The Other Guys and Tomorrow When the War Began fell out of the top ten as Julia Roberts’ first flick in some time Eat Pray Love shot straight to number one with a $3.47 million dollar taking, knocking Despicable Me off its perch after a month and dominating the overall dollars.

New release horror Buried fared well among the kid-friendly films (considering it was still school holidays in some states), but will have fresh competition this coming week with the releases of horror/thrillers Let Me In (the highly-anticipated Let the Right One In remake) and Resident Evil: Afterlife.

Weekend of 7-10 Oct 2010
WIR = Weeks in release

#	FILM	WIR	DIST.	WKND $	TOTAL $
1	EAT PRAY LOVE	1	SONY	3,473,338	3,688,038
2	DESPICABLE ME	5	UNIVERSAL	1,591,707	20,419,581
3	LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE	2	ROADSHOW	954,513	3,499,011
4	DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS	2	PARAMOUNT	726,266	2,300,534
5	WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS	3	FOX	695,504	5,034,472
6	THE LAST AIRBENDER	4	PARAMOUNT	695,350	9,250,528
7	BURIED	1	ICON	664,004	664,004
8	DIARY OF A WIMPY KID	3	FOX	663,827	4,712,823
9	CATS & DOGS 2: THE REVENGE OF KITTY GALORE	4	ROADSHOW	651,043	6,141,622
10	EASY A	5	SONY	507,566	5,062,487

Data supplied by MPDAA

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