Comedy “Night at the Museum” held its place at the top of the North American box office for the second weekend successively.

Ben Stiller's comedy took $36.7m (£18.7m) between Friday and Monday, up from $30.8m the earlier weekend, according to BBC News.

Will Smith's drama “The Pursuit of Happyness” kept on in second place with an estimated $19.3m.

“Dreamgirls”, starring Beyonce Knowles, jumped to third place from seventh despite a limited release. The musical, which portrays a 1960s soul group loosely based on the "Supremes", took $15.5m despite playing in only 852 cinemas, compared to 3,768 screens for “Night at the Museum”.

Charlotte's Web, a film based on EB White's children's novel about a talking spider and a pig named Wilbur, made $12m. So, it is in the fourth place.

“The Good Shepherd”, about the origins of the Central Intelligence Agency, was fifth with $10.98m.

Stallone's “Rocky Balboa”, was knocked out from third place, taking the sixth spot with $10.79m.

The dragon fantasy “Eragon” was seventh while previous number one, the animated penguin flick “Happy Feet”, was still in the top ten with $7.7m with total US takings at $178m.

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