George Clooney and Sandra Bullock-starring space thriller Gravity has rocketed to the top of the US box office in its opening weekend, breaking a record in the process.
The film took $55.5 million over the weekend, which represents the best ever October opening in the US.
Gravity follows two astronauts battle for survival after their shuttle is damaged during a mission and has received widespread praise since it debuted.
The thriller knocked off last weekend’s No.1 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, which took another $21.5m bringing its total earnings up to $60.5m.
Prisoners, another former No.1 slipped from two to five meanwhile, while the late James Gandolfini and Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s Enough Said crept into the top 10 in tenth place.
There were two new entries – Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake crime thriller Runner Runner, which entered in third place, and comedy Pulling Strings at No. 9.
The US weekend box office top ten in full:
1 (-) Gravity – $55,550,000
2 (1) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 – $21,500,000
3 (-) Runner Runner – $7,600,000
4 (2) Prisoners – $5,700,000
5 (3) Rush – $4,408,000
6 (5) Don Jon – $4,160,000
7 (4) Baggage Claim – $4,125,000
8 (6) Insidious: Chapter 2 – $3,876,000
9 (-) Pulling Strings – $2,500,000
10 (11) Enough Said – $2,150,000
source: metro UK
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