Milla Jovovich and Resident Evil: Afterlife couldn’t topple Eat Pray Love, which held on to top spot on its second week – although not comfortably, with heist film The Town hot on its heels ($2.16 and $2.03m respectively). Let The Right One In remake Let Me In fared well on just 150 screens nationwide, and Tomorrow When The War Began re-entered the top 10.

A big number of releases this week may perhaps see Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole slip to make way for Life As We Know It or Paranormal Activity 2. Aussie films Summer Coda and SA-made Road Train are limited releases.

Australian Box Office: Weekend Ending 17-Oct-10

# Film Title, Distributor, Box Office
(Titles in yellow indicate new release)

1 EAT PRAY LOVE,  SONY PICTURES, $2,167,897
2 THE TOWN, WARNER BROS, $2,038,210
3 RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE, SONY PICTURES, $1,879,354
4 DESPICABLE ME, UNIVERSAL, $537,097
5 LET ME IN, ICON, $411,101
6 DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS, PARAMOUNT, $400,920
7 LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE, ROADSHOW, $375,206
8 WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS, FOX, $366,196
9 TOMORROW, WHEN THE WAR BEGAN, PARAMOUNT, $282,628
10 EASY A, SONY PICTURES, $266,279

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