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Finishing with more than four times the total of the the number two movie, “Takers” the Resident Evil franchise decimated the box office with its latest incarnation, “Afterlife.” The film took in over $27 million in what was otherwise a very slow week for the movie industry.
The Top-12 grossing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, September 12, 2010, are as follows:
| Rank | Film Name | Distributor Name | Weekend Revenue | Cume Revenue | Locs | Loc Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Resident Evil: Afterlife | Sony | 27,700,000 | 27,700,000 | 3,203 | 8,648 |
| 2 | Takers | Sony | 6,100,000 | 48,105,172 | 2,191 | 2,784 |
| 3 | American, The | Focus Features | 5,895,806 | 28,332,924 | 2,833 | 2,081 |
| 4 | Machete | 20th Century Fox | 4,200,000 | 20,822,589 | 2,678 | 1,568 |
| 5 | Going The Distance | Warner Bros. | 3,835,000 | 13,999,100 | 3,030 | 1,265 |
| 6 | Other Guys, The | Sony | 3,600,000 | 112,694,413 | 2,246 | 1,602 |
| 7 | Last Exorcism, The | Lionsgate | 3,450,000 | 38,189,469 | 2,731 | 1,263 |
| 8 | Expendables, The | Lionsgate | 3,250,000 | 98,492,613 | 3,058 | 1,062 |
| 9 | Inception | Warner Bros. | 3,015,000 | 282,424,588 | 1,583 | 1,904 |
| 10 | Eat Pray Love | Sony | 2,900,000 | 74,632,708 | 2,339 | 1,239 |
| 11 | Switch, The | Miramax | 2,028,000 | 25,032,729 | 1,595 | 1,271 |
| 12 | Nanny McPhee Returns | Universal | 2,021,220 | 26,221,950 | 2,364 | 855 |
