS premiere of which was the world premier) took up 12^th place (73 screens, $115 098). Mikhail Tumanishvili’s $5 million actioner Second Wind [Vtoroye dykhaniye] (Panorama), starring Pyotr Krasilov and Denis Nikiforov, debuted in the next line down, taking $98,315 from 70 screens. Finally, vetern British social realist Ken Loach’s It’s a Free World (Cinema Without Frontiers) starring Kierston Wareing had to make do with 31^st place (three screens, $3,284).

The computer-animated hit Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (UPI) cleared the $40 million hurdle. After 25 days in realease, it grossed $40,423,957. This is the second film in all of CIS box office history to break $40 million. The first film to do so was Timur Bekmambetov’s Irony of Fate: The Sequel (20^th Century Fox CIS), which grossed a total $49.91 million.

Total CIS box office for the next the last weekend in autumn (November 20-23) was $9,554,226, which is 6.1% less than the figure for the previous weekend.