Further boosting its profile, Lee Daniels’ The Butler topped the box office in its second weekend with $17 million, pushing its total to $52.3 million and becoming Daniel’s most successful film in North America.
The top 12 films of the weekend, as of Sunday, August 25, are as follows:
RANK | TITLE | DISTRIBUTOR NAME | WEEKEND REVENUE | CUME REVENUE | ||
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REVENUE | # OF LOCATIONS* | LOC AVG | ||||
1 | Lee Daniels’ The Butler | The Weinstein Company | $17,018,000 | 3,110 | 5,472 | $52,274,813 |
2 | We’re The Millers | Warner Bros. | $13,500,000 | 3,445 | 3,918 | $91,740,199 |
3 | Mortal Instruments | Sony | $9,300,000 | 3,118 | 2,982 | $14,051,402 |
4 | World’s End, The | Focus Features | $8,942,307 | 1,549 | 5,772 | $8,942,307 |
5 | Planes | Disney | $8,567,000 | 3,378 | 2,536 | $59,591,000 |
6 | Elysium | Sony | $7,100,000 | 2,913 | 2,437 | $69,053,938 |
7 | You’re Next | Lionsgate | $7,050,000 | 2,437 | 2,892 | $7,050,000 |
8 | Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters | 20th Century Fox | $5,200,000 | 2,730 | 1,904 | $48,346,453 |
9 | Blue Jasmine | Sony Pictures Classics | $4,300,119 | 1,283 | 3,351 | $14,798,921 |
10 | Kick-Ass 2 | Universal | $4,270,250 | 2,945 | 1,450 | $22,423,385 |
11 | 2 Guns | Universal | $3,387,440 | 1,841 | 1,840 | $65,381,610 |
12 | Jobs | Open Road | $3,001,000 | 2,381 | 1,260 | $12,144,287 |