On the weekend of Aðril 10–13, for the first time, a film released by Luxor shot to the top of the CIS box office chart. This was Scar 3D, which started a week ago in 18^th place on six screens and grossed $35,658. Now the film’s release has been widened significantly – to 295 screens – and it has grossed $1,308,216 in its second weekend, which is 3569% more than in its first. Scar’s total gross for 11 days was $1,378,840. The success of this thriller is due to the popularity in Russia of screenings with special glasses creating a 3D effect.

Last week’s leader, Fool’s Gold, the adventure comedy starring Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson, distributed by Caro Premier, fell to second place, grossing $1,015,502 in its second weekend (a 43% drop) for a total of  $3,378,325 in 11 days. In the next place down was the debut of Alexei Gordeyev’s comedy Nobody Knows About Sex 2 (Nikto ne znayet pro seks-2), distributed by Central Partnership. The film stars Ksenia Sobchak, Kirill Kanakhin and Maxim Konovalov and is a sequel to Gordeyev’s Nobody Knows About Sex (2006), which given a budget of $1.1 million, brought Central Partnership $1.6 million. The new film’s budget is $2 million. Released on 400 screens, it put $759,209 into its piggy bank in its first four days of release.

The horror film Shutter (20^th Century Fox CIS), starring Joshua Jackson and Rachel Taylor stayed in fourth place. Its 237 screens brought $457,992 (a 39% drop) in its second weekend, for a total of $1,518,308 in 11 days. Besides Scar 3D and Shutter, another film broke the $1 million barrier – Untraceable, starring Diane Lane and distributed by Top Film. It fell from fifth place to ninth. In its second weekend, it grossed $340,159 (a 42% drop) from 172 screens, for an 11-day total of $1,111,803. Consequently, membership in the “millionaire’s club” this year now numbers 59 films.

The fifth through eighth places were occupied by new films. A couple of American comedies took fifth and sixth – respectively, these were Over Her Dead Body (Pyramida), starring Eva Longoria Parker and Paul Rudd (175 screens, $454 298) and Drillbit Taylor (UPI) with Owen Wilson (137 screens, $444,151). In seventh place was Tim Burton’s macabre musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Caro Premier), which is the film version of the popular Stephen Sondheim Broadway show about a vengeful barber (Johnny Depp) and his faithful helper (Helena Bonham Carter). The film, which was nominated for three Oscars including Best Actor (Depp) and best costumes (Colleen Atwood), was awarded one golden statuette for Best Achievement in Art Direction (Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo). The film grossed $377,702 off 74 screens. Sweeney Todd’s earnings per screen was $18,618 – making it the film with the best take per screen that week. Comparatively, the take per screen for Scar 3D was $4,435, while Nobody Knows About Sex 2 had $1,898 per screen.

The eighth line in the chart went to Never Back Down the American martial arts actioner starring Sean Faris and Djimon Hounsou (distributed by West, 213 screens, $345,262). The comedy Blonde and Blonder (Top Film), starring Pamela Anderson and Denise Richards did not make it into the top ten and had to make do with 11^th place. Its CIS release was day and date with its European release. It grossed $228,778 from 103 screens.

Three more new films fared much more poorly. The Spanish-British melodrama Summer Rain (Plan2Real), the sophomore directorial effort from Antonio Banderas based on a novel by Antonio Solera debuted in 25^th place with $15,824 from five screens. Love Songs, the French melodramatic musical from Christophe Honore starring Louis Garrel, Ludivigne Sagnier and Chiara Mastroianni took 28^th place (three screens, $13 161). And finally cult Japanese director Shinya Tsukamoto’s Nightmare Detective (Cinema Without Frontiers) starring Ryuhei Mastuda was in 53^rd place (one screen, $1,286).

Total CIS box office from April 10–13 was $7,190,931, which was 9.2% less than the total box office figure for the previous week.