This time last year we were treated to quite an array at the box office – The Final Destination, Inglourious Basterds, Halloween II. This time around these rankings seem to all be pretty typecast – The Expendables, Eat Pray Love, Nanny McPhee Returns. Oh well. Shaky The Last Exorcism, the faux-doc horror produced by Eli Roth, opened on top with $21.3 million, just beating the surprising $21 million Takers took in.

However there was a more than $10 million drop to #3 with The Expendables, which grabbed another $9.5 million. Last year the top four movies on top had million dollar weekend grosses in the double-digits. The Expendables passed its $80 million budget to $82 million in three weeks…

Sorry if I need to cut this kind of short – Eat Pray Love nabbed $7 million at #4, also passing its $60 million budget this weekend with $60.7 million, and The Other Guys rounds out the top five with $6.6 million.

Out of the top five-

• The special re-release of James Cameron’s Avatar containing nine minutes of extra footage came in twelfth with $4 million at 812 locations.
• With a 424 site expansion Get Low’s weekend profits were boosted 144.9% from last tally, bringing in $1.7 million.
• Jean-Francois Richet’s Mesrine: Killer Instinct, which has already made a splash everywhere but the States, managed $150,000 at 28 sites.

Here are the box office results according to studio estimates Sunday-

1. 1. The Last Exorcism…$21.3 million
2. 2. Takers…$21 million
3. 3. The Expendables…$9.5 million
4. 4. Eat Pray Love…$7 million
5. 5. The Other Guys…$6.6 million
6. 6. Vampires Suck…$5.3 million
7. 7. Inception…$5.1 million
8. 8. Nanny McPhee Returns…$4.7 million
9. 9. The Switch…$4.7 million
10. 10. Piranha 3D…$4.3 million