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It took three weeks, but Argo finally found its way to the top of the box office.

The Warner Bros. thriller from director and star Ben Affleck, inspired by the real-life rescue of six U.S. embassy workers during the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, made nearly $12.4 million this weekend, according to Sunday studio estimates. Argo had been in second place the past two weeks and has now made about $60.8 million total.

This Wk Last Wk Title Distributor Weekend Gross Cumulative Gross Wks Out # of Theaters
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1 2 Argo Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution $12,355,000 $60,780,000 3 2855
2 4 Hotel Transylvania Sony Pictures Releasing $9,500,000 $130,434,000 5 3276
3 Cloud Atlas Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution $9,400,000 $9,400,000 1 2008
4 1 Paranormal Activity 4 Paramount Pictures $8,675,000 $42,632,000 2 3412
5 Silent Hill: Revelation 3D Open Road Films $8,000,000 $8,000,000 1 2933
6 3 Taken 2 20th Century Fox Distribution $8,000,000 $117,389,000 4 2995
7 7 Here Comes the Boom Sony Pictures Releasing $5,500,000 $30,610,000 3 2491
8 6 Sinister Summit Entertainment, LLC $5,070,000 $39,515,000 3 2347
9 5 Alex Cross Summit Entertainment, LLC $5,050,000 $19,368,700 2 2541
10 Fun Size Paramount Pictures & Nickelodeon Movies $4,060,000 $4,060,000 1 3014
11 8 Pitch Perfect Universal Pictures $3,978,010 $51,330,200 5 1999
12 9 Frankenweenie Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures $2,412,000 $31,754,000 4 1738
13 Chasing Mavericks 20th Century Fox Distribution $2,200,000 $2,200,000 1 2002
14 10 Looper TriStar Pictures & Columbia Pictures & FilmDistrict & Sony Pictures Releasing $2,100,000 $61,500,000 5 1189
15 11 Seven Psychopaths CBS Films $1,465,000 $11,926,500 3 1003
16 12 The Perks of Being a Wallflower Lionsgate & Summit Entertainment, LLC $1,400,000 $11,207,700 6 736
17 16 The Master The Weinstein Company $269,000 $15,219,400 7 201
18 27 The Sessions Fox Searchlight Pictures $230,723 $390,366 2 20
19 29 ParaNorman Focus Features $227,522 $54,917,100 11 280
20 22 Searching for Sugar Man Sony Pictures Classics $159,022 $2,213,930 14 114
21 25 The Bourne Legacy Universal Pictures $132,745 $113,003,000 12 191
22 The Other Son The Cohen Media Group $115,000 $115,000 1 35
23 42 The Expendables 2 Lionsgate $105,000 $84,697,500 11 178
24 15 Atlas Shrugged: Part II — The Strike Atlas Distribution Company & Rocky Mountain Pictures $86,000 $3,200,000 3 147
25 44 Smashed Sony Pictures Classics $44,436 $149,949 3 21
26 41 The Untouchables The Weinstein Company $35,000 $12,883,000 23 48
27 Middle of Nowhere AFFRM & Participant Media $30,134 $166,935 1 24
28 58 Brooklyn Castle Producers Distribution Agency $30,093 $53,965 1 8
29 34 Lawless The Weinstein Company $29,000 $37,338,100 9 96
30 39 The Possession Lionsgate $28,000 $48,874,500 9 82

Dan Fellman, head of distribution at Warner Bros., said the studio thought there might be a good chance of Argo coming out on top this weekend.

“We’re thrilled. An accomplishment like that is well deserved, they don’t happen very often. You would probably have to do a lot of searching to find a movie that opened in wide release to have two No. 2 weekends in a row and hit No. 1 in the third week,” Fellman said. “It’s a tribute to the film. Word-of-mouth has taken over the campaign. We have a long way to go, we have a lot of year-end accolades which will approach, and we’ll see what happens in terms of the Academy.”

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