Seven-Day Summary: 'Paranormal Activity 2' Haunts Weekly Top Spot
Fans of Paranormal Activity showed up in droves this week for its sequel, which easily took first place at the box office. Jackass 3-D crashed in its second week, while Red busted out of its comic book origins to have a great hold. The week's other major release, Hereafter, had a decent but ultimately unmemorable launch. Overall business was up around four percent from last year, when Paranormal Activity led with $27.8 million.
Paranormal Activity 2 opened to $49.2 million, which was a vast improvement over the first movie's $26.9 million haul in its first nationwide week. The sequel played at four times the number of theaters, though, and actually had a much lower per-theater average. Paranormal Activity 2 also had the highest-grossing opening week ever for a supernatural horror movie, barely ahead of The Grudge, The Blair Witch Project and The Haunting, all of which sold more tickets.
Jackass 3-D dropped a steep 58 percent to $27.6 million. While that may be expected based on its rabid fanbase, it was actually more extreme than the second week declines of Jackass: The Movie (43 percent) and Jackass: Number Two (50 percent). Still, Jackass 3-D's $93.2 million 14-day total makes it by-far the highest-grossing entry in the series, and it's set to pass $100 million this weekend.
Red eased 31 percent to $19.6 million, which was one of the better second-week holds this year. In two weeks, the comic book adaptation has notched a $48.1 million total, and on Thursday it edged ahead of Kick-Ass's final tally.
After playing in extremely limited release last week, Hereafter expanded to 2,181 theaters and earned $15.5 million. Among recent Clint Eastwood movies, that was a bigger start than Invictus and Changeling but way behind Gran Torino.
The Social Network continued to attract interest by dropping a light 31 percent to $9.4 million. It has now grossed a solid $75 million since debuting Oct. 1, and should pass the final gross of similar movie 21 by this time next week.
Secretariat was off just 25 percent to $9.2 million, bringing its three-week haul to $39.7 million. On Tuesday, it's total gross moved ahead of Life as We Know It, which had a higher opening on the same weekend earlier this month.
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Paranormal Activity 2 opened to $49.2 million, which was a vast improvement over the first movie's $26.9 million haul in its first nationwide week. The sequel played at four times the number of theaters, though, and actually had a much lower per-theater average. Paranormal Activity 2 also had the highest-grossing opening week ever for a supernatural horror movie, barely ahead of The Grudge, The Blair Witch Project and The Haunting, all of which sold more tickets.
Jackass 3-D dropped a steep 58 percent to $27.6 million. While that may be expected based on its rabid fanbase, it was actually more extreme than the second week declines of Jackass: The Movie (43 percent) and Jackass: Number Two (50 percent). Still, Jackass 3-D's $93.2 million 14-day total makes it by-far the highest-grossing entry in the series, and it's set to pass $100 million this weekend.
Red eased 31 percent to $19.6 million, which was one of the better second-week holds this year. In two weeks, the comic book adaptation has notched a $48.1 million total, and on Thursday it edged ahead of Kick-Ass's final tally.
After playing in extremely limited release last week, Hereafter expanded to 2,181 theaters and earned $15.5 million. Among recent Clint Eastwood movies, that was a bigger start than Invictus and Changeling but way behind Gran Torino.
The Social Network continued to attract interest by dropping a light 31 percent to $9.4 million. It has now grossed a solid $75 million since debuting Oct. 1, and should pass the final gross of similar movie 21 by this time next week.
Secretariat was off just 25 percent to $9.2 million, bringing its three-week haul to $39.7 million. On Tuesday, it's total gross moved ahead of Life as We Know It, which had a higher opening on the same weekend earlier this month.
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• Weekend Report: 'Paranormal Activity 2' Spikes to Horror High
Related Charts
• Weekly Box Office, October 22-28
• Daily Grosses
• All-Time Domestic Grosses
