Good Weekend for Jack the Ripper

By C. Young

Monday October 22, 2001 09:59 AM EDT

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"From Hell," about the first modern serial killer, Jack the Ripper, rose to the top of the weekend box office. The film, which costars Johnny Depp and Heather Graham, grossed $11.3 million. Playing a teenage mother with an ambition to write, Drew Barrymore's new comedy, "Riding in Cars With Boys," finished second with $10.8 million. Denzel Washington's "Training Day" slipped to third, and "Bandits," starring Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton, continued its weak showing at No. 4. Biggest disappointment was the much-anticipated prison drama "The Last Castle," in which Robert Redford leads the charge against James Gandolfini as the evil warden. "Saturday Night Live" veteran Chris Kattan finished seventh in the critically lambasted "Corky Romano." The top 10:

1.) "From Hell," 11.3 million
2.) "Riding in Cars with Boys," 10.8 million
3.) "Training Day," 9.5 million
4.) "Bandits," 8.4 million
5.) "The Last Castle," 7.1 million
6.) "Serendipity, 5.8 million
7.) "Corky Romano," 5.3 million
8.) "Don't Say a Word," 4.4 million
9.) "Zoolander," 3.3 million
10.) "Iron Monkey," 3.2 million