Douglas, Stone’s ‘Wall Street’ sequel finds buyers with $19M debut weekend

‘Wall Street’ finds buyers with $19M debut weekend

LOS ANGELES — Wall Street shark Gordon Gekko is making millions at the box office again.

Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” with Michael Douglas reprising his 1987 Academy Award-winning role as trader Gekko, debuted at No. 1 with a $19 million weekend.

The animated adventure “Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole” opened in second-place with $16.1 million.

The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Hollywood.com are:

1. “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” Fox, $19,011,188, 3,565 locations, $5,333 average, $19,011,188, one week.

2. “Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole,” Warner Bros., $16,112,211, 3,575 locations, $4,507 average, $16,112,211, one week.

3. “The Town,” Warner Bros., $15,605,171, 2,885 locations, $5,409 average, $48,692,072, two weeks.

4. “Easy A,” Sony Screen Gems, $10,600,497, 2,856 locations, $3,712 average, $32,714,215, two weeks.

5. “You Again,” Disney, $8,407,513, 2,548 locations, $3,300 average, $8,407,513, one week.

6. “Devil,” Universal, $6,605,960, 2,811 locations, $2,350 average, $21,859,425, two weeks.

7. “Resident Evil: Afterlife,” Sony Screen Gems, $4,954,791, 2,642 locations, $1,875 average, $52,073,588, three weeks.

8. “Alpha and Omega,” Lionsgate, $4,735,271, 2,625 locations, $1,804 average, $15,164,944, two weeks.

9. “Takers,” Sony Screen Gems, $1,622,302, 1,413 locations, $1,148 average, $54,885,175, five weeks.

10. “Inception,” Warner Bros., $1,247,006, 907 locations, $1,375 average, $287,053,292, 11 weeks.

11. “The Other Guys,” Sony, $992,812, 1,047 locations, $948 average, $116,966,981, eight weeks.

12. “The American,” Focus Features, $896,382, 1,315 locations, $682 average, $34,607,381, four weeks.

13. “Eat Pray Love,” Sony, $704,613, 855 locations, $824 average, $79,040,308, seven weeks.

14. “Machete,” Fox, $642,832, 682 locations, $943 average, $25,733,677, four weeks.

15. “Despicable Me,” Universal, $582,585, 610 locations, $955 average, $245,514,665, 12 weeks.

16. “The Expendables,” Lionsgate, $564,081, 852 locations, $662 average, $102,070,047, seven weeks.

17. “Catfish,” Universal, $452,580, 57 locations, $7,940 average, $811,280, two weeks.

18. “Nanny McPhee Returns,” Universal, $394,275, 765 locations, $515 average, $28,226,225, six weeks.

19. “The Last Exorcism,” Lionsgate, $344,675, 707 locations, $488 average, $40,773,301, five weeks.

20. “Get Low,” Sony Pictures Classics, $317,164, 354 locations, $896 average, $8,317,497, nine weeks.

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Universal Pictures and Focus Features are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of General Electric Co.; Sony Pictures, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount and Paramount Vantage are divisions of Viacom Inc.; Disney’s parent is The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is a division of The Walt Disney Co.; 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Fox Atomic are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a consortium of Providence Equity Partners, Texas Pacific Group, Sony Corp., Comcast Corp., DLJ Merchant Banking Partners and Quadrangle Group; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC Films is owned by Rainbow Media Holdings, a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corp.; Rogue Pictures is owned by Relativity Media LLC; Overture Films is a subsidiary of Liberty Media Corp.