Monday Morning Box Office: Moviegoers Find Rats In A Restaurant Surprisingly Delicious

1. Ratatouille--$47.227 million
Another summer, another critically beloved animated feature that tops the box office on its opening weekend, extending Pixar's years-long consecutive hits streak. But now that the studio has proven it can push to number one a movie with a premise as theoretically unsavory as filthy, health-code flouting rodents running amok in the kitchen of a French restaurant, they'll seek a challenge that will properly tax their unparalleled hitmaking talents: development has begun on Crabs, the story of some misunderstood, but ultimately lovable, genital lice making their home in the overgrown pubic hair of a Hungarian prostitute. Summer 2009 opening weekend gross: $53 million.

2. Live Free or Die Hard--$33.150 million
As we predicted on Friday, the lure of John McClane blowing up on a midsummer Friday night was too strong to resist, and we cast this weekend's $14 box office vote for Die Hard, even though we found Fox's promotional efforts a little lacking. Well, except for the one where a faced Bruce Willis promised us we'd have a good time at his movie:

3. Evan Amighty--$15.089 million
It seems that God has sent a clear message to Hollywood: Stop ing up My perfectly good stories with your CGI nonsense. (A disappointing box office run hurts Hollywood much worse than a flood ever could.)

4. 1408--$10.610 million
1408 IMDb Fun Fact: the film's Young Woman at Book Signing has no other credits, but we think this is the beginning of an impressive career.

9. Sicko--$4.5 million
Illegally downloading copies of Sicko is so easy that even political candidates in Ohio can show you how to do it!

• WEEKEND BOX OFFICE June 29-July 1, 2007 [Box Office Mojo]