“Paranormal Activity 2” had a spooky-good weekend, topping the domestic box office with an estimated $41.5 million in the best debut ever by a horror film. The tally was better than expected for the haunted-house prequel, which beat its franchise predecessor’s bow running away.
The Top-12 grossing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, October 24, 2010 are as follows:
1 | Paranormal Activity 2 | Paramount | 41,500,000 | 41,500,000 | 3,216 | 12,904 |
2 | Jackass 3D | Paramount | 21,600,000 | 87,147,226 | 3,111 | 6,943 |
3 | Red | Summit Entertainment | 15,000,000 | 43,483,269 | 3,273 | 4,582 |
4 | Hereafter | Warner Bros. | 12,005,000 | 12,320,357 | 2,181 | 5,504 |
5 | Social Network, The | Sony | 7,300,000 | 72,930,756 | 2,921 | 2,499 |
6 | Secretariat | Disney | 6,917,000 | 37,359,909 | 3,108 | 2,225 |
7 | Life As We Know It | Warner Bros. | 6,150,000 | 37,615,381 | 3,019 | 2,037 |
8 | Legend Of The Guardians:Owls Of Ga’Hoole | Warner Bros. | 3,175,000 | 50,171,714 | 2,236 | 1,419 |
9 | Town, The | Warner Bros. | 2,720,000 | 84,652,524 | 1,918 | 1,418 |
10 | Easy A | Sony | 1,750,000 | 54,785,242 | 1,632 | 1,072 |
11 | Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps | 20th Century Fox | 1,215,000 | 49,972,135 | 1,255 | 968 |
12 | My Soul To Take | Universal | 1,055,625 | 13,968,905 | 1,689 | 625 |