By Carl DiOrio

HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - ``Harry'' bruised its box office legs with a big 58% drop in its third weekend to an estimated $24.1 million.

The fall was inevitable in part: a tough comparison with the historically strong Friday-through-Sunday frame following Thanksgiving. Nonetheless, there was some happy news for ``Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'' as Warner Bros.' blockbuster crossed the magical $200 million domestic threshold on its 15th day Friday, en route to an estimated total of $220.1 million through Sunday. That's a quicker spurt to $200 million than any previous release except 1999's ``Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace,'' which got there in 13 days.

20th Century Fox bowed Gene Hackman starrer ``Behind Enemy Lines'' to a solid $19.2 million in estimated box office. Based on a true story from the war in Bosnia, ``Enemy Lines'' was moved up from a 2002 release partly to take advantage of patriotic fervor in the United States.

Fox distribution president Bruce Snyder said the picture's acceleration also was fueled by a desire to get the jump on Sony's military actioner ``Black Hawk Down,'' scheduled to unspool wide in January.

``Nobody releases movies the weekend after Thanksgiving, because it's never been considered to be a good weekend for business,'' Snyder noted. ``But we didn't want to be the second war picture out.''

There were no wide openers over the same frame last year, and the session's previous high-water mark came back in 1991, when ``Star Trek VI'' bowed to $18.1 million.

``Enemy Lines'' played to audiences comprised 54% of males and 54% age 25 and older.

Industrywide, the weekend represented a nearly 5% improvement over a year ago at $93 million, according to data from box office tracker ACNielsen EDI. In a year-to-date comparison, 2001 is 9% ahead of the same period last year at $7.29 billion in industry grosses.

In the latest frame, several other pictures also marked big drops including a 48% sophomore-session slip for Universal's ``The Spy Game'' to an estimated $11.3 million. With ``Game'' costing Universal and foreign-rights partner Beacon more than $90 million to produce, Robert Redford-Brad Pitt starrer may struggle to reach profitability.

Other sophomore-session pictures included Fox's Martin Lawrence laffer ``Black Knight,'' which fell 49% to $5.7 million, and Disney's teen comedy ``Out Cold,'' off 36% at $2.9 million.

The Mouse House's ``Monsters, Inc.'' dropped an ugly 60% to $9.4 million. But the Pixar co-production crossed $200 million in 30 days -- a record for a cartoon -- as its beauteous total reached an estimated $204.3 million.

Warner Bros. had hoped to maintain at least a 50% ``hold'' from week-earlier grosses on ``Harry.'' But Jeff Goldstein, the studio's executive VP of distribution, said the bigger drop still was on par with those of other family pictures in the market this sesh.

Meanwhile, Miramax's ``Amelie'' broke into the top 10 without reaching wide distribution. The French-language laffer, which won't expand further substantially until Christmas week, finished No. 9 in adding a single theater for a total 218 and grossing an estimated $1.4 million.

On the other hand, Miramax/Dimension's ``Texas Rangers'' -- once intended as a wide release but long delayed after lackluster testing -- bowed in 402 engagements and grossed an abysmal $300,000. Representing only $746 per playdate, the performance left the James Van Der Beek-Dylan McDermott starrer far out of the top 10.

Miramax's ``In the Bedroom'' added a single venue for a total five and grossed $95,000, or an impressive $19,000 per location. The Sissy Spacek starrer, which expands into top-20 markets on Christmas, moved its total to $240,000 after two limited frames in L.A. and Gotham.

The Warner Bros.-distributed ``The Affair of the Necklace,'' a period drama from studio-based producer Alcon, grossed $136,000 from 18 playdates in four markets. The Hilary Swank starrer -- which enjoyed a solid $7,555 per-theater average -- expands into top-10 distribution Christmas week.

Paramount Classics' ``Sidewalks of New York'' added 108 theaters for a total 207 and rolled up $630,000, or a middling $3,043 per playdate. The total for Edward Burns' ensemble laffer moved to $1.4 million.

New Line's ``Life as a House'' -- a No. 10 finisher a week earlier -- fell from the top finishers in the latest session with $1.2 million from 958 playdates. The Kevin Kline starrer has constructed a $13.9 million haul through six frames.

It appears Artisan's ``Novocaine'' has lost any strength, as the Steve Martin starrer grossed only $235,000 in expanding 25 theaters to 145. Its weak $1,620 per-venue average moved the cumulative gross to $1.3 million through three frames.

Meanwhile, overall receipts for November reached a record $744 million, powered by ``Harry Potter'' and ``Monsters.'' While ``Potter'' sent Warner Bros. to the No. 1 spot for the Nov. 2-29 period ($246 million), the film couldn't steal all the credit for a boffo month. ``Monsters'' scared up only a million less than the $196 million cooked up by ``Potter.''

Disney's second-place monster grab of $207 million, together with Warner Bros.' receipts, accounted for 60% of the month's box office.

Reuters/Variety REUTERS

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Following are the final data for the top 10 movies at the North American box office during the November 30-December 2 weekend, according to studio figures released Monday by Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc.

Film Three-day Cumulative

Title Gross Gross

1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone .......... $23,642,327

BOX OFFICE SO FAR: $219,670,289

2. Behind Enemy Lines .......... $18,736,133

BOX OFFICE SO FAR: $18,736,133

3. Spy Game .......... $11,013,350

BOX OFFICE SO FAR: $46,692,115

4. Monsters, Inc. .......... $9,105,664

BOX OFFICE SO FAR: $204,025,728

5. Black Knight .......... $5,522,248

BOX OFFICE SO FAR: $22,783,562

6. Shallow Hal .......... $4,525,000

BOX OFFICE SO FAR: $61,101,477

7. Out Cold .......... $2,718,839

BOX OFFICE SO FAR: $10,288,443

8. Domestic Disturbance .......... $1,912,678

BOX OFFICE SO FAR: $42,381,154

9. Amelie .......... $1,358,649

BOX OFFICE SO FAR: $9,754,200

10. Heist .......... $1,182,497

BOX OFFICE SO FAR: $22,005,215

Reuters/Variety REUTERS

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