'Prisoners' tops weekend box office charts with USD 21.4m

The Warner Bros. thriller, which also features Jake Gyllenhaal, is among the first fall films with Oscar aspirations, to open in theatres, Fox News reported.

‘Insidious: Chapter 2' has slid to second place with 14.5 million dollars in its second weekend, whereas, the Chris Brown dance film ‘Battle of the Year' opened poorly with just 5 million dollars.

1. ‘Prisoners' - 21.4 million dollars
2. ‘Insidious Chapter 2' - 14.5 million dollars
3. ‘The Family' - 7 million dollars
4. ‘Instructions Not Included' - 5.7 million dollars
5. ‘Battle of the Year' - 5 million dollars
6. ‘We're the Millers' - 4.7 million dollars
7. ‘Lee Daniels' The Butler' - 4.3 million dollars
8. ‘Riddick' - 3.7 million dollars
9. ‘The Wizard of Oz' - 3 million dollars
10. ‘Planes' - 2.9 million dollarsu00a0