According to The Hollywood Reporter, There might have been something for everyone at the movies this Columbus Day weekend, but not even a G-rated film with beloved clay-animated characters could topple last year's impressive boxoffice grosses for the comparable frame. DreamWorks Animation's release of Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit gave it its best shot, earning an estimated $16.1 million for the three-day frame.

20th Century Fox's In Her Shoes played solidly for a film that primarily drew a female audience with a roughly $10 million opening, and Sony Pictures' The Gospel scored brilliantly within its primarily black-female demographic. But no film had the crossover ability to reach out to a wider audience beyond that for which it was intended.

The overseas boxoffice was somewhat subdued this autumn weekend as the international market noted a smattering of new openings and garnered respectable to moderate performances from holdovers. Leading the boxoffice pack again was Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit which opened in 11 new markets and had a solid gross of an estimated $9.2 million from 1,895 locations and 13 total territories. The comedy had its strongest opening in Mexico, with $1.3 million from 353 engagements, followed by Spain with $900,000 and Brazil with $361,000. But the biggest contribution to the boxoffice of the stop-motion animated Wallace & Gromit came from the U.K. The DreamWorks and Aardman Animations production had paid previews totaling a sterling $5 million from 487 sites. Wallace & Gromit opens Friday in the territory.

Warner Bros. Pictures' Charlie and the Chocolate Factory continued to play strongly on the international stage, collecting an estimated $7.7 million while taking the cume for the Johnny Depp starrer to a stellar $233.3 million.

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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit was released October 5th, 2005 and stars Peter Sallis, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Peter Kay, Nicholas Smith, Liz Smith, John Thomson, Mark Gatiss. The film is directed by Steve Box, Nick Park.