At the box office
The Top 10 films at North American cinemas
1 (*) US$69.6M Planet Of The Apes: Mark Wahlberg stars as the astronaut who crash-lands on a planet run by men in monkey suits.
2 (1) US$22.5M Jurassic Park III: William H Macy and Tea Leoni join the Jurassic franchise as a wealthy couple who hire Sam Neill to find their son, lost on an island filled with leaping lizards.
3 (2) US$15.7M America's Sweethearts: Billy Crystal and Julia Roberts have to deal with the shenanigans of bickering superstar couple Catherine Zeta Jones and John Cusack.
4 (3) US$9.0M Legally Blonde: Reese Witherspoon plays a ditsy blonde who follows her boyfriend to law school and finds out about herself along the way.
5 (4) US$7.1M The Score: Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro and Edward Norton gather for this heist caper.
6 (5) US$4.5M Cats & Dogs: More talking-animal action with Jeff Goldblum discovering a vaccine for allergies to dogs - a move that unites the world's cats in anger.
7 (8) US$4.2M Dr Dolittle 2: Eddie Murphy is back as the man who talks to animals, and this time he's trying to save a forest.
8 (6) US$3.8M The Fast And The Furious: Plenty of pile-ups as Paul Walker plays an undercover FBI agent investigating a spate of car-jackings.
9 (7) US$2.6M Scary Movie 2: The Wayans brothers return with another horror movie spoof, taking aim at every thing from The Exorcist to The Haunting.
10 (11) US$1.7M Shrek: Computer animation brings to life the story of a reclusive green ogre who is forced to make a deal with an evil lord.