Paul Blart A Box Office Champ

3 million in its first week in the first place at the box-office weekend, according to figures released by Media by Numbers, a box-office tracking firm. I. The Sony Pictures release stars Kevin James ( The King of Queens ), right, like a doofus turned hero in the story of a security guard in a mall in New Jersey under siege by criminals., The Brooklyn rapper who was killed in 1997 earned $ 21. The critical overview comedy Paul Blart: Mall Cop took in $ 32. 5 million for Fox Searchlight Pictures. G. Notorious, the biopic about Christopher Wallace better known as Biggie small and Notorious B. Clint Eastwood Gran Torino (Warner Brothers), the only film in the Top 5, which was a holdover from previous weeks, dropped to second place with $ 23 million, for a total of $ 74 million.