Variety reports the top movies, in terms of box office take, for the week of 8-14 October 2010. Facebook movie The Social Network held onto the top spot for a second week. Romantic comedy Life as We Know It and horse-racing Secretariat opened at #2 and #3, respectively. Animated adventure Legend of the Guardians: Owls of Ga’Hoole, therefore, slipped from #3 to #4, swooping up $9.4 million, for a three-week total of $41.8 million. Horror film My Soul to Takeopened at #6, taking in $8.7 million. Case 39 slipped from #7 to #9, earning $3.7 million, for a two-week total of $10.7 million. Let Me In slipped from #8 to #10, grossing $3.5 million, for a two-week total of $10.2 million.
Devil slipped from #9 to #13, scaring up $2.4million, for a four-week total of $30.6 million. Alpha and Omega slipped from #11 to #14, wolfing down $2.2 million, for a four-week total of $21.7 million. Resident Evil: Afterlife fell from #10 to #15, raising $1.8 million, for a five-week total of $59.4 million. Toy Story 3, which last week fell out of the top 25, this week climbed back to #17, playing up another $825 thousand, for a seventeen-week total of $412.3 million. Inception fell from #13 to #18, earning $700 thousand, for a thirteen-week total of $289.4 million. Despicable Me slipped from #19 to #22, grossing $500 thousand, for a fourteen-week total of $246.7 million.
Falling out of the top 25 this week was the Indian robot movie Endhiran, which was only open for a very limited run, as well as the version of the film in Telegu, Robo.