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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [Richard Corliss](https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/) Aug 2, 2010 4:00 AM UTC  Leonardo DiCaprio in Inception Leonardo DiCaprio in InceptionMelissa Moseley / Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. by [Richard Corliss](https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/) Aug 2, 2010 4:00 AM UTC The dream goes on. _Inception_ won the weekend box office at North American theaters, according to early studio estimates. Christopher Nolan’s labyrinthine thriller, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the leader of a team that invades a man’s sleep patterns, earned $27.5 million in its third weekend. The film thus joins _Avatar_, _Alice in Wonderland_ and _Shrek Forever After_ — all movies whose protagonists fall or leap into alternative-reality dream worlds — in 2010’s three-time-winners’ club. _Inception_ should cross the $200 domestic mark by Tuesday, and has already taken in $170 million abroad. The second-place finisher, _Dinner for Schmucks_, had been the top-grossing movie on Friday night, before tepid word-of-tweet (and a so-so B rating from CinemaScore’s exiting moviegoers) alerted frequent filmgoers that the Steve Carell–Paul Rudd comedy was not an essential see. _Schmucks_ should finish the weekend with $23.3 million, or almost as much as the combined take of the other two entries in wide release. The sequel _Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore_ pulled in a kitten- or puppy-size $12.5 million, landing in fifth place. Maybe the hit cartoon _Despicable Me_, which earned $15.5 million in its fourth weekend, sucked too much helium out of the kids’-party balloon. Or maybe the fanciers of CGI-aided talking-canine comedies are saving their money for _Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2_, due out later this year. [(See TIME’s review of _Dinner for Schmucks_.)](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2007390,00.html) _Charlie St. Cloud_, the teen weepie starring _High School Musical_‘s Zac Efron, is expected to have tallied a dry-eyed $12.1 million in its first three days. It should replicate the modest earnings of this past March’s _Remember Me_, another love story with a certified-dreamboat headliner (_Twilight_‘s Robert Pattinson), a dead brother and a four-hankie rating. Viewers showed less interest in getting moist-eyed with Zac than in revisiting burlier movies with older stars: the Angelina Jolie spy caper _Salt_, which finished third over the weekend, and Adam Sandler’s _Grown Ups_, which in its sixth week has passed $150 million and is Sandler’s most solid film since his remake of _The Longest Yard_ in 2005. The hot news on the indie-film circuit was the stellar opening for _Get Low_, starring Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek and Bill Murray: it picked up $90,900, for the weekend’s highest per-screen average. Meanwhile, _The Kids Are All Right_ — the gay-moms-meet-their kids’-sperm-donor comedy that was anointed by critics as this summer’s sleeper hit on a magnitude of _Little Miss Sunshine_ — expanded from 201 to 847 screens but saw only a 33.5% jump in sales, to $3.4 million. The movie, which has earned $9.6 million after 24 days in release, actually dropped a notch in its weekend ranking, from 11th place last week to 12th. _Kids_ hit the same multiplex wall that _Cyrus_, the dark comedy favored by mumblecore fans, smashed into when the wider audience realized that, hey, it wasn’t about the star of _Hannah Montana_. [(See TIME’s review of _Get Low_.)](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2007471,00.html) In other indie action — make that indie _in_action, considering the paltry grosses — _The Concert_, a feel-sad/feel-good drama about a Russian conductor’s life-changing visit to Paris, earned $20,121 in two theaters; _The Extra Man_, a quirky relationship comedy with Kevin Kline and Paul Dano, cadged $18,500, also on two screens; and the documentary _Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel_ took in $10,000 in its solo engagement. That means each of these films attracted fewer than 1,000 ticket buyers in the cities they opened in, despite heavy promotion (Kline snagged a guest spot on _The Colbert Report_), some glowing reviews and seemingly built-in niche audiences. Todd Solondz’s _Life During Wartime_, with some of the year’s most glowing reviews — [including this one](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2006407,00.html) — somehow managed to make less money in six theaters this weekend ($30,420) than it did in one theater last weekend ($30,507). We’re not saying that mass appeal equals quality, but there’s a point on the box office radar where indie becomes insignificant. Here are the Sunday estimates of this weekend’s top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo: 1\. _Inception_, $27.5 million; $193.3 million, third week 2\. _Dinner for Schmucks_, $23.3 million, first weekend 3\. _Salt_, $19.25 million; $70.8 million, second week 4\. _Despicable Me_, $15.5 million; $190.3 million, fourth week 5\. _Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore_, $12.5 million, first weekend 6\. _Charlie St. Cloud_, $12.1 million, first weekend 7\. _Toy Story 3_, $5 million; $389.7 million, seventh week 8\. _Grown Ups_, $4.5 million; $150.7 million, sixth week 9\. _The Sorcerer’s Apprentice_, $4.3 million; $51.9 million, third week 10\. _The Twilight Saga: Eclipse_, $4 million; $288.2 million, fifth week [See the top 10 movie bromances.](https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1886693%5F1886714,00.html) [Buy reprints of TIME’s movie covers.](https://www.timecoverstore.com/search/movies/?utm%5Fsource=covers&iid=covers) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6911004/box-office-inception-schmacks-the-schmucks/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6911004/box-office-inception-schmacks-the-schmucks/"},"headline":"Box Office: Inception Schmacks the Schmucks","datePublished":"2010-08-02T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-22T16:18:06.176Z","description":"The dream goes on. 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