Gravity and Captain Phillips stayed at No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, to beat a host of newcomers. Carrie topped out at $17 million to come in No. 3. Sony’s three films — Captain Phillips, Carrie and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 — claimed spots No. 2 through No. 4 on the box office chart, with Cloudy 2‘s total domestic gross now at $93.1 million.
The Fifth Estate fared horribly in its North American launch, grossing an abysmal $1.7 million from 1,769 theaters to place No. 8, marking it the worst debut of 2013.
The top 12 films of the weekend, as of Sunday, October 20, are as follows:
RANK | TITLE | DISTRIBUTOR NAME | WEEKEND REVENUE | CUME REVENUE | ||
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REVENUE | # OF LOCATIONS* | LOC AVG | ||||
1 | Gravity | Warner Bros. | $31,030,000 | 3,820 | 8,123 | $170,566,130 |
2 | Captain Phillips | Sony | $17,300,000 | 3,020 | 5,728 | $53,330,235 |
3 | Carrie | Sony | $17,000,000 | 3,157 | 5,384 | $17,000,000 |
4 | Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 | Sony | $10,100,000 | 3,602 | 2,803 | $93,136,768 |
5 | Escape Plan | Lionsgate | $9,800,000 | 2,883 | 3,399 | $9,800,000 |
6 | Prisoners | Warner Bros. | $2,065,000 | 2,160 | 956 | $57,259,158 |
7 | Enough Said | Fox Searchlight | $1,800,000 | 757 | 2,377 | $10,787,447 |
8 | Fifth Estate | Disney | $1,714,000 | 1,769 | 968 | $1,714,000 |
9 | Runner Runner | 20th Century Fox | $1,625,000 | 2,011 | 808 | $17,536,318 |
10 | Insidious Chapter 2 | FilmDistrict | $1,533,000 | 1,665 | 920 | $80,923,241 |
11 | Rush | Universal | $1,256,850 | 1,197 | 1,050 | $24,619,029 |
12 | Machete Kills | Open Road | $1,213,032 | 2,538 | 477 | $6,412,271 |