Openers search for youth this weekend

September 18, 2008 Last weekend's top grosser was Focus Features' "Burn After Reading" with $19.1 million, and an unusually strong second-week "hold" for the Coen brothers comedy could see the George Clooney-Brad Pitt starrer again vie for the boxoffice laurels. "Igor" will hit $10 million only if the recent absence of family-friendly titles causes a last-minute surge of interest in the 2-D animated feature. With the prospect of a couple misfires in the batch of market entrants, the weekend will struggle to outperform the comparable frame of a year earlier unless "Lakeview" or "Girl" pops well beyond projections.

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