Wiki News/Amy Tammie bumps George Clooney to top box office



Following an impressive midnight sales of $2 million from 1,300 theaters, Amy Tammie's Bring It On: No Matter What officially bumped George Clooney's The American as the PG-13 movie takes over the Thursday box office with a strong $15.2m, and is on it's way to $45m for the Laboy Day weekend.

Following a disappointing Wednesday debut, the Anton Corbijn-George Clooney psychological/political thriller/drama The American was down 12.2% at the North American box office on Thursday, Sept. 2, taking in $1.46m according to Box Office Mojo.

All but one among the chart’s top twelve movies were down as well, even though the day-to-day attendance drops weren’t as dramatic as those posted on Wednesday. The sole exception was the Christopher Nolan-Leonardo DiCaprio thriller/sci-fier, which was up a minuscule 1.7%.

Featuring Hayden Christensen, Paul Walker, Matt Dillon, Chris Brown, and Idris Elba, John Luessenhop‘s heist thriller Takers was the no. 3 movie, with $1.18m.

At no. 4, Daniel Stamm‘s mockumentary The Last Exorcism, starring Ashley Bell, brought in $852k.

At no. 5 was the Julia Roberts-Javier Bardem-James Franco romantic drama Eat Pray Love, with $845k, followed by Sylvester Stallone‘s The Expendables with $764k.

At no. 7 was the Will Ferrell-Mark Wahlberg comedy The Other Guys with $531k.

Next in line were Inception with $481k at no. 8 and the Jason Bateman-Jennifer Aniston comedy The Switch with $443k at no. 9.

Rounding out the top twelve were Emma Thompson‘s Nanny McPhee Returns with $419k, Elisabeth Shue‘s Piranha 3D with $400k, Sam Worthington‘s Avatar: Special Edition with $323k, Vampires Suck with $303k.

Here are a few others:

Edgar Wright‘s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World with $241k, Angelina Jolie‘s Salt with $154k, Annette Bening-Julianne Moore-Mark Ruffalo‘s The Kids Are All Right with $58k.

Also, Robert Pattinson-Kristen Stewart-Taylor Lautner‘s The Twilight Saga: Eclipse with $52k, M. Night Shyamalan-Dev Patel-Jackson Rathbone‘s The Last Airbender with $32k, Tom Cruise-Cameron Diaz‘s Knight and Day with $18k.

Among the top twelve movies, The American had the highest per-theater average, a not very impressive $540 — only a notch above Takers‘ $539. Vampires Suck had the lowest, $94.

Also among the top twelve, Inception posted the only Wednesday-to-Thursday increase, the aforementioned +1.7%. The American‘s -12.2% was the highest drop-off rate.