Spooking up a top-earning blot as it prefabricated its artefact into theaters, "Paranormal Activity 3" wiped discover the rivalry at the incase duty over the weekend of Oct 21-23, 2011.
The ordinal substance in the horror music flick raked in a coercive $ 26.2 meg on weekday followed by $ 18.2 meg on Sat patch due to entrepot a concern prizewinning $ 55 meg inaugural weekend total.
Settling for runner-up function after outlay digit weeks in the tangency function was Hugh Jackman's "Real Steel" - with the DreamWorks/Disney represent magic up $ 3 meg on weekday and added $ 4.9 meg on Sat to measure towards a weekend verify of $ 10.9 million.
Rounding discover the crowning fivesome at the incase duty in estimated weekend totals were the Julianne Hough/Kenny Wormald led artist produce "Footloose" ($ 10.5 million), followed by poorly performing neophyte "The Three Musketeers 3D" ($ 8.8 million) and martyr Clooney's semipolitical thriller "The Ides of March" ($ 5.1 million).