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‘Paranormal Activity 2’ Scares Up The Top Spot

Paranormal Activity 2“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:

1Paranormal Activity 2Paramount41,500,00041,500,0003,21612,904
2Jackass 3DParamount21,600,00087,147,2263,1116,943
3RedSummit Entertainment15,000,00043,483,2693,2734,582
4HereafterWarner Bros.12,005,00012,320,3572,1815,504
5Social Network, TheSony7,300,00072,930,7562,9212,499
6SecretariatDisney6,917,00037,359,9093,1082,225
7Life As We Know ItWarner Bros.6,150,00037,615,3813,0192,037
8Legend Of The Guardians:Owls Of Ga’HooleWarner Bros.3,175,00050,171,7142,2361,419
9Town, TheWarner Bros.2,720,00084,652,5241,9181,418
10Easy ASony1,750,00054,785,2421,6321,072
11Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps20th Century Fox1,215,00049,972,1351,255968
12My Soul To TakeUniversal1,055,62513,968,9051,689625

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