Box office report for Sept. 6, 2011: “The Help” tops charts for third straight week over Labor Day weekend
“The Help” continues to help itself to the top spot at the box office, according to the Associated Press.
The adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s best-selling novel earned $19.9 million over the Labor Day weekend, coming in at No. 1 on the domestic box office charts for the third straight week.
The film, about black maids struggling through the still-segregated 1960s, has taken in a total of $124 million domestically, according to the AP.
The espionage thriller “The Debt” came in at No. 2, after taking $14.8 million since opening last Wednesday. Interestingly, both films star Jessica Chastain in two very different roles.
Here is the list of the top 10 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Monday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, from the AP:
1. “The Help,” Disney, $19,881,571, 2,843 locations, $6,993 average, $124,272,124, four weeks.
2. “The Debt,” Focus, $12,851,600, 1,826 locations, $7,038 average, $14,753,014, one week.
3. “Apollo 18,” Weinstein Co., $10,705,556, 3,328 locations, $3,217 average, $10,705,556, one week.
4. “Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” Fox, $10,325,485, 3,193 locations, $3,234 average, $162,550,178, five weeks.
5. “Shark Night,” Relativity Media, $10,126,458, 2,806 locations, $3,609 average, $10,126,458, one week.
6. “Colombiana,” Sony/Tristar, $9,570,213, 2,614 locations, $3,661 average, $24,132,335, two weeks.
7. “Our Idiot Brother,” Weinstein Co., $7,038,249, 2,555 locations, $2,755 average, $17,273,593, two weeks.
8. “Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World,” Weinstein Co., $6,801,885, 3,007 locations, $2,262 average, $31,201,190, three weeks.
9. “Don’t be Afraid of the Dark,” Film District, $6,382,227, 2,780 locations, $2,296 average, $17,882,416, two weeks.
10. “The Smurfs,” Sony Animation/Columbia, $5,724,093, 2,706 locations, $2,115 average, $133,676,705, six weeks.
-BAM
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