The opening movies this week are a few highly anticipated movies that are facing off on the silver screen this Friday, October 1st. We’ll see if The Social Network gets enough “like’ button hits vs. the eternal power of the vampire in Let Me In. (I’m not sure, but I think a vampire would outlast Facebook… only because social networks do tend to come and go.) But before we look at the opening movies, let’s check on the …
Box Office Numbers fr September 24 Week
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Last week, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps outperformed everyone, pulling in $19M at the box office. Close behind was Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole and The Town kept up it’s great performance at the box office, bringing in just under $16M last weekend.
Here’s something to ponder though: Even though The Town is in the third slot, per theater, it outperformed everyone pulling in $5400 per theater, while Wall Street 2 pulled in $5300 per theater. (Theaters: The Town: 2,885; Wall Street 2: 3,565). A quirky technical observation: Waiting for Superman outdid everyone by averaging just under $35k per theater… OK, it was only in 4 theaters in its first week.
Check out the 10 top-performing movies from last weekend, where we still see Resident Evil Afterlife hanging on as well as Takers and Inception:.
| Title | Weekend | Gross |
| Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps | $19M | $19M |
| Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole | $16.1M | $16.1M |
| The Town | $15.6M | $48.7M |
| Easy A | $10.6M | $32.7M |
| You Again | $8.41M | $8.41M |
| Devil | $6.61M | $21.9M |
| Resident Evil: Afterlife | $4.95M | $52.1M |
| Alpha and Omega | $4.74M | $15.2M |
| Takers | $1.62M | $54.9M |
| Inception | $1.25M | $287M |
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