Top 10 Grossing Movies today in Canada and the United States. Figures are given in United States dollars (USD) and are shown based on total receipts or tickets sold.
1. Machete
| Gross Today: | $3,900,000 |
| Gross Total: | $3,900,000 |
| Release Date: | September 3rd, 2010 |
| Starring: | Danny Trejo, Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Steven Seagal, Michelle Rodriguez |
| Genre: | Action, Crime, Thriller |
| Description: | |
Machete is based on the fake trailer in Robert Rodriguez’s 2007 Grindhouse, featuring Danny Trejo and Jeff Fahey reprising their original roles.
The feature version of the trailer finds Machete (Trejo) a renegade former Mexican Federale, roaming the streets of Texas after a shakedown from drug lord Torrez (Steven Seagal). Reluctantly, Machete takes an offer from spin doctor Benz (Fahey) to assassinate McLaughlin (Robert De Niro) a corrupt Senator. Double crossed and on the run Machete braves the odds with the help of Luz (Michelle Rodriguez), a saucy taco slinger, Padre (Cheech Marin) his holy brother, and April (Lindsay Lohan) a socialite with a penchant for guns. All while being tracked by Sartana (Jessica Alba), a sexy ICE agent with a special interest in the blade slinger.
2. The American
| Gross Today: | $3,800,000 |
| Gross Total: | $6,900,000 |
| Release Date: | September 1st, 2010 |
| Starring: | George Clooney, Thekla Reuten, Irina Björklund, Violante Placido, Paolo Bonacelli |
| Genre: | Drama, Thriller |
| Description: | |
Academy Award winner George Clooney stars in the title role of this suspense thriller. As an assassin, Jack (played by Mr. Clooney) is constantly on the move and always alone. After a job in Sweden ends more harshly than expected for this American abroad, Jack retreats to the Italian countryside. He relishes being away from death for a spell as he holes up in a small medieval town. While there, Jack takes an assignment to construct a weapon for a mysterious contact, Mathilde (Thekla Reuten). Savoring the peaceful quietude he finds in the mountains of Abruzzo, Jack accepts the friendship of local priest Father Benedetto (Paolo Bonacelli) and pursues a torrid liaison with a beautiful woman, Clara (Violante Placido). Jack and Clara’s time together evolves into a romance, one seemingly free of danger. But by stepping out of the shadows, Jack may be tempting fate.
3. Takers
| Gross Today: | $3,100,000 |
| Gross Total: | $29,500,000 |
| Release Date: | August 27th, 2010 |
| Starring: | Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen, Matt Dillon, Michael Ealy, Idris Elba |
| Genre: | Crime, Thriller |
| Description: | |
Takers takes you into the world of a notorious group of criminals (Idris Elba, Paul Walker, T.I., Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen and Michael Ealy) who continue to baffle police by pulling off perfectly executed bank robberies. They are in and out like clockwork, leaving no evidence behind and laying low between heists. But when they attempt to pull off one last job with more money at stake than ever before, the crew may find their plans interrupted by a hardened detective (Matt Dillon) who is hell-bent on solving the case.
4. The Last Exorcism
| Gross Today: | $2,300,000 |
| Gross Total: | $27,100,000 |
| Release Date: | August 27th, 2010 |
| Starring: | Patrick Fabian, Ashley Bell, Iris Bahr, Louis Herthum, Caleb Landry Jones |
| Genre: | Horror, Thriller |
| Description: | |
When he arrives on the rural Louisiana farm of Louis Sweetzer, the Reverend Cotton Marcus expects to perform just another routine “exorcism” on a disturbed religious fanatic. An earnest fundamentalist, Sweetzer has contacted the charismatic preacher as a last resort, certain his teenage daughter Nell is possessed by a demon who must be exorcized before their terrifying ordeal ends in unimaginable tragedy.
Buckling under the weight of his conscience after years of parting desperate believers with their money, Cotton and his crew plan to film a confessionary documentary of this, his last exorcism. But upon arriving at the already blood drenched family farm, it is soon clear that nothing could have prepared him for the true evil he encounters there. Now, too late to turn back, Reverend Marcus’ own beliefs are shaken to the core when he and his crew must find a way to save Nell – and themselves – before it is too late
5. Going the Distance
| Gross Today: | $2,200,000 |
| Gross Total: | $2,200,000 |
| Release Date: | September 3rd, 2010 |
| Starring: | Drew Barrymore, Justin Long, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Christina Applegate |
| Genre: | Comedy, Romance |
| Description: | |
Erin’s (Drew Barrymore) wry wit and unfiltered frankness charm newly single Garrett (Justin Long) over beer, bar trivia and breakfast the next morning. Their chemistry sparks a full-fledged summer fling, but neither expects it to last once Erin heads home to San Francisco and Garrett stays behind for his job in New York City. But when six weeks of romping through the city inadvertently become meaningful, neither is sure they want it to end. And while Garrett’s friends, Box (Jason Sudeikis) and Dan (Charlie Day), joke about his pre-flight calorie-cutting and his full-time relationship with his cell phone, they don’t like losing their best drinking buddy to yet another rocky romance. At the same time, Erin’s high-strung, overprotective married sister, Corrine (Christina Applegate), wants to keep Erin from heading down an all-too-familiar road. But despite the opposite coasts, the nay-saying friends and family, and a few unexpected temptations, the couple just might have found something like love, and with the help of a lot of texting, sexting and late-night phone calls, they might actually go the distance.
6. The Expendables
| Gross Today: | $1,700,000 |
| Gross Total: | $87,300,000 |
| Release Date: | August 13th, 2010 |
| Starring: | Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Eric Roberts |
| Genre: | Action |
| Description: | |
The Expendables is a hard-hitting action/thriller about a group of mercenaries hired to infiltrate a South American country and overthrow its ruthless dictator. Once the mission begins, the men realize things arent quite as they appear, finding themselves caught in a dangerous web of deceit and betrayal. With their mission thwarted and an innocent life in danger, the men struggle with an even tougher challenge one that threatens to destroy this band of brothers.
7. The Other Guys
| Gross Today: | $1,400,000 |
| Gross Total: | $102,900,000 |
| Release Date: | August 6th, 2010 |
| Starring: | Derek Jeter, Samuel L. Jackson, Dwayne Johnson, Larnell Stovall, Jalil Jay Lynch |
| Genre: | Action, Comedy |
| Description: | |
NYPD Detectives Christopher Danson and P.K. are the baddest and most beloved cops in New York City. They don’t get tattoos – other men get tattoos of them. Two desks over and one back, sit Detectives Allen Gamble and Terry Hoitz. You’ve seen them in the background of photos of Danson and Highsmith, out of focus and eyes closed. They’re not heroes – they’re the Other Guys. But every cop has his or her day and soon Gamble and Hoitz stumble into a seemingly innocuous case no other detective wants to touch that could turn into New York City’s biggest crime. It’s the opportunity of their lives, but do these guys have the right stuff?
8. Eat, Pray, Love
| Gross Today: | $1,400,000 |
| Gross Total: | $65,500,000 |
| Release Date: | August 13th, 2010 |
| Starring: | Julia Roberts, I. Gusti Ayu Puspawati, Hadi Subiyanto, Billy Crudup, Viola Davis |
| Genre: | Comedy, Drama |
| Description: | |
While trying to get pregnant, a happily married woman realizes her life needs to go in a different direction, and after a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey. Based on the memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert.
9. Inception
| Gross Today: | $1,200,000 |
| Gross Total: | $273,800,000 |
| Release Date: | July 16th, 2010 |
| Starring: | Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe |
| Genre: | Action, Sci-Fi |
| Description: | |
Acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan directs an international cast in an original sci-fi actioner that travels around the globe and into the intimate and infinite world of dreams. Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobbs rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved. Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption. One last job could give him his life back but only if he can accomplish the impossibleinception. Instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team of specialists have to pull off the reverse: their task is not to steal an idea but to plant one. If they succeed, it could be the perfect crime. But no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare the team for the dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move. An enemy that only Cobb could have seen coming. This summer, your mind is the scene of the crime.
10. Nanny McPhee Returns
| Gross Today: | $900,000 |
| Gross Total: | $19,700,000 |
| Release Date: | August 20th, 2010 |
| Starring: | Maggie Gyllenhaal, Oscar Steer, Asa Butterfield, Lil Woods, Eros Vlahos |
| Genre: | Adventure, Comedy, Children, Family, Fantasy |
| Description: | |
In Nanny McPhee Returns, Oscar®-winning actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson returns to the role of the magical nanny who appears when she’s needed the most and wanted the least in the next chapter of the hilarious and heartwarming fable that has enchanted children around the world.
In the latest installment, Nanny McPhee appears at the door of a harried young mother, Mrs. Isabel Green (Maggie Gyllenhaal), who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war. But once she’s arrived, Nanny McPhee discovers that Mrs. Green’s children are fighting a war of their own against two spoiled city cousins who have just moved in and refuse to leave.
Relying on everything from a flying motorcycle and a statue that comes to life to a tree-climbing piglet and a baby elephant who turns up in the oddest places, Nanny McPhee uses her magic to teach her mischievous charges five new lessons.
