- Hotel Transylvania - $22.5m
- Looper - $20.8m
- End Of Watch - $7.6m
- Trouble With The Curve - $7.2m
- Won't Back Down - $6.5m
- House At The End Of The Street - $5.7m
- Finding Nemo 3D - $4.3m
- Resident Evil: Retribution - $3.1m
- Dredd - $2.9m
- The Master - $2.8m
Hotel Transylvania comes sandwiched between two pieces of competition: Finding Nemo 3D and Frankenweenie. While families may be desiring a new animated film to take the kids to, there's not very much buzz elsewhere for the animated monster mash. This is also a bit surprising, since director Gennedy Tartakovsky has plenty of goodwill from the awesome TV shows, Dexter's Laboratory & Samurai Jack. Expect this to be number one, albeit barely so.
Looper, as an R-rated sci-fi film during September, may seem very niche. However, it has so much going for it otherwise. The reviews are raves, all the way from its opening night at TIFF, and it'll be riding on the wave of Joseph Gordon Levitt's growing popularity. Also, if TriStar could bring District 9 to be a hit, I wouldn't be surprised if they got some decent numbers out of this one, too.
Won't Back Down...I'm not sure very many people want to see this. The themes of education reform may attract the kind of audience that goes to the movies on Tuesday, but the buzz is pretty much dead, and fall dramas that aren't oscar bait can often get lost in the shuffle. I'm expecting a similar fate for this film.