A remake of the 1980 horror flick "The Fog" scared up a fortune over the weekend as moviegoers made it the No. 1 movie in North America.

The PG-13 fright-fest - about a killer mist that enshrouds a small coastal village, bringing with it the vengeful ghosts of bloodthirsty pirates - earned $12.2 million at the box office in its first three days of release.

It knocked last weekend's top dog, the clay-animated comedy "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit," to second place. "Gromit" had sales of $11.7 million.

"Elizabethtown," a romantic comedy directed by Cameron Crowe and starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst, grossed $11 million to debut at No. 3.

One of the weekend's big disappointments was "Domino," an R-rated action flick starring Keira Knightley as a model-turned-bounty-hunter - based on the real life story of actor Laurence Harvey's daughter. It came in at No. 6, with just $4.7 million.

Jodie Foster's airplane thriller, "Flightplan," continued to fly high, falling just two notches to fourth place in its fourth weekend of wide release. It grossed $6.5 million to bring its cumulative tally to $70.8 million.

In fifth place was "In Her Shoes," with Cameron Diaz and Shirley MacLaine, bringing in $6.1 million.