Taken 2, starring Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen and Maggie Grace, easily won the box office this weekend with a huge $50 million opening. This was more than double the weekend opening for
Taken. Box Office Mojo
reports that this was the third all-time biggest opening in October.
Taken 2 was followed by
Hotel Transylvania, which made $26.3 million during its second week in theaters.
Pitch Perfect finished third and made $14.7 million during its second weekend in theaters.
Looper finished fourth and made $12.2 million.
Tim Burton's
Frankenweenie did not perform well despite strong marketing. It finished fifth and made just $11.5 million. This is also despite great reviews for the film - an
85% score on Rotten Tomatoes.
You can see the complete weekend box office report
here.
Photo: Magali Bragard/20th Century Fox
