The comðuter animated Kung Fu Panda (UPI) continues to conquer CIS cinemas. It grossed $4,718,867 from 821 screens (43% less than its first weekend), and its total box office in 11 days reached $16,144,661 – a very respectable sum for an animated film.

Kung Fu Panda stayed in top spot in the CIS box office chart, and new American films took up the next three spots. Louis Leterrier’s The Incredible Hulk (UPI), starring Edward Norton and Liv Tyler, muscled in on the action, grossing $3,241,476 from 500 screens in its first four days. The film earned an average of $6483 per screen. By comparison, Ang Lee’s 2003 Hulk film, distributed by the company East-West, grossed a total of $1.53 million.

In third place was M. Night Shyamalan’s thriller The Happening (20th Century Fox CIS), starring Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel. The film thrilled $2,004,371 out of the pockets of moviegoers at 481 screens. In the next line down, prison comedy Big Stan (Central Partnership), directed by and starring Rob Schneider, locked up $935,946 from 245 screens.

There was another new film in the top ten. The comedy If I Had Known I was a Genius, starring Markus Redmond, Whoopie Goldberg and Sharon Stone, debuted in seventh place with $111 022 from 65 screens.

Abel Ferrara’s crime comedy Go-Go Tales (Cinema Without Frontiers), with Willem Dafoe and Bob Hoskins, debuted in 16th place, earning $8377 from four screens. In 39th and 40th place were respectively Chinese director Xiaogang Feng’s war drama The Assembly ($434, one screen) and Valery Pendrakovsky’s musical fantasy Running on Waves (Moskovskoye Kino), which is based on the works of Alexander Grin and stars Diana Morozova, Andrei Birin and Alexei Petrenko. The latter film’s budget is $3 million and it earned $412 from two screens.

Besides The Incredible Hulk and The Happening, the action comedy My Mom's New Boyfriend (Paradise) passed the $1 million mark this week, but fell to fifth place from third. In its second weekend, its 236 screens yielded $508,328 (a 40% drop), for an 11-day total of $1,772,336. Accordingly, the “millionaire’s club” for this box office year now numbers 82 titles.

The romantic comedy What Happens in Vegas… (20th Century Fox CIS), starring Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher has earned $9 million – a phenomenal result for a film of this genre!

Total CIS box office from June 12–15 was $12,306,182, or 7.9% higher than the previous weekend.