Below are the top 12 weekend final
numbers from the North American box office:
1. Where The Wild Things Are - $32,695,407
2. Law Abiding Citizen - $21,039,502
3. Paranormal Activity - $19,617,650
4. Couples Retreat - $17,227,390
5. The Stepfather - $11,581,586
6. Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs - $8,017,871
7. Zombieland - $7,616,939
8. Toy Story / Toy Story 2 (3D) - $3,016,580
9. Surrogates
- $1,917,398
10. The Invention Of Lying - $1,907,398
11. Whip It - $1,507,379
12. Capitalism: A Love Story - $1,455,510
Overall, the US Box Office was up
33.5% on last weekend's gross.
The box office this weekend moved
in to an even higher gear as a number of new films and a surprise
hit fuelled a lot of activity among movie goers.
The new film from director Spike Jonze,
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, easily took out top spot with a strong,
and better than expected $32.6M over the weekend. The fantasy film
for adults (and kids) was well received by audiences and most critics,
and with this good opening, it should have no problem at recouping
its large $100M budget.
Second place goes to another new opener,
LAW ABIDING CITIZEN, a thriller starring Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler.
The film managed a strong $21M despite negative critical backlash,
and is a much needed hit for both stars who have not had good runs
at the box office of late.
Third place goes to the year's shocking
surprise of a film, PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, which increased its audience
on last weekend by an astonishing 148% to take $19.6M. The film
that cost only $15,000 to make has now scooped up $33.1M and is
easily the biggest box office story since THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT.
COUPLES RETREAT took a hit this weekend
from all the new competition, losing 50% of its audience on last
weekend to take in $17.2M.
The other new opener this weekend
is the horror/thriller THE STEPFATHER, which managed an okay $11.5M.
This is a good result as horror films in October tend to have a
predictable box office pattern, and starting this strong will only
help its cause, especially considering how much other competition
was out there this weekend.
The Top 12 at the US Box Office took
in a total of $127,600,527 for the whole of the weekend 16-18 October
2009.
