STEVE INSKEEP, host: This time every weekday it's time for business news.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, host: Here's a look at the business of keeping you entertained. Snakes on a Plane slithered into the number one spot at the box office over the weekend. The movie still did not meet expectations though, grossing - with the emphasis on gross - just over $15 million.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, host: New Line Cinema was hoping to make $20 million thanks to a lot of visibility on the Internet.</s>Snakes barely beat out Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. The Will Ferrell spoof of NASCAR is billed as the story of a man who could only count to number one. It ended up number two. Third place went to Oliver Stone's depiction of two trapped policemen in World Trade Center.
Snakes on a Plane slithered into the top spot at the box office over the weekend, trailed by the Will Farrell NASCAR spoof Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. And in third place was Oliver Stone's Sept. 11 drama World Trade Center.