Three new releases, including Paranormal Activity 2 and Life As We Know It, made the top ten, and the aforementioned entered at number one and two respectively, pushing Eat Pray Love down to fourth place (although still making a healthy $1.23million).

Although Aussie fare Road Train and Summer Coda don’t have the screens to warrant big takings, The Girl Who Played With Fire re-entered the top ten in its fifth week of release, but the surprise was perhaps Les Miserables 25th Anniversary placing sixth with $338,000. Upcoming releases Saw VII 3D, RED and The Social Network should enter strongly.

Weekend Box Office 21-24/10/2010
# Film Title, Distributor, Box Office

1 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2, PARAMOUNT,  $2,665,028
2 LIFE AS WE KNOW IT, ROADSHOW, $1,934,444
3 THE TOWN, WARNER BROS, $1,488,628
4 EAT PRAY LOVE, SONY PICTURES,  $1,230,217
5 RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE, SONY PICTURES, $814,209
6 LES MISERABLES 25TH ANNIVERSARY, RIALTO/FILMWAYS, $338,239
7 DESPICABLE ME, UNIVERSAL, $301,093
8 LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS, ROADSHOW,  $211,755
9 LET ME IN, ICON,  $198,901
10 THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, RIALTO, $181,253

Data supplied by the MPDAA.

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