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Fourth spot goes to Easy A, last weekend's number two film. Easy A, like The Town, parlayed good reviews into good word-of-mouth, and it sees an okay hold this weekend. The $8 million Screen Gems release earned another $10.7 million this weekend, down 40%. So far, the Emma Stone flick has earned a powerful $32.8 million, and looks to earn more than seven times its production budget.

Opening in fifth is You Again, another Kristen Bell comedy that is more When in Rome than Forgetting Sarah Marshall. You Again took in $8.3 million, coming in around the low side of what tracking was indicating. This is cheap filler from Disney, as the production cost was $20 million. Critics caught on, and the film earned a 13% fresh rating at RottenTomatoes. Maybe Bell should fund a Veronica Mars project.

Devil lands in 6(66)th and actually has a slightly better hold than expected. The Universal flick opened last weekend to $12.3 million, and this weekend dropped 47% to $6.5 million. The M Knight Shyamalan flick has been received by a collective "meh" from moviegoers, and looks like it will quietly slip away. Give a domestic total of $21.7 million so far.

Resident Evil: Afterlife joins the party in seventh this weekend. The Milla Jovavich sequel earned $4.9 million and dropped 51% from the previous frame, where it fell 63% from its debut. The $60 million Afterlife has now earned $52 million domestically, but has already brought in more than $100 million overseas.

Alpha and Omega, the little-seen 3D animated pic from Lionsgate, gets dropped on its head with the debut of The Owls of Ga'Hoole. Alpha earned $4.7 million and dropped 48%. It has a total so far of $15.1 million.

Ninth goes to Takers, which manages to hold onto a top ten spot. Now in its fifth weekend, Takers earned $1.6 million and dropped 45%. The total for the $32 million Screen Gems effort has now reached $54.9 million.

Inception holds onto a top ten spot for yet another weekend, as it takes advantage of weak competition to pull in $1.2 million. It's been in theaters for 11 weeks now, and has a running total of $287.7 million domestically, and is approaching $475 million internationally. Holy Batman, Chris Nolan!

Overall, the box office had a fairly healthy frame in comparison to last weekend and the result from the same weekend last year. A year ago, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs was on top for the second straight weekend, as Surrogates with Bruce Willis and Fame flopped. That top 12 brought in about $83 million. This year, the box office was stronger, with the top 12 taking in $91.2 million. Next weekend should be another interesting frame, as Oscar hopeful The Social Network opens, along with Let Me In, the American remake of Let The Right One In. Currently, both films have 100% fresh ratings at RottenTomatoes.

Top Weekend Box Office for 9/24/10-9/26/10 (Actuals)
Rank	Film	Distributor	Estimated Gross	Actual Gross	Weekly Change	Running Total
1	Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps	Fox	$19,000,000	$19,011,188	New	$19,011,188
2	Legend of the Guardians: the Owls of Ga'hoole	WARNER BROS.	$16,335,000	$16,112,211	New	$16,112,211
3	The Town	Warner Bros. Pictures	$16,000,000	$15,605,171	- 2.5%	$48,692,072
4	Easy A	SONY	$10,700,000	$10,600,497	New	$32,714,215
5	You Again	Walt Disney Pictures	$8,300,000	$8,407,513	+ 1.3%	$8,407,513
6	Devil	Universal	$6,479,335	$6,605,960	+ 2.0%	$21,859,425
7	Resident Evil: Afterlife	Screen Gems (Sony)	$4,900,000	$4,954,791	+ 1.1%	$52,073,588
8	Alpha & Omega	Lionsgate	$4,700,000	$4,735,271	New	$15,164,944
9	Takers	Screen Gems (Sony)	$1,650,000	$1,622,302	- 1.7%	$54,885,175
10	Inception	Warner Bros. Pictures	$1,245,000	$1,247,006	+ 0.2%	$287,053,292
11	The Other Guys	Columbia Pictures (Sony)	$1,000,000	$992,812	- 0.7%	$116,966,981
12	The American	Focus Features	$889,084	$896,382	New	$34,607,381
	Also Opening/Notables
	The Virginity Hit	SONY	$300,000	$301,885	New	$332,463
	You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger	Sony Classics	$163,474	$163,474	New	$214,815
	Waiting For 'superman'	Paramount Vantage	$140,000	$139,033	New	$139,033
	Buried	Lionsgate	$104,500	$100,268	- 4.0%	$100,268
	Like Dandelion Dust	Blue Collar Releasing	N/A	$77,960	New	$77,960
	Howl	Oscilloscope	$54,010	$51,185	New	$51,185
	Enter the Void	IFC Films	$40,000	$40,000	New	$40,000
	A Mother's Courage	First Run Features	N/A	$822	New	$822
	Catfish	Universal	$470,478	$452,580	New	$811,280
	Never Let Me Go	Fox Searchlight	$245,000	$241,943	- 1.2%	$438,535
	Jack Goes Boating	Overture Films	$86,000	$78,947	- 8.2%	$120,559
	Leaves of Grass	First Look	$18,048	$15,009	New	$41,516
	Bran Nue Dae	Freestyle	$36,520	$29,672	New	$88,854
	Machete	Fox	$645,000	$642,832	New	$25,733,677
	Eat Pray Love	Sony/Columbia	$700,000	$704,613	+ 0.7%	$79,040,308
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Box office data supplied by Exhibitor Relations

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