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Opening on Friday the 13th, horror sequelscared up an excellent $40.3 million this weekend. Meanwhile, Luc Besson 'shad a decent debut as well.The Top 12 earned $89.5 million this weekend, which is up a whopping 30 percent from the same period last year.'s $40.3 million debut is over three times as high as its predecessor's $13.3 million opening, which is an incredible improvement for a sequel. It's also about on par with director James Wan 's, which opened to $41.9 million in July. This is only the second time ever that a director has had two movies open over $40 million in the same year—the Wachowski siblings did it in 2003 withandThe month of September is typically a slow one at the box office, so's opening ranks second all-time behind last year's($42.5 million). Overall, it ranks fourth among supernatural horror movies—behind Paranormal Activity 3 and—and is distributor FilmDistrict's top debut ever ahead of March's($30.4 million).'s success can be attributed to its excellent release date and its predecessor's strong reputation. Friday the 13th is considered to be haunted, and as a result studios have had great success releasing horror movies on this date. That worked out forit made over half of its money on Friday, which suggests that the release date was a major draw.The producers—led by horror movie expert Jason Blum —also made the smart decision to keep what worked in the first movie:had the same cast, director, and visual aesthetic. That tends to be the best way to handle sequels, whether in the horror genre or not.This has been a phenomenal year for horror so far.is the fifth horror movie to open in first place this year with over $25 million; ordered by release date, the others areandThe movie's audience was 52 percent male—high for a horror movie—and 62 percent under the age of 25. It received a very good "B+" CinemaScore, which suggests it will have decent holds. Still, horror movies have a tendency to be very frontloaded, and it's unlikely thatmakes it past $100 million.In a distant second place,opened to $14.03 million from 3,091 theaters. That's a solid start for the mob comedy—it ranks second all-time for director Luc Besson, and sixth all-time for distributor Relativity Media. Its audience was 54 percent female and 83 percent over the age of 25; unfortunately, it received a terrible "C" CinemaScore, which suggests it will fall pretty quickly.In its second weekend,plummeted 64 percent to $6.8 million. Through 10 days in theaters, the sci-fi sequel has earned $31.1 million.dropped 34 percent to $5.5 million. On Sunday, it passed $100 million, which makes it the fifth Weinstein Company movie to ever reach that milestone.rounded out the Top Five with $5.4 million, which is off just 30 percent from last weekend. The road trip comedy has earned an excellent $131.6 million so far.Spanish-language family comedyfell 40 percent to $4.86 million. It's now grossed $27.2 million, and should ultimately end its run with over $35 million.Sony released a "Fan Cut" ofthis weekend, and as a result the movie dipped a comparatively light 39 percent to $2.47 million. To date, the 3D concert flick has taken in $27 million.led the foreign box office this weekend with $17.6 million. Over half of that came from China, where the movie opened in first place with $10.2 million. It also debuted in Australia, where it took in $2 million. To date, the family sequel has grossed $220 million overseas.added $13 million this weekend, which included unimpressive debuts in the U.K. ($1.8 million) and Spain ($1.3 million). The Roland Emmerich -directed action movie has so far banked $98 million at the foreign box office.earned $10.7 million from 40 territories this weekend. It had solid starts in Mexico ($2.6 million) and Brazil ($1.9 million). To date,has earned $55.8 million overseas, and still has Australia, France, Italy and Japan on the way.grossed $9.6 million this weekend for an early total of $22 million. It opened well in Russia ($4.3 million), but was less impressive in Australia ($1.1 million).Box Office Mojo