'Last Exorcism' Tops Slow Weekend at the Movies

Movie theaters were quiet over the weekend, with ticket sales for the Top 12 films down 11 percent compared with the same period last year. A PG-13 rating and a wide release helped push the horror movie “The Last Exorcism” (Lionsgate) to No. 1 with about $21.3 million in grosses, according to Hollywood.com, which compiles sales data. (Right, Ashley Bell, on bed and Caleb Landry Jones.) “Takers,” a moderately budgeted crime thriller from Sony Pictures Entertainment, was a close second with $21 million. Sylvester Stallone’s “Expendables” (Lionsgate), the No. 1 film for the last two weeks, fell to No. 3 with $9.5 million, bringing its total to $82 million. “Eat Pray Love” (Sony) was fourth with $7 million for a new total of $60.7 million, while “The Other Guys” (Sony), starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, was fifth with $6.6 million, for a total of $99.3 million. A rerelease of “Avatar” (20th Century Fox) with eight minutes of new footage squeezed $4 million more out of that blockbuster to bring its domestic box office total to $753.8 million.

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