'Taken 2' Tops Worldwide Weekend Box Office Takings

By Newsroom America Staff at 8 Oct 2012

Box office measurement company Rentrak Corporation says Taken 2 topped the worldwide weekend box office estimates for the weekend of October 7.

Rentrak provides intelligence into overnight theatre-level reporting across the global theatrical market. Coupled with the official reported data, studios are able to analyze admissions and gross results in over 50 territories using Rentrak's suite of products.

Taken 2 opens at No. 1 worldwide with an estimated weekend gross of $105 million in 51 territories.

The top-12 U.S. weekend box office estimates listed in descending order, per data collected as of Sunday, October 7, 2012 are below.

Taken 2 - 20th Century Fox - $50.0M Hotel Transylvania - Sony - $26.3M Pitch Perfect - Universal - $14.7M Looper - Sony - $12.2M Frankenweenie - Disney - $11.5M End Of Watch - Open Road - $4.0M Trouble with the Curve - Warner Bros. - $3.9M House At The End Of The Street - Relativity Media - $3.7M Master, The - The Weinstein Company - $1.8M Finding Nemo - Disney - $1.6M Perks Of Being A Wallflower, The - Lionsgate - $1.5M Resident Evil: Retribution - Sony - $1.1M