'Sex and the City' tops boxoffice

June 01, 2008 The performance sparked immediate talk of a new film franchise's birth after the best-ever bow for a romantic comedy or an R-rated comedy of any sort. "The Strangers," an R-rated horror pic from Universal's Rogue Pictures, also outperformed pre-release expectations this weekend as the Liv Tyler starrer opened with $20.7 million in third place. [...] almost as surprising as the frame's twin overachievers was the underperformance by Paramount's "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" over the otherwise robust boxoffice session.

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