And just like that, a new film has reached the top. The film adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game made $28m in its debut weekend to trump last weekend’s top box office film, Bad Grandpa. The sci-fi/action film starring Harrison Ford and Asa Butterfield faced some controversy over the novel’s author’s political opinions, but that didn’t stop it from making a good return in its first weekend at theaters. With Thor: The Dark World opening this Friday, however, I predict Ender’s Game at the top to be short-lived. This weekend’s two other new releases, Last Vegas and Free Birds, opened at 3rd and 4th, respectively. Keep your eyes on 12 Years a Slave as it spreads wider into more theaters over the next few weeks. Like I’ve said in the past, I predict it’ll get a slow hype build the way The Butler did earlier this year.
You can read the rest of this weekend’s box office numbers below.
1. Ender’s Game – $28,000,000
2. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa – $20,500,000
3. Last Vegas – $16,520,000
4. Free Birds – $16,200,000
5. Gravity – $13,130,000
6. Captain Phillips – $8,500,000
7. 12 Years a Slave – $4,600,000
8. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 – $4,200,000
9. Carrie – $3,400,000
10. The Counselor – $3,250,000
[via Rentrak]