Your Weekly Horror Sales: Insidious Premiers, While Others Plummit

This week at the Box Office, the top dog in the horror/scifi genre was Insidious! It premiered at #3 and took in almost $17.5 million. While that doesn’t seem like too much, it should be noted that the production budget was $4.5 million. So, Insidious has already more than tripled its cost. Great news for everyone involed! However, while Insidious does extremely well, Sucker Punch, I Am Number Four, The Rite, Red State, I Saw The Devil, and Black Death all fell 5 to 10 spots each. Ouch. Oh well… Rubber premiered too! It’s a real indie film about a killer tire…I’m not joking…

3 Insidious $17,356,000
7 2 Sucker Punch $8,080,000 (Total: $31,871,000)
10 7 Battle: Los Angeles $4,734,000 (Total: $79,700,000)
12 9 Red Riding Hood $2,351,000 (Total: $36,167,000)
16 11 Beastly $1,092,000 (Total: $27,056,000)
27 19 I Am Number Four $281,000 (Total: $53,949,000)
31 26 Black Swan $161,000 (Total: $106,831,000)
46 37 Red State $67,000 (Total: $769,000)
50 44 Harry Potter/Deathly Hallows 1 $57,000 (Total: $295,001,000)
51 45 Narnia/Dawn Treader $48,000 (Total: $104,367,000)
56 42 The Rite $35,000 (Total: $33,047,000)
63 Rubber $25,000
78 56 I Saw The Devil $11,000 (Total: $115,000)
98 88 Black Death $1,000 (Total: $19,000)

Nothing new at the DVD Top 30 chart. Saw 3D: The Final Chapter finally fell off, and Paranormal Activity 2 probably will next week.

14 9 The Walking Dead Season 1 $1,049,000 (Total: $8,648,000)
30 25 Paranormal Activity 2 $355,000 (Total: $13,603,000)

Vampire Diaries came on to some not-as-expected numbers this week. Still, it’s don’t a lot better than a lot of the other CW11 shows. Still kinda sucks that it’s the top horror/scifi show this week…