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...over the previous one's, and 59% over the same one last year, the top spot went to Where the Wild Things Are, which set an opening-day record for a live-action PG film and, according to early studio reports, will end the session with $32.5 million. The serial-killer thriller Law Abiding Citizen slashed its way to second place, with $21 million, while the haunted-house horror movie Paranormal Activity underlined its phenomenon status by earning $20.2 million on 760 screens - a sensational $26,000 per theater. (See TIME's weekend entertainment recommendations...
...Where the Wild Things Are, $32.5 million, first weekend 2. Law Abiding Citizen, $21 million, first weekend 3. Paranormal Activity, $20.2 million; $33.7 million, fourth week 4. Couples Retreat, $18 million; $63.3 million, second week 5. The Stepfather, $12.3 million, first weekend 6. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, $8.1 million; $108.3 million, fifth week 7. Zombieland, $7.8 million; $60.8 million, third week 8. Toy Story 3-D and Toy Story 2 3-D, $3 million; $28.6 million, third week 9. Surrogates, $1.9 million; $36.3 million, fourth week 10. The Invention of Lying, $1.9 million; $ 15.5 million, third week
...CinemaScore rating) among those under age 25. Its road was paved by the success of another favorite children's book brought to the screen, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, which on the previous four weekends had ranked in the top three spots and on Oct. 15 cracked $100 million at the North American box office. It's an open question whether the Jonze movie can show those steady legs, but for now, Wild Things is making Warner Bros.'s heart sing...
Every director of the top three pictures scored personal bests. Wild Things made 44% more in a weekend than what either of Jonze's previous two features, Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, earned in their entire runs. (Mind you, Wild Things cost a lot more: at least $80 million.) Law Abiding Citizen had the highest per-screen average of any film directed by F. Gary Gray. Oren Peli is a first-time auteur, but since he made Paranormal Activity in 2006 for a laughably low $11,000, he could boast that his movie made back more than twice its budget...
...omnibus entry New York, I Love You, with directorial contributions by Mira Nair, Allen Hughes, Brett Ratner and Natalie Portman, took in a small-town $372,000 in 199 venues. Hopes remain high for two British romances. Bright Star, about poet John Keats' doomed love, has received $3.5 million in contributions from moony English majors; and An Education, with star-is-born Carey Mulligan, crossed the half-million mark at 19 theaters...