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The Box Office Gets Insidious

Insidious 2James 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:

RANKTITLEDISTRIBUTOR NAMEWEEKEND REVENUECUME REVENUE
REVENUE# OF LOCATIONS*LOC AVG
1Insidious Chapter 2FilmDistrict$41,050,0003,04913,463$41,050,000
2Family, TheRelativity Media$14,500,0003,0914,691$14,500,000
3RiddickUniversal$7,013,2503,1172,250$31,279,625
4Lee Daniels’ The ButlerThe Weinstein Company$5,582,0003,2391,723$100,041,118
5We’re The MillersWarner Bros.$5,415,0003,2381,672$131,602,096
6Instructions Not IncludedLionsgate$4,250,0009324,560$26,580,698
7PlanesDisney$3,066,0002,7391,119$82,983,656
8One Direction: This Is UsSony$2,400,0002,3001,043$26,887,202
9ElysiumSony$2,050,0001,7201,191$88,387,615
10Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters20th Century Fox$1,825,0001,6381,114$62,035,439
11Blue JasmineSony Pictures Classics$1,798,1409931,810$27,884,694
12World’s End, TheFocus Features$1,346,6611,2431,083$23,986,235

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