Even though Chicken Little is a geeky cartoon bird with the voice of that bloke out of Scrubs, he’s turning out to be tougher than we thought.

In the US weekend box office chart, Chicken Little has seen off such hardy competitors as Jennifer Aniston having sex with men on trains and 50 Cent being all hard and that.

The continued success of Chicken Little can be seen as a form of
vindication for Disney, which has recently only had successes with
Pixar films, while it’s traditionally-animated cartoons like Treasure
Planet and Lilo And Stitch stank-up cinemas like a shitty nappy trapped
behind a radiator.

So now that Chicken Little has triumphed in the annual ’sneak in
quick before that Harry Potter film comes out’ weekend, how have all
the other movies done? Here’s the full US weekend box office chart.

1 - Chicken Little (Now that every single good children’s book has
been turned into a feature-length  cartoon, Disney is getting ready to
greenlight an adaptation of I Wish Daddy Didn’t Drink So Much)
$32,026,000

2 - Zathura (This film was named after the way that Chenai from X Factor pronounces the word "satsuma") $14,000,000

3 - Derailed (Jennifer Aniston suppresses all her natural instincts
to be kooky and charming to be depressing and shit in this
rubbish-looking movie) $12,800,000

4 - Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ (Authorities are said to be worried that
youths will embrace gun-crime in an attempt to copy scenes from this
film. And they have a point: hecklerspray has fond memories of the time
we constructed a giant space laser after watching Die Another Day)
$12,500,000

5 - Jarhead (AKA The Last Movie Before Everyone Starts Calling Jake Gyllenhaal That Gay Cowboy) $12,264,000

6 - Saw II (Well well well. Turns out that there are enough creepy
blood-hungry Americans to keep this grisly horror film in the top ten
for three weeks. Who’d have thought?) $9,400,000

7 - The Legend Of Zorro (Antonio Banderas is now so old that for this movie he needed an easy-grip sword) $6,600,000

8 - Prime (A film for those of you that found Warren Beatty’s Town And County not really quite smug enough) $3,954,000

9 - Dreamer: Inspired By A True Story (We love the ‘Inspired By A
True Story’ part of this film’s title. We’re also looking forward to
the first ‘Inspired By, Like, This Crazy-Ass Dream I Had After I Drank
Some Lumpy Milk’ film) $3,800,000

10 - Pride And Prejudice (Keira Knightley’s nipple fell off this
weekend or something. We were told, but we weren’t really listening)
$2,804,000

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Box Office Mojo Weekend Box Office November 11-13 2005

[story by Stuart Heritage]