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Thor: The Dark World stayed at No. 1 in its second weekend at the North American box office, but Malcolm D. Lee‘s comedy The Best Man Holiday came much closer than anyone expected to the hammer-wielding superhero in grossing $30.6 million to place No. 2. In another sensational showing for Disney and Marvel Studios,Thor 2 — returning Chris Hemsworth in the title role — fell 55 percent domestically to $38.4 million for a total of $150 million.
The top 12 films of the weekend, as of Sunday, November 17, are as follows:
| RANK | TITLE | DISTRIBUTOR NAME | WEEKEND REVENUE | CUME REVENUE | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| REVENUE | # OF LOCATIONS* | LOC AVG | ||||
| 1 | Thor: The Dark World | Disney | $38,454,000 | 3,841 | 10,011 | $146,965,000 |
| 2 | Best Man Holiday, The | Universal | $30,592,760 | 2,024 | 15,115 | $30,592,760 |
| 3 | Last Vegas | CBS Films | $8,865,000 | 3,237 | 2,738 | $46,957,983 |
| 4 | Free Birds | Relativity Media | $8,300,000 | 3,510 | 2,364 | $42,218,205 |
| 5 | Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa | Paramount | $7,670,000 | 3,190 | 2,404 | $90,201,638 |
| 6 | Gravity | Warner Bros. | $6,280,000 | 2,560 | 2,453 | $240,555,614 |
| 7 | Ender’s Game | Lionsgate | $6,200,000 | 3,236 | 1,915 | $53,776,584 |
| 8 | 12 Years A Slave | Fox Searchlight | $4,700,000 | 1,411 | 3,330 | $24,948,785 |
| 9 | Captain Phillips | Sony | $4,500,000 | 2,626 | 1,713 | $97,617,458 |
| 10 | About Time | Universal | $3,462,400 | 1,280 | 2,705 | $11,568,048 |
| 11 | Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 | Sony | $1,950,000 | 1,645 | 1,185 | $113,016,498 |
| 12 | Dallas Buyers Club | Focus Features | $1,784,924 | 184 | 9,700 | $3,044,006 |
