It was a week with a single new major release, so sure enough, Resident Evil: Afterlife landed in the top spot. The Summer season has been giving way to the Fall doldrums the last couple of weeks – problem is, it's still Summer. But with the kids back to school, there were significant drops in movies across the board. Takers, however, seems to be holding on a little better, and lifted itself one position even as its box office fell almost 48%. Meanwhile, The Expendables is inching ever closer to the $100 million mark, and might just get there after next weekend.
Speaking of next weekend, it officially begins the Fall movie season as no less than four movies are opening in wide release: Alpha and Omega, Devil (story, but not directed by, M. Night Shyamalan), Easy A, and The Town (starring and directed by Ben Affleck).
Here are the domestic box office actuals for the weekend of September 10-12, 2010:
|
Title |
Weekend Gross
(US+Canada)
|
change from
last week
|
Total Gross
|
1 |
Resident Evil: Afterlife
(Screen Gems)
|
$26,650,264 |
debut |
$26,650,264 |
2 |
Takers
(Screen Gems)
|
$5,675,611 |
-47.8% |
$47,680,783 |
3 |
The American
(Focus Features)
|
$5,674,240 |
-56.9% |
$28,111,358 |
4 |
Machete
(20th Century Fox)
|
$4,294,120 |
-62.4% |
$20,916,709 |
5 |
Going the Distance
(Warner Bros./New Line Cinema)
|
$3,788,222 |
-45.0% |
$13,952,322 |
6 |
The Other Guys
(Sony Pictures)
|
$3,347,995 |
-36.7% |
$112,442,408 |
7 |
The Last Exorcism
(Lionsgate Films)
|
$3,322,853 |
-54.7% |
$38,062,322 |
8 |
The Expendables
(Lionsgate Films)
|
$3,223,651 |
-51.3% |
$98,466,264 |
9 |
Eat Pray Love
(Sony Pictures)
|
$2,928,256 |
-39.0% |
$74,660,964 |
10 |
|
$2,802,390 |
-38.7% |
$282,211,978 |
11 |
Nanny McPhee Returns
(Universal)
|
$2,080,315 |
-41.1% |
$26,281,045 |
12 |
The Switch
(20th Century Fox)
|
$2,001,103 |
-35.9% |
$25,005,832 |
|