Hero: According to The Hollywood Reporter, while Hero, director Zhang Yimou's sumptuously color-coded martial arts epic from Miramax Films held on to the top spot at the boxoffice for the second week in a row with an $11.5 million four-day haul, 20th Century Fox's torn-from-the-tabloids thriller Paparazzi made the best impression of the new arrivals, checking in in fourth place with a $7.9 million four-day bow.

All in all, though, it was a relatively listless weekend.

Traditionally, the last weekend of summer sees a falling off at the boxoffice as potential moviegoers turn their attention to outdoor activities. That situation was compounded this year as Hurricane Frances forced Florida theaters -- along with virtually everything else in the state -- to shut down, denying Hollywood a market that normally accounts for 5.5% of the national gross. The other new arrivals jostled to carve out their own corners of the market. MGM's Wicker Park, a suspenser about romantic obsession starring Josh Hartnett, logged in sixth place with a $6.75 million four-day bow. Focus Features' Vanity Fair, Mira Nair's adaptation of the William Thackeray novel starring Reese Witherspoon, took eighth place with $6.12 million. And Lions Gate's urban comedy The Cookout debuted in ninth place with $6.1 million.

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Hero was released August 27th, 2004 and stars Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung, Ziyi Zhang, Daoming Chen, Donnie Yen, Liu Zhong Yuan, Zheng Tia Yong. The film is directed by Yimou Zhang.