James Wan‘s Insidious 2 frightened awake the sleepy fall box office with $41 million in ticket sales — the No. 2 September opening of all time, as well as one of the top debuts ever for a supernatural horror title. The sequel, fueled by younger moviegoers and released Friday the 13th, cost a scant $5 million to produce.
The top 12 films of the weekend, as of Sunday, September 15, are as follows:
RANK | TITLE | DISTRIBUTOR NAME | WEEKEND REVENUE | CUME REVENUE | ||
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REVENUE | # OF LOCATIONS* | LOC AVG | ||||
1 | Insidious Chapter 2 | FilmDistrict | $41,050,000 | 3,049 | 13,463 | $41,050,000 |
2 | Family, The | Relativity Media | $14,500,000 | 3,091 | 4,691 | $14,500,000 |
3 | Riddick | Universal | $7,013,250 | 3,117 | 2,250 | $31,279,625 |
4 | Lee Daniels’ The Butler | The Weinstein Company | $5,582,000 | 3,239 | 1,723 | $100,041,118 |
5 | We’re The Millers | Warner Bros. | $5,415,000 | 3,238 | 1,672 | $131,602,096 |
6 | Instructions Not Included | Lionsgate | $4,250,000 | 932 | 4,560 | $26,580,698 |
7 | Planes | Disney | $3,066,000 | 2,739 | 1,119 | $82,983,656 |
8 | One Direction: This Is Us | Sony | $2,400,000 | 2,300 | 1,043 | $26,887,202 |
9 | Elysium | Sony | $2,050,000 | 1,720 | 1,191 | $88,387,615 |
10 | Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters | 20th Century Fox | $1,825,000 | 1,638 | 1,114 | $62,035,439 |
11 | Blue Jasmine | Sony Pictures Classics | $1,798,140 | 993 | 1,810 | $27,884,694 |
12 | World’s End, The | Focus Features | $1,346,661 | 1,243 | 1,083 | $23,986,235 |