Coming in at No. 1 this week is BORAT (20th) with a healthy $26,375,000 it’s first week out. People LOVE this movie…I’m not quite sure why, but perhaps I’ll take a look.

No. 2 is THE SANTA CLAUSE 3: (Buena Vista) with an opening debut of $20,000,000; a film I definitely won’t be seeing.

No. 3 is the animated adventure FLUSHED AWAY (Dreamworks SKG), with an opening number of $19,100,000.

No. 4 is SAW III (Lionsgate WB Pictures) with $15,500,000 bringing it’s 2 week total to $60,077,000. Another flick I won’t be seeing…I don’t do horror.

No. 5 is THE DEPARTED (WB Int’l) bringing in another $8,100,000 for a 5 week total of $102,282,000.