Critic haters who point out that this weekend’s #1 movie, Resident Evil: Extinction , did not screen for critics in advance of its Friday opening and still managed a decent $24 million at the box office don’t often consider that studio Sony spent so much to promote it that a #1 spot would be as likely as gravity reversing itself. A distant #2 (insert poop joke here) is the Dane Cook-Jessica Alba comedy, Good Luck Chuck, with the only other brand-brand new release in the Top 10 being the #6 scoring Snow White spoof, Sydney White, starring the super-cute Amanda Bynes. Two remnants of summer – the #8 Superbad and the #9 The Bourne Ultimatum – continue chugging, up over the $100 million and $200 million marks, respectively (and respectably).

•••TOP 10 MOVIES - SEPT. 21-23, 2007•••

1. RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION - $23.7M ($23.7M total)
2. GOOD LUCK CHUCK - $13.7M ($13.7M total)
3. THE BRAVE ONE - $7.31M ($25M total)
4. 3:10 TO YUMA - $6.16M ($37.7M total)
5. EASTERN PROMISES - $5.6M ($6.4M total)
6. SYDNEY WHITE - $5.2M ($5.2M)
7. MR. WOODCOCK - $4.9M ($15.6M total)
8. SUPERBAD - $3.1M ($116.2M total)
9. THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM - $2.9M ($220.2M total)
10. DRAGON WARS - $2.6M ($8.7M total)