Paul Blart: Mall Cop earned $21.5 million dollars this weekend according to early projections, dropping only 32% from its haul last weekend and putting it on top for the second week in a row.  “God is dead,” said industry insiders.

The closest thing to good news is that the awesome Gran Torino fell only 27% since last  weekend after being out for seven weeks (a pretty solid performance), and Inkheart, Brendan Fraser’s latest lamefest, debuted a disappointing seventh.  But in a week where Paul Blart‘s on top, good news is only good in the sense that you can eat all the ice cream you want and not gain weight, but only because you have cancer.

(full top 10 after the jump)

Movie             Rev.   Theaters  Wks     Avg./   Pct.    Total
                ($mln)                   Theater  Chg.    ($mln)

 1. Paul Blart   $21.5    3,143     2     $6,841   -32    $64.8
 2. Underworld    20.7    2,942     1      7,036   --      20.7
 3. Gran Torino   16.0    3,045     7      5,255   -27     97.6
 4. Hotel Dogs    12.4    3,271     2      3,779   -27     37.0
 5. Slumdog       10.6    1,411    11      7,477    80     55.9
 6. My Bloody     10.1    2,534     2      3,966   -53     37.7
 7. Inkheart       7.73   2,655     1      2,910   --      7.73
 8. Bride Wars     7.0    2,621     3      2,671   -40     48.7
 9. Button         6.0    2,263     5      2,651     8    111.0
10. Notorious      5.7    1,641     2      3,473   -72     31.8

[via Bloomberg]