[Peter Knegt] Due to the Labor Day weekend, numbers came in a bit late this time around... Expanding to 8 screens, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's Katrina doc, "Trouble the Water," held up well in its second weekend. Grossing $51,178 over the four-day weekend, for a strong $6,397 average, the film's total now stands at $92,605 going into a slow-and-stead expansion. The film is booked into over 50 cities across the country (check out "Water"'s expansion schedule here).

Aaron Rose's "Beautiful Losers" bounced back a bit after a disappointing two weekends following a potent opening. Screening again at the IFC Center in New York and opening at the Nuart in Los Angeles, the self-distributed "Losers" grossed $8,062 over the weekend, for a decent $4,031 average and a $31,743 cume after four weekends. It opens in San Francisco this Friday and Portland, Oregon the next.

With no opening docs reporting to Rentrak, happenings across the doc-box office sphere were minimal. Only a few reporting docs continued expansion, among them James Marsh's "Man on Wire" adding 17 screens and grossing another $302,336. That takes the Magnolia Pictures release to an impressive total of $1,526,761 after six weeks. "Wire"'s fellow Sundance alum, Patrick Creadon's "I.O.U.S.A.," does not look to hold on quite as nicely. In its second weekend, the Roadside Attractions release added 3 screens but managed to drop 21.7%, grossing $48,004 on 21 screens for a four-day average of $2,285. Finally, Nanette Burstein's "American Teen" finally retreated from expansion, dropping 35 screens and taking in $43,207 over the weekend. Its total of $861,817 shouldn't get much higher as it fades into Sundance cautionary tale oblivion.