Thursday Daily Box Office Rally
First Place – Paramount’s ‘Paranormal Activity 2’ – A bigger-than-expected weekend debut of $40.7 million allowed this horror franchise to avoid the dreaded sophomore slump. A solid Thursday gross of $1.98 brings the domestic total after just seven days to $49.1 million. The IMAX experience contributed a strong $2.5 million to the opening weekend total.
Second Place – Paramount’s ‘Jackass 3D’ – The ‘Jackass’ crew continues to cough up strong numbers with a Thursday gross of $1.36 million. The film has now earned $93.1 million after just fourteen days of release and should cross the $100 million mark this weekend. Johnny Knoxville and company have elevated gross-out humor to high art and now to high finance!
Third Place – Summit’s ‘Red’ – Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Helen Mirren and Richard Dreyfus round out a very diverse, though somewhat unconventional action film cast and earn $1.12 million on Thursday. The film has now earned $48.1 million after fourteen days in release and this past weekend had a very small 31% drop.
Daily Box Office Top 12 Movies for Thursday, October 29, 2010:
| Movie Title | Thursday Gross
|
Theatres | Per-Theatre Average | Domestic Total |
| 1. Paranormal Activity 2 | $1.98M | 3,216 | $615 | $49.1M |
| 2. Jackass 3D | $1.36M | 3,111 | $440 | $93.1M |
| 3. RED | $1.1M | 3,273 | $343 | $48.1M |
| 4. Hereafter | $781k | 2,181 | $358 | $15.8M |
| 5. Secretariat | $569k | 3,108 | $183 | $39.7M |
| 6. The Social Network | $508k | 2,921 | $174 | $75.0M |
| 7. Life As We Know It | $482k | 3,019 | $160 | $39.5M |
| 8. The Town | $232k | 1,918 | $121 | $85.6M |
| 9. Legend of the Guardians | $166k | 2,236 | $74 | $50.9M |
| 10. Easy A | $121k | 1,632 | $75 | $55.2M |
| 11. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps | $108k | 1,255 | $86 | $50.4M |
| 12. Waiting for “Superman” | $107k | 290 | $370 | $3.98M |
*Thursday daily box office numbers provided by Hollywood.com Box Office.
Check back Sunday for the Weekend box office results!
