The urine-swilling, posterior pounding antics of Jackass: Number Two managed to lure an overwhelmingly male audience into the theaters and scored a convincing victory at weekend box office with an estimated total of $28.1 million.  The 'boys gone wild' MTV reality show-based film did considerably better than the original Jackass movie, which earned $22 million during its opening weekend.  The gross-out antics of Jackass: Number Two helped to boost the total box office by 34% over the previous week end, but the total still fell short of the same weekend's performance in 2005 by nearly 8 percent.

Another male-oriented film, Jet Li's final martial arts epic, Fearless, also exceeded expectations, earning near 11 million and finishing in second place.  Fearless's relatively strong opening demonstrates that the martial arts genre remains strong and can overcome American audiences' aversion to subtitling.

The World War I aviation movie Flyboys finished a disappointing fourth, earning just $6 million versus its estimated $60 million cost.  Other period films also fared poorly with The Black Dahlia falling to sixth (in its second frame) and Hollywoodland tumbling to thirteenth (in its third weekend).