All this talk about box office slumps has got Hollywood in a great big flap.

Most of this year’s multi-million dollar explodoflicks have underperformed at the cinema, but there have been a few rays of light.

Wedding Crashers is undoubtedly the sleeper hit of 2005. Two charismatic stars banter their way through – basically – a girly romantic comedy that’s vaguely raunchy and boisterous, and people can’t stop watching it.

That trick seems likely to be repeated by another comedy that walks the line between warmhearted and outrageous. Steve Carell – previously most famous for being the newsreader that went "Mer mer bubububu woo woo" in Bruce Almighty and the man who ate a big red candle in Anchorman – now stars in The 40 Year-Old Virgin. And it’s number one in this week’s US weekend box office charts.

Before we show you the chart, let’s spare a thought for Supercross:
The Movie. It’s a story about two brothers avenging their father’s
death by the power of motorbike riding, and apparently so bad that the studio tried to sneak it out without anyone noticing. Needless to say, it didn’t make
the top ten this week. Here’s the chart.

1 – The 40 Year-Old Virgin (A man pisses in his own face at one point) $20,555,000.

2 – Red Eye (The most terrifying film about conjunctivitis ever) $16,500,000.

3 – Four Brothers (Like Get Carter, but starring Outkast and Marky Mark) $13,000,000

4 – Wedding Crashers (The second Rachel McAdams film in the top four.
But the only one where Christopher Walken plays her Dad) $8,275,000.

5 – The Skeleton Key (Keys are the new zombies, we’re told) $7,420,000

6 - March Of The Penguins (Coming soon: March of the Wagon Wheels) $6,680,000

7 - Valiant (Ricky Gervais stops ripping off Curb Your Enthusiasm long enough to do the voice of a cartoon penguin) $6,090,000

8 - The Dukes Of Hazzard (The eight billionth movie remake of an old TV show this year) $5,745,000

9 - Charlie And The Chocolate Factory ("Sorry, I was having a flashback") $4,540,000

10 - Sky High (A film about the most over-used rhyme in badly-written pop songs) $4,008,000

Read more:
‘40 Year-Old Virgin’ Scores At Box Office – MSNBC

[story by Stuart Heritage]