LOS ANGELES, Feb. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rentrak Corporation , today announced the weekend theatrical box office numbers for the weekend period of February 19 through February 21, 2010 according to the company's Box Office Essentials(TM) theatrical box office data collection and analytical service.
The twelve estimated top producing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday February 21, 2010 include:
Weekend Rank Title Distributor Gross Cume Locations -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Shutter Island Paramount $40,200,000 $40,200,000 2991 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 Valentine's Day Warner Bros. $17,160,000 $87,422,086 3665 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 Avatar 20th Century Fox $16,100,000 $687,821,154 2581 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 Percy Jackson & The Olympians: Lightning 20th Century Fox $15,300,000 $58,760,392 3396 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 The Wolfman Universal $9,846,265 $50,314,890 3223 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 Dear John Sony $7,300,000 $65,971,213 3062 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 Tooth Fairy 20th Century Fox $4,500,000 $49,867,120 2523 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 Crazy Heart Fox Searchlight $3,025,000 $21,585,198 1089 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 From Paris With Love Lionsgate $2,500,000 $21,199,675 2311 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 Edge Of Darkness Warner Bros. $2,210,000 $40,313,911 2118 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 The Book Of Eli Warner Bros. $1,845,000 $90,732,086 1455 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12 When In Rome Disney $1,747,000 $29,354,070 1627 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Weekend of 2/19/10 to 2/21/10
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