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Just as the makers of Wallace & Gromit were celebrating their number one success at the US box office, a storage warehouse containing characters and sets from their previous hits was burning down. "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit." The clay-animated family film debuted as the top weekend movie with $16.1 million.
The three-storey Victorian building in Bristol contained the "entire history" of Aardman Animations. Sets from films such as Chicken Run and the Wallace & Gromit series were destroyed in the fire reports Times UK
The airplane thriller "Flightplan," which had held the top box-office slot for two weekends, slipped to second place with $10.8 million.
"In Her Shoes," opened at No. 3 with $10 million.
Al Pacino and Matthew McConaughey's sports-gambling flick "Two for the Money" debuted in fourth place with $8.4 million.
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