As many expected, the power of Jackass won out over the weekend, with Bad Grandpa taking the top spot with $32 million. Although that’s around $20 million less than the opening of Jackass 3-D, the film cost little to make and will prove very profitable.
However there was less cheer for Ridley Scott’s The Counselor, which despite a starry cast and a script by Cormac McCarthy, only placed fourth on the chart with $8.0. Indeed it may have been the problem that the promotion so heavily sold the stars – such as Michael Fassbender, Cameron Diaz and Brad Pitt – that they forgot to tell anyone what the movie was actually about. Bad reviews certainly didn’t help.
While those were the only new openers in the top 10, 12 Years A Slave made its first appeared after expanding onto 123 screens (after just 19 last week), taking $2.1 million to place eighth. It suggest the movie will stay strong as in goes into more cinemas over the coming weeks.
Take a look below for the US box office top 10 for the weekend of October 25th-27th.
| Rank | Title | Weekend Gross (millions) | Total Gross to date (millions) |
| 1 | Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa | $32.0 | $32.0 |
| 2 | Gravity | $20.3 | $199.8 |
| 3 | Captain Phillips | $11.8 | $70.0 |
| 4 | The Counselor | $8.0 | $8.0 |
| 5 | Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 | $6.1 | $100.6 |
| 6 | Carrie | $5.9 | $26.0 |
| 7 | Escape Plan | $4.3 | $17.4 |
| 8 | 12 Years A Slave | $2.1 | $3.4 |
| 9 | Enough Said | $1.5 | $13.0 |
| 10 | Prisoners | $1.0 | $59.1 |
Gravity has continued its impressive box office run, topping the US box office for a third week with $31 million, once more dropping less than 30% from the previous weekend (most films fall around 40-60% each week). It’s made $170 million in North America so far and is expected to gross another $100 million before the end of its run.
While some weren’t sure whether Gravity’s incredible visuals would translate into box office success, the film is now a bona fide hit, taking $44 million in its second weekend to top the box office once more. That’s just a 20% drops, which is incredibly unusual for a film that took over $50 million in its first outing (indeed it’s the best hold ever for such a film outside the holidays).
Yesterday 
Last week Warner Bros really ramped up the promotion of Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity with a trio of single-shot trailers that showed off the director’s attempt to tell the tale with as few cuts as possible (see them