Variety reports the top movies, in terms of box office take, for the week of 1-7 October 2010. Facebook movie The Social Network opened at #1. Animated adventure Legend of the Guardians: Owls of Ga’Hoole held steady at #3, swooping up $13.2 million, for a two-week total of $32.4 million. Horror film Case 39 opened at #7, earning $7.0 million. Horror film Let Me In opened at #8, grossing $6.7 million. Devil slipped from #6 to #9, scaring up $4.5 million, for a three-week total of $28.2 million. Resident Evil: Afterlife slipped from #7 to #10, raising $3.8 million, for a four-week total of $57.6 million.
Alpha and Omega slipped from #8 to #11, wolfing down $3.5 million, for a three-week total of $19.5 million. Indian robot movie Endhiran opened at #12, making $1.5 million (the version of the film in Telegu, Robo, itself came in at #20, making $480 thousand). Inception slipped from #10 to #13, earning $1.2 million, for a twelve-week total of $288.7 million. Despicable Me slipped from #16 to #19, grossing $550 thousand, for a thirteen-week total of $246.2 million.
Falling out of the top 25 this week were:
Nanny McPhee Returns (last week’s #18) after seven weeks in release (box office total: $28.6 million)
The Last Exorcism (last week’s #21) after six weeks in release ($41.0 million)
Toy Story 3 (last week’s #23) after sixteen weeks in release ($411.5 million)