LAURIN SYDNEY, CNN ANCHOR: At the movies this weekend, audiences were seeing blonde. Reese Witherspoon proved that blondes do have more fun, at least at the box office. Michael Okwu has a look at the weekend's top movies.</s>BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "LEGALLY BLONDE") REESE WITHERSPOON, ACTRESS: Girls, I'm going to Harvard.</s>UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: You mean like on "vaca"?</s>UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESS: Let's all go.</s>UNIDENTIFIED ACTRESSES: Road trip.</s>MICHAEL OKWU, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Reese Witherspoon as a toe-headed coed was voted most popular at the box office this weekend. The screwball romantic comedy "Legally Blonde" brought in an estimated $20.4 million in its freshman outing. A $19 million debut for "The Score" added up to second place for the heist flick, featuring some Hollywood heavyweights: Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro and Edward Norton star as thieves after a priceless piece of art. "Cats and Dogs" fetched an estimated 12 million bones this weekend. The picture, full of wisecracking canines and feline one- liners, landed in third place. It was a fourth-place finish for "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within." The adventure film spun from a videogame and starring a computer-generated cast generated an estimated 11.5 million bucks in its debut. And the Wayans brothers horror film spoof, "Scary Movie 2," took the fifth-place spot with $9.5 million. Michael Okwu, CNN, Entertainment News, New York.
'Legally Blonde' Takes Top Spot at Weekend Box Office