‘The Help’ about a Southern white woman who writes a book about black women employed as maids and housekeepers in pre-Civil Rights era America, topped the weekend box office, industry estimates showed Sunday. The Disney movie, which has received mixed reviews, moved up from second place, knocking out ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ from the top spot. ‘Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World’, was third. Not far behind in fourth place, ‘Conan the Barbarian’, featuring little known Hawaiian actor Jason Momoa in the old Arnold Schwarzenegger role in this remake of the beefcake classic. ‘Fright Night’ another new release by Disney, was fifth. Dropping to sixth from fourth place was live-action and animation flick ‘Te Smurfs’ starring Neil Patrick Harris. ‘Final Destination 5’, the black comedy in which good-looking people are methodically killed off, fell from third to seventh place. ‘30 Minutes or Less’, starring Jesse Eisenberg of ‘The Social Network’ as a pizza delivery guy forced to rob a bank, sank to eighth place. Making the top-ten list its first week in theaters was ‘One Day’, with Anne Hathaway, that came in ninth. In 10th was the romantic comedy ‘Crazy, Stupid Love’.
