The heist thriller kicks off the weekend with over $8 million.By Mawuse Ziegbe
Slaine, Ben Affleck, Jeremy Renner and Owen Burke in "The Town"
Photo: Warner Bros.
The Box-Office Top Five
#1 "The Town" ($8.4 million)
#2 "Easy A" ($6.8 million)
#3 "Devil" ($4.9 million)
#4 "Resident Evil: Afterlife" ($3 million)
#5 "Alpha and Omega" ($2.3 million)
Ben Affleck's bank-robbing thriller "The Town" grabbed the box-office crown Friday night. The film, which takes audiences to the smash-and-grab underworld of director and star Affleck's hometown of Boston, and features Blake Lively, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner and Rebecca Hall, topped the end-of-the-work-week box office with an estimated $8.4 million.
In second place is the high-school teen comedy "Easy A," which features young stars Emma Stone, Amanda Bynes and Penn Badgley, who joins his "Gossip Girl" castmember and off-screen love interest, Lively, in the box-office top five. The flick, about a teen girl who stumbles upon a lucrative hustle faking sex with wannabe schoolyard Lotharios, rang up $6.8 million in ticket sales during its debut Friday on screens.
The mind-bending thriller "Devil," which features the creative touch of filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan, opened in third place. Featuring actors such as Geoffrey Arend and Bokeem Woodbine grappling with an elevator ride that may literally be from hell, the horror pic pulled in an estimated $4.9 million.
After owning last week's box office, the zombie-ridden action flick "Resident Evil: Afterlife," dropped to fourth place. Milla Jovovich's latest clash with the undead claimed $3 million at the Friday box office, nudging the total cume of the sci-fi franchise's hit to nearly $37 million.
Rounding out the top five is the kid-friendly adventure "Alpha and Omega," which features voice-over contributions from stars like Christina Ricci, Danny Glover and the late screen legend Dennis Hopper. The animated flick, which revolves around two wolves (voiced by Justin Long and Hayden Panettiere) with very different personalities journeying back toward their natural habitat, opened with $2.3 million.
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