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George Clooney’s “The American” pulled ahead of “Machete” as the No. 1 movie in America, according to Sunday box office estimates. The Focus Features film earned $12.9 million, while Sony Screen Gems’ “Takers” — which led the box office last weekend — came in No. 2 with $11.4 million.
The Top-12 grossing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, September 5, 2010, are as follows:
| Rank | Film Name | Distributor Name | Weekend Revenue | Cume Revenue | Locs | Loc Avg |
| 1 | American, The | Focus Features | 12,968,744 | 16,112,529 | 2,823 | 4,593 |
| 2 | Takers | Sony | 11,450,000 | 37,900,825 | 2,206 | 5,190 |
| 3 | Machete | 20th Century Fox | 11,300,000 | 11,300,000 | 2,670 | 4,232 |
| 4 | Last Exorcism, The | Lionsgate | 7,550,000 | 32,322,384 | 2,874 | 2,627 |
| 5 | Going The Distance | Warner Bros. | 6,885,000 | 6,885,000 | 3,030 | 2,272 |
| 6 | Expendables, The | Lionsgate | 6,750,000 | 92,317,770 | 3,398 | 1,986 |
| 7 | Other Guys, The | Sony | 5,400,000 | 106,866,211 | 2,607 | 2,071 |
| 8 | Eat Pray Love | Sony | 4,850,000 | 68,954,034 | 2,663 | 1,821 |
| 9 | Nanny McPhee Returns | Universal | 4,574,560 | 23,440,535 | 2,708 | 1,689 |
| 10 | Inception | Warner Bros. | 4,530,000 | 277,103,254 | 1,704 | 2,658 |
| 11 | Switch, The | Miramax | 3,068,000 | 21,443,140 | 1,885 | 1,627 |
| 12 | Vampires Suck | 20th Century Fox | 3,000,000 | 32,298,657 | 2,434 | 1,232 |
