This weekend was the weakest for the domestic box office in recent memory, with the supernatural horror film “The Possession” topping the chart for a second weekend in a row despite not cracking $10 million. The new openers all tanked — the multi-narrative non-romance “The Words” made just $4.8 million and the Bruce Willis-Henry Cavill thriller “The Cold Light of Day” did even worse with $1.8 million. That’s especially pathetic given that the IMAX re-issue of “Raiders of the Lost Ark” nearly beat it, despite playing in only a sixth as many theaters. Hollywood can only hope that next weekend yields better results with heavy-hitters “Resident Evil: Retribution” and “Finding Nemo 3D.”
Check out the full top 10 chart below…
| No. | Title | Weekend | Per Theater Average | Total |
| 1 | “The Possession” | $9.3M | $3,288 | $33.2M |
| 2 | “Lawless” | $6.0M | $1,914 | $23.5M |
| 3 | “The Expendables 2” | $5.0M | $1,519 | $75.6M |
| 4 | “The Words” | $4.8M | $1,696 | $4.8M |
| 5 | “ParaNorman” | $4.2M | $1,469 | $45.5M |
| 6 | “The Bourne Legacy” | $4.0M | $1,435 | $103.6M |
| 7 | “The Odd Life of Timothy Green” | $3.7M | $1,343 | $43.0M |
| 8 | “The Campaign” | $3.4M | $1,329 | $79.3M |
| 9 | “2016: Obama’s America” | $3.3M | $1,641 | $26.1M |
| 10 | “The Dark Knight Rises” | $3.2M | $1,620 | $437.8M |
Source: Box Office Mojo