Gravity rocketed into first place at the box office by earning $55.6 million in its debut weekend. The film became the best October opening of all time and was the best three-day showing of Sandra Bullock and George Clooney’s careers.
Thanks to raving reviews for Bullock and Clooney’s onscreen performances and phenomenal IMAX 3D graphics, the film is generating a TON of pre-Oscar buzz. I see a lot of nominations for this film in sight!
Second place went to last week’s winner, the family friendly Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2, which earned $21.5 million in its sophomore weekend at the box office. To date, the film has earned $60.6 million at the North American box office.
Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake’s new film, Runner Runner, debuted in third place with a meager $7.6 million. In Runner Runner, Timberlake stars as a Princeton graduate student who travels to Coast Rice after he believes an internet tycoon (played by Ben Affleck) has taken him for all he’s got on an online poker website.
It looks like most of you went to go see Gravity this weekend. Out of the top 10 films at the weekend box office, only three made more than $7 million.
Take a look at where the top 10 films rank at this weekend’s box office.
- Gravity – $55.6 million
- Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2 – $21.5 million
- Runner Runner – $7.6 million
- Prisoners – $5.7 million
- Rush – $4.4 million
- Don Jon – $4.16 million
- Baggage Claim – $4.12 million
- Insidious Chapter 2 – $3.8 million
- Pulling Strings – $2.5 million
- Enough Said – $2.1 million
