Ben Affleck's Town Tops Box Office
The Town
Ben Affleck's new Boston-based bank robber drama, The Town, took the No. 1 spot at the box office over the weekend opening with $23.8 million, according to Box Office Mojo.
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The film, in which Affleck stars and directed, also boasts a cast of Jeremy Renner, Rebecca Hall and Jon Hamm.
Coming in second and third, respectively, were the high-school comedy Easy A ($18.2 million) and M. Night Shyamalan's Devil ($12.6).
The animated Alpha and Omega, which also opened this weekend, came in fifth place with $9.2 million after Resident Evil: Afterlife ($10.1 million).
Rounding out the top 10: Takers (No. 6, $3 million); The American (No. 7, $2.8 million), Inception (No. 8, $2 million); The Other Guys (No. 9, $2 million) and Machete (No. 10, $1.7 million).