For a third consecutive week, the 3D sci-fi thriller "Gravity" is the top movie at the box-office. The Sandra Bullock starring space adventure is enjoying a steady evolution and with this weekend's $31 million gross, the film has now reached an amazing total of $238 million worldwide in just 17 days.
Furthermore, "Gravity" defeated three new wide releases this week - the "Carrie" remake, the Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger team up "Escape Plan", and the WikiLeaks biopic "The Fifth Estate. The three wide releases were also topped by last week's Tom Hanks thriller "Captain Phillips" which also held strong in second place with $17 million and a worldwide total gross of $62 million.
"Carrie", a reimagining of the Stephen King novel of the same name and a remake of the 1976 Brian De Palma movie, grossed $17 million and opened in third place, despite somewhat higher expectations. The film stars Chloe Grace Moretz ("Kick-Ass") and Julianne Moore and has been receiving mixed reviews from critics, but some fairly positive reactions from audiences. Even though the box-office results are poor at the moment, "Carrie" still has a strong chance to break out during the Halloween week.
The Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone team up yielded less-than-stellar results, as their prison break movie "Escape Plan" only managed to gross $9.8 million in the US, opening in fifth place, and an additional $14 million overseas. Both Schwarzenegger's and Stallone's recent solo efforts have been disappointing, as the former's "The Last Stand" opened with $6.2 million in January and the latter's "Bullet to the Head" tanked with $4.5 million in its debut weekend in February. "Escape Plan" cost $50 million to make.
Even more disappointing, however, is the controversial WikiLeaks biopic "The Fifth Estate" which stars Benedict Cumberbatch ("Star Trek Into Darkness") as Julian Assange. The film opened in eight place and only grossed $1.7 million. Julian Assange himself dismissed the film as manipulative and anti-WikiLeaks and foretold the box-office disaster by saying that the biopic doesn't deliver the kind of underdog story that audiences expect. Indeed, even the critical response was underwhelming as "The Fifth Estate" is currently rated 39% on Rotten Tomatoes.
More box-office details and the complete top 10, after the jump.
