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A crowded weekend at the box office saw Sony’s Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 opening to a strong $35 million from 4,001 theaters, while the three other new offerings — Ron Howard‘s Rush, Baggage Claim and Don Jon — turned in mixed performances. This is welcome news for Sony which has had a disastrous summer season.
Families fueled Cloudy 2‘s debut, which marks the fourth-biggest September opening of all time after fellow Sony titleHotel Transylvania, which rolled out on the same weekend a year ago, raking in $42.5 million; Insidious: Chapter 2, which opened to $40.3 million two weeks ago; and Sweet Home Alabama ($35.6 million).
The top 12 films of the weekend, as of Sunday, September 29, are as follows:
| RANK | TITLE | DISTRIBUTOR NAME | WEEKEND REVENUE | CUME REVENUE | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| REVENUE | # OF LOCATIONS* | LOC AVG | ||||
| 1 | Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 | Sony | $35,000,000 | 4,001 | 8,747 | $35,000,000 |
| 2 | Prisoners | Warner Bros. | $11,270,000 | 3,290 | 3,425 | $38,953,932 |
| 3 | Rush | Universal | $10,313,530 | 2,297 | 4,490 | $10,574,439 |
| 4 | Baggage Claim | Fox Searchlight | $9,300,000 | 2,027 | 4,588 | $9,300,000 |
| 5 | Don Jon | Relativity Media | $9,000,000 | 2,422 | 3,715 | $9,000,000 |
| 6 | Insidious Chapter 2 | FilmDistrict | $6,747,000 | 3,120 | 2,162 | $69,544,395 |
| 7 | Family, The | Relativity Media | $3,674,000 | 2,894 | 1,269 | $31,696,170 |
| 8 | Instructions Not Included | Lionsgate | $3,380,000 | 948 | 3,565 | $38,567,488 |
| 9 | We’re The Millers | Warner Bros. | $2,865,000 | 2,405 | 1,191 | $142,418,452 |
| 10 | Lee Daniels’ The Butler | The Weinstein Company | $2,417,000 | 2,062 | 1,172 | $110,281,069 |
| 11 | Enough Said | Fox Searchlight | $2,115,000 | 227 | 9,317 | $2,482,479 |
| 12 | Battle Of The Year | Sony | $2,000,000 | 2,008 | 996 | $7,468,292 |
