‘The Help’ reigns again over storm-soaked weekend

"The Help" remained Hollywood's top draw with $14.3 million on a slow late-summer weekend whose business was even more sluggish as many East Coast theaters closed to ride out the storm there.

Studio executives estimate that about 1,000 theaters shut down for at least part of the weekend and that business may have been off 15 to 20 percent because of the storm.

"The Help," the No. 1 film for two straight weekends, raised its domestic total to $96.6 million and should cross the $100 million mark Tuesday.

"Colombiana," filmed in part in Chicago, opened in second place with $10.3 million. Zoe Saldana ("Avatar") plays an assassin out for revenge against the drug lords …