50 FIRST DATES HAS $41 MILLION FOR FIRST PLACE

You’d have to have been in some sort of accident that caused you to forget things to not know that a romantic comedy starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, opening on Valentine’s Day weekend would open huge and take the box office crown. So, 50 First Dates, starring a brain-damaged Barrymore, who has an accident that causes her to forget the previous day and the ever-wacky Sandler, took in $41 million over the weekend. That makes it the second-highest February opening ever, behind Hannibal’s $58 million.

Sandler and Barrymore also fell in love in The Wedding Singer, which opened Valentine’s weekend 1998.

Here’s the rest of the Top 10: #2 Barbershop 2: Back in Business ($15.6); #3 Miracle ($14m); #4 The Butterfly Effect ($5.7m); #5 You Got Served ($5.1m); #6 Along Came Polly ($5.08m); #7 Catch That Kid ($4.35m); #8 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ($4.15m); #9 Cold Mountain ($3.7m) #10 Mystic River ($3.55m).