Weekend Box Office Estimates for September 13-15, 2013: "Insidious Chapter 2" Dominates

Insidious Chapter 2 easily won the weekend box office race, with a $40 million plus take. The Patrick Wilson/Rose Byrne frightfest did not have much competition, as the only other new film in wide release, The Family, a black comedy starring Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer, only managed to pull in $14.5 million. Third place belongs to Riddick with $7.0 million, but that represents a 60% drop from last weekend and the film looks to be fading fast. Two strong holdovers, Lee Daniels' The Butler and We're the Millers, rounded out the top five, earning $5.6 and $5.4 million, respectively. When the final weekend box office totals are released, those film may switch places.

Here are the Top Ten Weekend films (numbers are in millions):

1. Insidious Chapter 2 - $41.1 (FilmDistrict)

2. The Family - $14.5 (Relativity Media)

3. Riddick - $7.0 (Universal)

4. Lee Daniels' The Butler - $5.6 (Weinstein Company)

5. We're the Millers - $5.4 (Warner Bros./New Line)

6. Instructions Not Included - $4.3 (Lionsgate/Pantelion)

7. Planes - $3.1 (Disney)

8. One Direction: This Is Us - $2.4 (Sony/TriStar)

9. Elysium - $2.1 (Sony/Tristar)

10. Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters - $1.8 (Fox)