Oct 12, 2008
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Joal Ryan Sun Oct 12, 2:03 PM ET Los Angeles (E! Online) - Leonardo DiCaprio? Russell Crowe? Nope. If you wanted a movie star that turned on—and turned out—the young audience this weekend, then your best option wasn't DiCaprio or Crowe, or their A-list-credentialed Body of Lies. "I think they went for Quarantine, obviously," Exhibitor Relations box office analyst Jeff Bock said today. The $12 million horror movie "starring" a team of TV actors, led by Dexter's Jennifer Carpenter, trumped the $100 million, Ridley Scott-directed political thriller, $14.2 million to $13.1 million, per studio estimates compiled by Exhibitor Relations. And that wasn't the worst of it for Body of Lies. The DiCaprio-Crowe movie didn't finish second at the box office. It finished third, lorded over by both Quarantine and, um, Beverly Hills Chihuahua...
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