Weekend Box Office Numbers October 15th-17th

By: Robert Acosta

Finally something fun and interesting to write about for the Weekend Box Office column!

Jackass 3D hit theaters on October 15th to tremendous box office numbers. Actually, historical box office numbers. I'll explain after we look at this past weekends box office numbers:

1. Jackass 3D   $50 Million
2. Red   $22.5 Million
3. The Social Network   $11 Million
4. Secretariat   $9.5 Million
5. Life as We Know It   $9.2 Million
6. Legend of The Guardian: Owls of Ga'hoole   $4.2 Million
7. The Town   $4 Million
8. My Soul to Take   $3.2 Million
9. Easy A   $2.7 Million
10. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps   $2.4 Million

So, as you can see in the numbers, Jackass 3D took the top spot with $50 Million. As I said earlier, Jackass broke a record. The highest opening weekend in October belongs to Jackass 3D with $50 million. Previously held by Scary Movie 3 with $48 million, glad to see Jackass 3D made its money.

The movie Red also premiered this past Friday with a strong showing at the number 2 spot with almost $23 million. With mostly positive reviews I see this movie making its money back.

Next week we have Paranormal Activity 2 coming to theaters and i'm almost 100% sure that the movie will take the top spot. Although, Jackass 3D is looking strong and word of mouth for this kind of movie always works.