After three weeks sitting on top of the domestic box office chart, Universal’s “Riddick” has finally usurped #1 honors from “Lee Daniels’ The Butler.” The sci-fi threequel from Vin Diesel and director David Twohy brought in an estimated $18.7 million this past weekend.
The full list of results are below:
Riddick – Universal – $18.7M
Lee Daniels’ The Butler – The Weinstein Company – $8.9M
Instructions Not Included – Lionsgate – $8.1M
We’re The Millers – Warner Bros. – $7.9M
Planes – Disney – $4.3M
One Direction: This Is Us – Sony – $4.1M
Elysium – Sony – $3.1M
Blue Jasmine – Sony Pictures Classics – $2.7M
Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters – 20th Century Fox – $2.5M
The World’s End – Focus Features – $2.3M