'Burn After Reading' tops boxoffice

September 14, 2008 The Coen brothers' dark comedy "Burn After Reading" from Focus Features and Working Title lit up the domestic boxoffice during the weekend, as its estimated $19.4 million debut showed pre-release expectations to be seriously undercooked. Even Picturehouse's "The Women" -- a critically dismissed remake of the 1939 ensemble comedy and the specialty distributor's final film before shutting down -- bowed with a better-than-expected $10.1 million in fourth place. Less positively, a second weekend for last weekend's No. 1 film, "Bangkok Dangerous" from Lionsgate, saw the Nicolas Cage starrer drop a big 69% to $2.4 million in eighth place and a 10-day cume of $12.5 million.

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