American moviegoers helped lift The Fog over the relatively quiet weekend, bringing the remake of director John Carpenter's horror flick to the top of the box office with $12.2 million.

The film stars "Smallville" hunk Tom Welling and "Lost" star Maggie Grace. Landing in second place was Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, with $11.7 million, while director Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown' debuted with $11 million in the number 3 spot.

The Fog, a remake of a 1980 horror classic, topped the box office in a close but underwhelming weekend at the movies. Fog's $12.2 million was enough to edge out a solid second-week audience hold for Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit, at $11.7 million. While $12.2 million is hardly a blockbuster opening for a major studio release, Columbia executives said they were cheered by the film's first-week performance in light of its modest budget.

Overall, U.S. and Canadian business for the top 12 films Friday through Sunday was down more than 18 percent from the same weekend in 2004, marking the third straight weekend of year-to-year declines, according to box office tracking service Exhibitor Relations Inc.

Flightplan, starring Jodie Foster, was in fourth with $6.5 million, and In Her Shoes, with Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette was fifth with $6.1 million.