Audiences feasted on zombies as the fright flick "Dawn of the Dead" ruled the box office, debuting with $27.3 million and bumping "The Passion of the Christ" from the top spot. Mel Gibson (news)'s "The Passion" took in $19.2 million, slipping to second place.

Opening in third place with $11.4 million was the serial-killer thriller "Taking Lives," starring Angelina Jolie (news) and Ethan Hawke (news) in a tale of an FBI (news - web sites) profiler tracking a murderer who assumes victims' identities.

Source: Yahoo [1]