Just one week after the end of Invincible's two-week reign, another football-inspired film, The Gridiron Gang, topped the box office during the fourth consecutive lackluster weekend at the movies.  The Covenant, which is based on an Image graphic novel and which briefly interrupted the touchdown trend last weekend, dropped 46.9% in its second frame -- a drop that can only be considered modest for a horror or action film in today's market.  Last weekend, which registered the lowest box office total in five years, was bad, but this weekend wasn't much better -- it registered a 12% drop from the corresponding frame in 2005.

The period murder drama The Black Dahlia came in second, but registered the highest per theater average of the weekend ($4654) among widely released films.  The Black Dahlia undoubtedly hurt the performance of another adult-skewing period film, Hollywoodland, which chronicles the mysterious death of George Reeves, the actor who played Superman in the 1950s.  Hollywoodland slipped from #2 to #9 as its box office total fell 53.8%.