Below are the top 12 weekend final numbers from the North American box office:

1. The Final Destination - $27,408,309
2. Inglourious Basterds - $19,303,653
3. Halloween II - $16,349,565
4. District 9 - $10,270,435
5. G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra - $7,715,572
6. Julie & Julia - $7,035,675
7. The Time Traveler's Wife - $6,452,270
8. Shorts - $4,511,345
9. Taking Woodstock - $3,457,760
10. G-Force - $2,824,808
11. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - $2,466,423
12. (500) Days Of Summer - $2,008,956

Overall, the US Box Office was down 1.6% on last weekend's gross.

Horror came back in a big way this weekend with two new entries competing for the same audience. Both films did well, although landing in number one spot as the clear winner is THE FINAL DESTINATION with a healthy $27.4M over the weekend. This new entry in the franchise had the 3D gimmick going for it, as well as the inflated ticket price. The film cost $40M so this is a great result. The other horror film, HALLOWEEN II, also did well with a more typical opening of $16.3M. However, with the film's much smaller $15M budget, this is a solid win as well.

Last weekend's number one film INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS lost 49% of its audience but still managed a healthy $19.3M to take its domestic total to $73M against a $70M budget. Director Quentin Tarantino has a big success with this new film, although it is following the fanboy-rush pattern of his previous films with big opening weekends and solid drops in subsequent weekends.

DISTRICT 9, one of this year's big winners, is continuing on its merry way, adding another $10.2M to take its domestic box office tally to $90M against a $30M budget. The film lost only 43.6% of its audience on last weekend and should cross the $100M barrier some time in the next week.

The only other new opener for the weekend is the $30M-budgeted TAKING WOODSTOCK which did not manage a very box office total at all with a paltry $3.4M despite being shown in far fewer venues than the other films in the Top 12.

The Top 12 at the US Box Office took in a total of $109,804,771 for the whole of the weekend 28-30 August 2009.