Lionsgate Entertainment's Ender's Game took the U.S. box office's top spot for the weekend with solid numbers. Meanwhile, Thor: The Dark World opened to huge overseas numbers.
CBS News reports that Ender's Game, based off the popular Orson Scott Card book, earned $28 million for the film's opening weekend.
"The movie is spectacular, but it has at its heart, this wonderful universal struggle - will I make it through these years?" said Sir Ben Kinglsey, who is in the movie.
The film's weekend earnings fall in line with the studio's expectations, but don't come close to other young-adult movies, such as The Hunger Games and Twilight. The film did open much stronger than Beautiful Creatures and The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, both of which had fairly unspectacular runs in theaters.
Bad Grandpa remained strong in its second weekend, bringing in $20.5 million to only drop a single place and bring its domestic box office total to $62 million. Last Vegas, which features a stellar retiree-age cast, earned $16.5 million for third place.
The other new film Free Birds came in just behind Vegas, with $16.2 million. Gravity earned another $13.1 million, staying strong in the box office and now totally $220 million in U.S. box office sales.
Thor: The Dark World opened up in 70 percent of foreign box offices and earned a strong $109.4 million, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film did best, ahead of its Nov. 8 U.S. release, in the U.K. where the movie earned $13.4 million.
The superhero movie helped Disney continue its strong numbers overseas, where the movie studio has grossed $2.3 billion for 2013.
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