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‘Help’ moves upstairs with $20.5M, No. 1 weekend

LOS ANGELES

“The Help” continues to clean up at the box office, taking over the No. 1 spot with $20.5 million in its second weekend.

The DreamWorks Pictures film starring Viola Davis, Emma Stone and Octavia Spencer in a drama about Southern black maids had debuted in second place a week earlier. “The Help” raised its domestic total to $71.8 million and bumped 20th Century Fox’s “Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” which slipped to No. 2 with $16.3 million after two weekends at the top, according to studio estimates Sunday.

A rush of new movies had weak openings: the Weinstein Co. family sequel “Spy Kids: All the Time in the World” at No. 3 with $12 million; Lionsgate’s action remake “Conan the Barbarian” at No. 4 with $10 million; and the DreamWorks-Disney horror-comedy remake “Fright Night” at No. 5 with $8.3 million.

Rapper arrested in Ohio after organizing flash mob

STRONGSVILLE, Ohio

Authorities say rapper Machine Gun Kelly organized a flash mob at a suburban Cleveland mall and was charged with disorderly conduct.

Strongsville police say the group gathered Saturday, and mall management asked three people standing on a table near a second-floor railing to step down. Kelly was among the three. When they refused, police were called.

Police say they’re no longer in custody. Kelly tweeted later that “today was a statement.”

Sean “P. Diddy” Combs told MTV this month that he signed Kelly, an Ohio native, to his Bad Boy Records label.

Kardashian, Humphries wed in TV-friendly ceremony

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.

Kris Humphries has officially caught up with Kim Kardashian. The basketball pro and the reality star are husband and wife.

Publicist Jill Fritzo tells People magazine and E! that the 30-year-old Kardashian and the 26-year-old Humphries tied the knot Saturday night in the exclusive Montecito area near Santa Barbara, Calif.

The ceremony will be televised as a two-part special on E! in October.

It is the first marriage for Humphries and the second for Kardashian, who was married to music producer Damon Thomas from 2000 to 2004.

Associated Press