Affleck’s ‘Argo’ tops box office at weekend

Affleck’s ‘Argo’ tops box office at weekend

LOS ANGELES - Agence France-Presse

Cast members of ‘Argo’ pose at the 16th annual Hollywood Film Awards. REUTERS Photo

“Argo,” based on a true story about six Americans spirited out of Iran during the 1979-80 hostage crisis, was the top movie in North America this weekend with $12.3 million in tickets sold, industry estimates showed Oct. 28.

In its second week of release, the film directed by and starring Hollywood actor Ben Affleck jumped from the second to the top spot, earning a total of $60.8 million.

Second place went to the animated film “Hotel Transylvania” about an overprotective vampire dad intent on guarding his adolescent daughter against a budding romance with a human boy. The third spot went to the debut of the genre-busting, time-traveling “Cloud Atlas,” in which Tom Hanks and Halle Berry each play six different roles set across a 500-year span.
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