Mid-September Box Office

This is the sleepy season for movie box office. As you can see, Planes constinues its gentle, downward glide-path in the Top Ten.

1. Insidious: Chapter 2 (Blumhouse/FilmDistrict) NEW (Runs 3,049] PG13 Friday $20.1M, Weekend $43.0M

2. The Family (Europecorp/Relativity) NEW [Runs 3,091] R Friday $5.3M, Weekend $15.5M

3. Riddick (Universal) Week 2 [Runs 3,117] R Friday $2.1M (-70%), Weekend $7.3M, Cume $31.6M

4. We’re The Millers (New Line/Warner Bros) Week 6 [Runs 3,238] R Friday $1.7M, Weekend $5.7M, Cume $131.9M

5. Lee Daniels’ The Butler (Weinstein) Week 5 [Runs 3,239] PG13 Friday $1.6M, Weekend $5.7M, Cume $100.2M

6. Instructions Not Included (Pantelion/Lionsgate) Week 3 [Runs 932] PG13 Friday $1.3M, Weekend $6.8M, Cume $29.1M

7. One Direction: This Is Us (Sony) Week 3 [Runs 2,300] PG Friday $825K, Weekend $2.8M, Cume $27.3M

8. Planes (Disney) Week 6 [Runs 2,739] PG Friday $705K, Weekend $3.3M, Cume $83.2M

9. Elysium (Sony) Week 6 [Runs 1,720] R Friday $628K, Weekend $2.2M, Cume $88.5M

10. Blue Jasmine (Sony Classics) Week 8 [Runs 993] Friday $474K, Weekend $1.6M, Cume $27.7M

The rest of the animated posse leaps along in the following order: Despicable Me 2 is at #16 with $357,831,320. The Smurfs 2 is #19 with a domestic total of $68,318,793. Monsters University is at #29 with $265,092,054. And Turbo moves along at #29 with $80,700,526.