Domestic Box Office For Oct 2, 2010
| TD | YD | Release | Distributor | Daily | %± YD | %± LW | Theaters | Avg | To Date | Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | The Social Network | Sony Pictures Releasing | $8,876,169 | +10.9% | - | 2,771 | $3,203 | $16,876,338 | 2 |
| 2 | 4 | Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole | Warner Bros. | $5,161,686 | +100.7% | -25.1% | 3,575 | $1,443 | $26,924,774 | 9 |
| 3 | 2 | Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps | Twentieth Century Fox | $4,395,524 | +34% | -42.4% | 3,597 | $1,221 | $33,450,873 | 9 |
| 4 | 3 | The Town | Warner Bros. | $4,256,202 | +35.9% | -36% | 2,935 | $1,450 | $61,695,303 | 16 |
| 5 | 5 | Easy A | Screen Gems | $3,017,578 | +32.7% | -34.8% | 2,974 | $1,014 | $40,719,939 | 16 |
| 6 | 8 | You Again | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | $2,730,954 | +61.7% | -23.6% | 2,548 | $1,071 | $15,305,258 | 9 |
| 7 | 7 | Case 39 | Paramount Vantage | $2,176,153 | +19% | - | 2,211 | $984 | $4,004,631 | 2 |
| 8 | 6 | Let Me In | Overture Films | $2,057,742 | +7.5% | - | 2,021 | $1,018 | $3,971,438 | 2 |
| 9 | 9 | Devil | Universal Pictures | $1,662,440 | +47.9% | -43.1% | 2,392 | $695 | $26,514,080 | 16 |
| 10 | 11 | Alpha and Omega | Lionsgate | $1,358,477 | +120.3% | -36.8% | 2,303 | $589 | $17,999,678 | 16 |
| 11 | 10 | Resident Evil: Afterlife | Screen Gems | $1,220,494 | +53.2% | -42.9% | 1,907 | $640 | $55,847,657 | 23 |
| 12 | 12 | Inception | Warner Bros. | $471,124 | +91.1% | -16.7% | 625 | $753 | $288,218,801 | 79 |
| 13 | 13 | Takers | Screen Gems | $377,958 | +64.2% | -50.9% | 773 | $488 | $55,984,961 | 37 |
| 14 | 14 | Catfish | Rogue Pictures | $231,201 | +14.9% | +30.9% | 136 | $1,700 | $1,463,588 | 16 |
| 15 | 16 | The Other Guys | Sony Pictures Releasing | $210,345 | +56.7% | -55.3% | 566 | $371 | $117,602,300 | 58 |
| 16 | 17 | Despicable Me | Universal Pictures | $206,035 | +89.4% | -22.4% | 463 | $445 | $245,966,760 | 86 |
| 17 | 15 | Waiting for 'Superman' | Paramount Vantage | $143,342 | -9.5% | +194.9% | 34 | $4,215 | $494,381 | 9 |
| 18 | 18 | Eat Pray Love | Sony Pictures Releasing | $135,541 | +41.2% | -53.8% | 398 | $340 | $79,621,617 | 51 |
| 19 | 19 | Salt | Sony Pictures Releasing | $122,504 | +39.8% | +86.2% | 288 | $425 | $117,484,751 | 72 |
| 20 | 23 | Lottery Ticket | Warner Bros. | $119,225 | +92.3% | -24.4% | 302 | $394 | $24,185,374 | 44 |
| 21 | 20 | The Expendables | Lionsgate | $105,614 | +59.2% | -59.1% | 410 | $257 | $102,457,011 | 51 |
| 22 | 24 | Nanny McPhee Returns | Universal Pictures | $101,010 | +82.6% | -45% | 481 | $210 | $28,458,430 | 44 |
| 23 | 22 | The American | Focus Features | $96,261 | +48.3% | -76.2% | 374 | $257 | $35,153,233 | 32 |
| 24 | 21 | Machete | Twentieth Century Fox | $91,350 | +40.6% | -65.7% | 314 | $290 | $26,147,744 | 30 |
| 25 | 25 | Never Let Me Go | Fox Searchlight Pictures | $79,409 | +46.8% | -22.9% | 43 | $1,846 | $670,816 | 18 |
| 26 | 27 | Grown Ups | Sony Pictures Releasing | $76,643 | +73.4% | -28.7% | 230 | $333 | $161,604,386 | 100 |
| 27 | 26 | Dinner for Schmucks | DreamWorks | $73,564 | +44% | -34.5% | 261 | $281 | $72,769,122 | 65 |
| 28 | 28 | Vampires Suck | Twentieth Century Fox | $67,176 | +56.7% | -35.4% | 261 | $257 | $36,328,599 | 46 |
| 29 | 29 | The Last Exorcism | Lionsgate | $59,274 | +54.5% | -63.8% | 307 | $193 | $40,963,696 | 37 |
| 30 | 33 | Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore | Warner Bros. | $55,187 | +106% | -38% | 188 | $293 | $43,394,644 | 65 |
| 31 | 30 | Hubble 3D | Warner Bros. | $51,584 | +60.5% | -26.3% | 58 | $889 | $16,120,045 | 198 |
| 32 | 32 | Jack Goes Boating | Overture Films | $43,749 | +51.7% | +14.5% | 78 | $560 | $244,168 | 16 |
| 33 | 31 | Buried | Lionsgate | $40,223 | +29.8% | +10.2% | 33 | $1,218 | $210,295 | 9 |
| 34 | 35 | Ramona and Beezus | Twentieth Century Fox | $38,188 | +94.6% | -24.6% | 161 | $237 | $25,948,812 | 72 |
| 35 | 36 | The Twilight Saga: Eclipse | Summit Entertainment | $30,888 | +57.4% | -43.8% | 141 | $219 | $300,393,458 | 95 |
| 36 | 37 | Piranha 3D | - | $30,713 | +69% | +87.7% | 95 | $323 | $24,882,814 | 44 |
| 37 | 34 | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Universal Pictures | $28,835 | +26.5% | -58% | 120 | $240 | $31,476,890 | 51 |
| 38 | 41 | The Kids Are All Right | Focus Features | $19,812 | +56.6% | -48% | 64 | $309 | $20,720,551 | 86 |
| 39 | 39 | Winter's Bone | Roadside Attractions | $19,095 | +37.7% | -20.6% | 72 | $265 | $6,110,399 | 114 |
| 40 | 38 | The Virginity Hit | Sony Pictures Releasing | $18,964 | +9.3% | -83.9% | 434 | $43 | $522,947 | 9 |
| 41 | 40 | Going the Distance | Warner Bros. | $17,757 | +40.2% | -83.5% | 121 | $146 | $17,657,559 | 30 |
| 42 | 42 | Under the Sea 3D | Warner Bros. | $11,644 | +33% | -34.3% | 18 | $646 | $24,326,503 | 597 |
| 43 | 43 | The Tillman Story | The Weinstein Company | $9,487 | +20.7% | -47.4% | 27 | $351 | $626,388 | 44 |
| 44 | 44 | Avatar 2010 Special Edition | Twentieth Century Fox | $9,462 | +46.5% | -38.4% | 19 | $498 | $10,504,707 | 37 |
| 45 | 45 | The Concert | The Weinstein Company | $9,006 | +67.2% | -14.3% | 21 | $428 | $606,235 | 65 |
| 46 | 46 | Flipped | Warner Bros. | $7,267 | +40.7% | -80.1% | 35 | $207 | $1,736,054 | 58 |
| 47 | 47 | Bran Nue Dae | Freestyle Releasing | $2,081 | +3.2% | -85% | 13 | $160 | $108,872 | 23 |
| 48 | 49 | Undertow | The Film Collaborative | $1,226 | +121.7% | -37.9% | 1 | $1,226 | $16,424 | 16 |
| 49 | 48 | The Disappearance of Alice Creed | Anchor Bay Films | $1,172 | +38.4% | +97.3% | 3 | $390 | $160,835 | 58 |
| 50 | 51 | Solitary Man | Anchor Bay Films | $363 | +46.4% | -63.3% | 1 | $363 | $4,360,548 | 135 |
| 51 | 50 | Metal Messiah | - | $210 | -36.4% | - | 1 | $210 | $1,648 | 17 |