In its third weekend of release, Ben Affleck’s period crowd-pleaser “Argo” showed no signs of slowing down at the box office, dropping just 24.9 percent from last weekend for another $12.4m. Even more impressively, “Argo” beat all four new wide releases by a sizable margin. While the impending Hurricane Sandy undoubtedly had a negative effect on the box office as a whole, the openers’ grosses were so bad that the rough weather along the Eastern Seaborg is hardly an excuse. The Wachowskis’ passion project, “Cloud Atlas,” co-directed by Tom Tykwer, fared the best with $9.4m — by no means a great start for a $100m-budgeted movie, but an expected one given that international markets were always the focus. “Silent Hill: Revelation” was next, with $8m — a far cry from the $20.2m opening of its predecessor. But the film seems like a runaway hit compared to Nickelodeon’s “Fun Size” and the surfer pic “Chasing Mavericks,” which each tanked with $4.1m and $2.2m, respectively. Both will have a time cracking $10m in their entire box office runs.
Check out the full top 10 chart below:
| No. | Title | Weekend | Per Theater Average | Total |
| 1 | “Argo” | $12.4M | $4,327 | $60.8M |
| 2 | “Hotel Transylvania” | $9.5M | $2,900 | $130.4M |
| 3 | “Cloud Atlas” | $9.4M | $4,681 | $9.4M |
| 4 | “Paranormal Activity 4” | $8.7M | $2,542 | $42.6M |
| 5 | “Taken 2” | $8.0M | $2,671 | $117.4M |
| 6 | “Silent Hill: Revelation” | $8.0M | $2,728 | $8.0M |
| 7 | “Here Comes the Boom” | $5.5M | $2,208 | $30.6M |
| 8 | “Sinister” | $5.1M | $2,160 | $39.5M |
| 9 | “Alex Cross” | $5.1M | $1,987 | $19.4M |
| 10 | “Fun Size” | $4.1M | $1,347 | $4.1M |
Source: Box Office Mojo
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