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Monday, 6 August, 2001, 09:54 GMT 10:54 UK
Rush Hour 2 rumbles to top
![]() Chan and Tucker's chemistry ensured big box office
Rush Hour 2 has battled its way to the top of the US box office with an impressive $66.8m (£46.9m) weekend gross despite mixed reviews.
The comedy martial arts movie starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker cost a reported $90m (£63m) to make.
Rush Hour 2 has entered the record books as the fourth best opener of all time. The second best opener of all time is the $68.5m (£48m) set the previous weekend by Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes. "Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan have an incredible magic together that you can't duplicate," said producer Arthur Sarkissian. "People cheer, they laugh, they're having an incredibly good time." Planet of the Apes is now in second place with $28.5m (£20m), followed by The Princess Diaries, starring newcomer Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews, which took an unexpected $23.2m (£16.3m) opening weekend gross.
The disappointment of the weekend was the debut of Original Sin, a Cuban-set romance starring Angelina Jolie and Antonio Banderas which took only $6.4m (£4.5m) over the weekend, putting it in sixth place.
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