Top 10 Grossing Movies today in Canada and the United States. Figures are given in United States dollars (USD) and are shown based on total receipts or tickets sold.
1. The Last Exorcism
| Gross Today: | $9,400,000 |
| Gross Total: | $9,400,000 |
| Release Date: | August 27th, 2010 |
| Starring: | Patrick Fabian, Ashley Bell, Iris Bahr, Louis Herthum, Caleb Landry Jones |
| Genre: | Horror, Thriller |
| Description: | |
When he arrives on the rural Louisiana farm of Louis Sweetzer, the Reverend Cotton Marcus expects to perform just another routine “exorcism” on a disturbed religious fanatic. An earnest fundamentalist, Sweetzer has contacted the charismatic preacher as a last resort, certain his teenage daughter Nell is possessed by a demon who must be exorcized before their terrifying ordeal ends in unimaginable tragedy.
Buckling under the weight of his conscience after years of parting desperate believers with their money, Cotton and his crew plan to film a confessionary documentary of this, his last exorcism. But upon arriving at the already blood drenched family farm, it is soon clear that nothing could have prepared him for the true evil he encounters there. Now, too late to turn back, Reverend Marcus’ own beliefs are shaken to the core when he and his crew must find a way to save Nell – and themselves – before it is too late
2. Takers
| Gross Today: | $7,500,000 |
| Gross Total: | $7,500,000 |
| Release Date: | August 27th, 2010 |
| Starring: | Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen, Matt Dillon, Michael Ealy, Idris Elba |
| Genre: | Crime, Thriller |
| Description: | |
Takers takes you into the world of a notorious group of criminals (Idris Elba, Paul Walker, T.I., Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen and Michael Ealy) who continue to baffle police by pulling off perfectly executed bank robberies. They are in and out like clockwork, leaving no evidence behind and laying low between heists. But when they attempt to pull off one last job with more money at stake than ever before, the crew may find their plans interrupted by a hardened detective (Matt Dillon) who is hell-bent on solving the case.
3. The Expendables
| Gross Today: | $2,700,000 |
| Gross Total: | $75,200,000 |
| Release Date: | August 13th, 2010 |
| Starring: | Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Eric Roberts |
| Genre: | Action |
| Description: | |
The Expendables is a hard-hitting action/thriller about a group of mercenaries hired to infiltrate a South American country and overthrow its ruthless dictator. Once the mission begins, the men realize things arent quite as they appear, finding themselves caught in a dangerous web of deceit and betrayal. With their mission thwarted and an innocent life in danger, the men struggle with an even tougher challenge one that threatens to destroy this band of brothers.
4. Eat, Pray, Love
| Gross Today: | $2,100,000 |
| Gross Total: | $55,800,000 |
| Release Date: | August 13th, 2010 |
| Starring: | Julia Roberts, I. Gusti Ayu Puspawati, Hadi Subiyanto, Billy Crudup, Viola Davis |
| Genre: | Comedy, Drama |
| Description: | |
While trying to get pregnant, a happily married woman realizes her life needs to go in a different direction, and after a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey. Based on the memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert.
5. The Other Guys
| Gross Today: | $1,900,000 |
| Gross Total: | $94,600,000 |
| Release Date: | August 6th, 2010 |
| Starring: | Derek Jeter, Samuel L. Jackson, Dwayne Johnson, Larnell Stovall, Jalil Jay Lynch |
| Genre: | Action, Comedy |
| Description: | |
NYPD Detectives Christopher Danson and P.K. are the baddest and most beloved cops in New York City. They don’t get tattoos – other men get tattoos of them. Two desks over and one back, sit Detectives Allen Gamble and Terry Hoitz. You’ve seen them in the background of photos of Danson and Highsmith, out of focus and eyes closed. They’re not heroes – they’re the Other Guys. But every cop has his or her day and soon Gamble and Hoitz stumble into a seemingly innocuous case no other detective wants to touch that could turn into New York City’s biggest crime. It’s the opportunity of their lives, but do these guys have the right stuff?
6. Vampires Suck
| Gross Today: | $1,700,000 |
| Gross Total: | $24,300,000 |
| Release Date: | August 18th, 2010 |
| Starring: | Ken Jeong, Matt Lanter, Anneliese van der Pol, Charlie Weber, Chris Riggi |
| Genre: | Comedy, Horror |
| Description: | |
A spoof of vampire-themed movies, where teenager Becca finds herself torn between two boys. As she and her friends wrestle with a number of different dramas, everything comes to a head at their prom.
7. Inception
| Gross Today: | $1,600,000 |
| Gross Total: | $267,200,000 |
| Release Date: | July 16th, 2010 |
| Starring: | Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe |
| Genre: | Action, Sci-Fi |
| Description: | |
Acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan directs an international cast in an original sci-fi actioner that travels around the globe and into the intimate and infinite world of dreams. Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobbs rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved. Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption. One last job could give him his life back but only if he can accomplish the impossibleinception. Instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team of specialists have to pull off the reverse: their task is not to steal an idea but to plant one. If they succeed, it could be the perfect crime. But no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare the team for the dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move. An enemy that only Cobb could have seen coming. This summer, your mind is the scene of the crime.
8. The Switch
| Gross Today: | $1,500,000 |
| Gross Total: | $13,300,000 |
| Release Date: | August 20th, 2010 |
| Starring: | Jason Bateman, Victor Pagan, Jennifer Aniston, Jeff Goldblum, Juliette Lewis |
| Genre: | Comedy |
| Description: | |
Based on a short story by Middlesex author Jeffrey Eugenides, the comedy centers on a 40-year-old unmarried woman who decides to become pregnant by inseminating herself using a turkey baster and sperm from a married friend.
9. Nanny McPhee Returns
| Gross Today: | $1,300,000 |
| Gross Total: | $13,600,000 |
| Release Date: | August 20th, 2010 |
| Starring: | Maggie Gyllenhaal, Oscar Steer, Asa Butterfield, Lil Woods, Eros Vlahos |
| Genre: | Adventure, Comedy, Children, Family, Fantasy |
| Description: | |
In Nanny McPhee Returns, Oscar®-winning actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson returns to the role of the magical nanny who appears when she’s needed the most and wanted the least in the next chapter of the hilarious and heartwarming fable that has enchanted children around the world.
In the latest installment, Nanny McPhee appears at the door of a harried young mother, Mrs. Isabel Green (Maggie Gyllenhaal), who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war. But once she’s arrived, Nanny McPhee discovers that Mrs. Green’s children are fighting a war of their own against two spoiled city cousins who have just moved in and refuse to leave.
Relying on everything from a flying motorcycle and a statue that comes to life to a tree-climbing piglet and a baby elephant who turns up in the oddest places, Nanny McPhee uses her magic to teach her mischievous charges five new lessons.
10. Avatar
| Gross Today: | $1,200,000 |
| Gross Total: | $1,200,000 |
| Release Date: | December 18th, 2009 |
| Starring: | Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Joel Moore |
| Genre: | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller |
| Description: | |
In the future, Jake, a paraplegic war veteran is brought to another planet, Pandora, which is inhabited by the Na’vi, a humanoid race with their own language and culture. Those from Earth find themselves at odds with each other and the local culture.
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