Despite being Halloween, this weekend has been one of the weakest in terms of collection in the US market. And that the long-awaited documentary film was released with the last rehearsals of the late Michael Jackson.
This is it! achieves No. 1 at the American box office with a collection of 21 million dollars but it is quite far from the forecasts that the Sony company had put in it, which placed it with more than 30 million in its first weekend.
The second place, with 16,5 million, is for the sleeper of the year and of the decade in the US market. The horror movie Paranormal Activity It has already raised 84,7 million dollars and it only cost about 15.000 dollars to do it.
The third place is for the Law Abiding Citizen movie, with Gerard Butler and Jaime Fox, for which no one gave a penny, and has already raised $ 51,3 million.
Fourth place is for SAW 6, which does not achieve the success of its predecessor films, but already accumulates 22 million and is already giving benefits because the films of the SAW saga are low-budget films that do not cost even 20 million dollars.
In fifth place is the choral comedy Couples Retreat that accumulates 86 million so we can say that it has been a success in the USA but it will be necessary to see how it behaves in the rest of the world.
The sixth place is for production Where the monsters live, a children's overproduction of 100 million dollars, which accumulates 61 million so it will hardly be able to recover its investment in the USA. And, everything says, that outside the USA it will not be very successful.
The animated production that is being a success in the USA, is Rain of Meatballs that already accumulates 118 million dollars in the seventh position of the box office.
And, the fiasco of the billboard animation, is the film adaptation of Astroboy That only 10,8 million and cost more than 60. One of the big hits at the box office of the year.
The last places in the table are occupied The Stepfather y Amelia. The latter still with few copies, so it will gradually rise among the highest grossing companies if its number of copies increases.