As expected, Warner's dream-filled sci-fi thriller "Inception" won the domestic box office for a third consecutive week, grossing $27.5 million, according to estimates.
For the second straight weekend, the Christopher Nolan-directed film dropped less than 40 percent from the week prior (the decline was only 36 percent this time around). It has grossed $193.3 million in the U.S. and Canada to date.
Paramount/DreamWorks comedy "Dinner with Schmucks," opening at 2,911 theaters, was a solid No. 2, meeting its pre-release estimates with a first-weekend haul of $23.3 million.
The weekend's other new wide releases, Universal's tween-targeted Zac Efron movie "Charlie St.