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A relatively uneventful weekend at the box-office saw Tina Fey and Steve Carell’s mistaken-identity comedy Date Night](http://www.cinematical.com/2010/04/09/date-night-review/) in a too-close-to-call battle for first place with Clash of the Titans](http://www.cinematical.com/2010/04/01/clash-of-the-titans-review/), which had the expected big drop its second week out. Date Night is Fey’s second attempt to open a film (or at least to contribute), and her pairing with Carell turned out to be stronger than her pairing with Amy Poehler for Baby Mama](Baby Mama (2008) - Movie | Moviefone) two years ago. The movie was never going to be an “event,” and $27 million is perfectly respectable; along with Cheaper by the Dozen](Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) - Movie | Moviefone), it is director Shawn Levy’s best outing outside the Night at the Museum franchise.
The weekend was the beginning of a relative lull that will last until May 7th, when Iron Man 2 kicks off the summer season. The only other movies to roll out were the Christian family film Letters to God](Letters to God (2010) - Movie | Moviefone), which ended up with a not-too-inspiring $1.3 million on 900 screens, and the C-grade horror flick The Black Waters of Echo’s Pond](The Black Waters of Echo's Pond (2010) - Movie | Moviefone), which flopped with $250,000 on 400 screens. Despite not getting much traction in its initial 80-screen release, The Runaways expanded to 200, which seems like a waste of money (the local multiplex showing The Runaways](http://www.cinematical.com/2010/03/18/the-runaways-review/) here in San Fran ramped it down to two show-times a day this weekend, which shows how much demand there was for an expansion).
Meanwhile, the good word-of-mouth appears to have caught up with How to Train Your Dragon](http://www.cinematical.com/2010/03/26/review-how-to-train-your-dragon/), which dropped merely 12%, and for which $200 million is looking pretty certain.
The top 10 after the jump.
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