Sandler's "Click" (Remote) Controls Box Office

Click definitely clicked.

The new

Adam Sandler comedy, about a guy whose magical remote control can shift time to suit his whims, zapped up $40 million to win the weekend box office derby.

Click became the eighth number one opener for the funnyman, but it was only ranked fourth in his personal record book. The PG-13 Sony release edged out 50 First Dates ($39.8 million), but come in behind The Longest Yard ($47.6 million), Anger Management ($42.2 million) and Big Daddy ($41.5 million).

Opening broadly at 3,749 sites, Click, which also stars

Kate Beckinsale and

Christopher Walken, averaged $10,670 per screen, tops among all films in the weekend Top 10.

Sandler's latest goofball routine also bumped Cars down to second place, after two weeks parked in first. While some industry wags suggested Pixar might have lost its magic touch after Cars debuted behind the 'toon factory's other recent hits, the auto-happy flick, starring the voices of

Owen Wilson,

Paul Newman and

Bonnie Hunt, is definitely shaping up to be a major hit. In its third week, it dropped a meager 31 percent from week two, speeding off with $23.3 million and brining its gross to $156.7 million.

By comparison,

Jack Black's Nacho Libre, which opened in second place last week, dropped a much sharper 55 percent to third place. Paramount's wrestling farce pinned $12.7 million from Friday to Sunday for a total of $53.2 million.

The weekend's other major newcomer, Waist Deep, a crime-spree thriller starring Tyrese Gibson,

Meagan Good and The Game, squeezed into fourth place with $9.4 million. But the R-rated Focus/Rogue release was second among major releases in per-screen average, racking up $9,367 at a mere 1,004 locations.

Meanwhile, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift drifted sharply in its second weekend, crashing down 59 percent. The Universal release revved up just $9.8 million for a two-week tally of $43.1 million. In contrast the studio's post-romance tale The Break-Up only dropped 33 percent in its fourth weekend. The

Jennifer Aniston-

Vince Vaughn match-up earned another $6.6 million in seventh place and crossed over the $100 million mark, with a gross of $104.2 million.

Also only dropping slightly was another non-action tale, the

Sandra Bullock-

Keanu Reeves time-glitch romance The Lake House. The Warner Bros release only fell 35 percent in its second weekend, down from its fourth place opening to sixth, but its $8.8 million weekend only pushes its overall take to a modest $29.8 million.

Also in its second weekend, Fox's Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties fell just 35 percent and dropped one slot. But that sounds better than it is: the live-action/animation combo only scratched up $5.2 million in eighth place to bring its two-week kitty to a measly $16.5 million.

Despite only two additions to the Top 10, it was nevertheless a sixth up weekend in a row compared to last year. Although the box office was down 10 percent from last weekend, it was up 10 percent over this time last year, when Batman Begins topped

Nicole Kidman's Bewitched.

This weekend marked the halfway point of the year, and the receipt-counters at Exhibitor Relations calculate the overall box office at $4.3 billion compared to last year's $4.1 billion. Revenue is up nearly 4.5 percent, although attendance is only up by 1.3 percent. Expect a big shake-up at the top next week as Superman Returns hits the multiplex.

Here's a rundown of the top-grossing films, based on final studio figures compiled by Exhibitor Relations

1. Click, $40 million
2. Cars, $23.3 million
3. Nacho Libre, $12.7 million
4. Waist Deep, $9.8 million
5. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, $9.4 million
6. The Lake House, $8.8 million
7. The Break-Up, $6.6 million
8. Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties, $5.2 million
9. X-Men: The Last Stand, $4.8 million
10. The Da Vinci Code, $4.1 million

(Originally published June 25, 2006 at 1:10 p.m. PT.)