'Gravity' Stays in Orbit as No. 1 at Box Office

By City News Service

"Gravity" is on fire, with the Sandra Bullock astronaut movie achieving out of this earth reviews and taking its third orbit as the top-ranked film in North America.

The movie, from Warner Bros., is on trajectory to take in $31 million this weekend, for a three-week domestic gross of $170.6 million.

Attendance for "Captain Phillips," another adult-oriented drama, dropped only 33 percent this week, according to Hollywood.com Box Office. The Tom Hanks vehicle clung to second place with a $17.3 million weekend and $53.3 million over two weeks.

A "re-imaging" of the classic horror movie "Carrie" -- also called "Carrie" -- opened in third place with $17 million in receipts.

Rounding out the 10 most-popular films in the United States and Canada, as estimated by the studios, were "Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2" ($10.1 million), "Escape Plan" (opening at $9.8 million), "Prisoners" ($2 million), "Enough Said" ($1.8 million), "The Fifth Estate" (opening at $1.7 million), "Runner, Runner" ($1.6 million) and "Insidious: Chapter 2" ($1.5 million).