According to The Hollywood Reporter, Inspector Clouseau bumbled his way to the top of the boxoffice as Steve Martin's The Pink Panther debuted with an estimated $21.7 million to lead a rush of new releases.

New Line's horror sequel Final Destination 3 ran a close second with about $20.1 million, followed by Universal's animated Curious George at No. 3 with approximately $15.3 million and the Warner Bros. thriller Firewall starring Harrison Ford in fourth with roughly $13.8 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

The overall boxoffice rose slightly despite the Winter Olympics and a Northeast snowstorm, both of which kept many moviegoers at home. The top 12 movies took in $106.8 million, up 3% over the same weekend last year, when Hitch opened as the No. 1 movie with $43.2 million.

Overseas, Steven Spielberg's Munich, playing in 49 markets, found itself displaced from its No. 1 boxoffice spot by Les bronzes 3: Amis pour la vie, a French-produced comedy that Warner Bros. is distributing in France. Les bronzes 3 grossed an estimated $14.3 million at 950 screens in its second weekend, with an astonishingly strong 1.9 million admissions. The Les Films Christian Fechner, TF1 Films Prods. and TPS Cinema co-production set an all-time opening-weekend admission record last weekend in France with 3 million customers. (The title also is being handled via local distributors in Switzerland and Belgium, for which weekend grosses were not available at press time.)

The Pink Panther was released February 10th, 2006 and stars Steve Martin, Kevin Kline, Jean Reno, Emily Mortimer, Henry Czerny, Kristin Chenoweth, Roger Rees, Beyoncé Knowles. The film is directed by Shawn Levy.