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Sony Pictures grabbed bragging rights for this weekend when Friday's North American grosses made its derivative sci-fi Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans and moronic comedy Paul Blart: Mall Cop Nos. 1 and 2 respectively at the box office.

'Paul Blart' Does Part in Record MLK WeekendLed by an exceptional start for Paul Blart: Mall Cop and solid ones for My Bloody Valentine 3-D, Notorious and Hotel for Dogs, the weekend as a whole was not only a new Martin Luther King, Jr. high but the highest-grossing on record for the month of January.

'Notorious,' 'Bloody Valentine' finish 2nd, 3rd -- Sony’s Kevin James comedy “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” opened to No. 1 at the Friday box office, grossing an estimated $9.9 million from 3,144 runs as the long Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend got underway.

This week at the movies, we've got a guard with insecurity (Paul Blart: Mall Cop, starring Kevin James); pampered pooches (Hotel for Dogs, starring Emma Roberts and Jake T. Austin); a crazed killer (My Bloody Valentine 3D, starring Jensen Ackles and Jamie King); Brooklyn's finest (Notorious, starring Jamal Woolard and...