Here are the best selling movies of the week. The fright film “The Messengers,” about a city family that moves into a creepy haunted house in the country, debuted as the top weekend movie with $14.5 million in ticket sales.
It was a quiet weekend at theaters as many fans were preoccupied with Sunday’s Super Bowl. It was the seventh straight year that Sony had the No. 1 movie on Super Bowl weekend.
Estimated ticket sales are in millions of dollars, for Friday through Sunday at North American theaters. %% MOVIE TICKET SALES
The Messengers $14.5
Because I Said So $13
Epic Movie $8.2
Night at the Museum $6.75
Smokin’ Aces $6.3
Stomp the Yard $4.2
Dreamgirls $4
Pan’s Labyrinth $3.7
The Pursuit of Happyness $3.1
The Queen $2.7
Estimated sales according to Media By Numbers LLC. Source: AP %%
