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Summary The Expendables 2 stars Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jet Li.
A-list action romp The Expendables 2 held onto the top rung of the North American box office for a second weekend, keeping The Bourne Legacy at bay, industry figures showed Monday.The Expendables 2, which stars Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jet Li as mercenaries, raked in $13.4 million a week after its debut, according to movie tracker Exhibitor Relations.The Bourne Legacy -- starring Jeremy Renner as a secret agent threatened by his employers in the latest installment of the popular series that had starred Matt Damon as Jason Bourne -- took in $9.3 million for second place.Coming in third, also for a second week in a row, was ParaNorman, an animated movie about a boy who can speak with the dead. It earned $8.6 million in ticket sales.Political spoof The Campaign, starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis, remained in fourth place, with box office receipts of $7.5 million.The Dark Knight Rises, the latest Batman film, climbed back up to fifth place, earning $7.2 million. The final installment in the trilogy directed by Christopher Nolan has so far raked in more than $422 million.Quirky fantasy-comedy The Odd Life of Timothy Green climbed to sixth place a week after its debut, bringing in $7.1 million.2016: Obamas America, a documentary by conservative writer and commentator Dinesh DSouza, shot to seventh place from a distant 13th last week, bringing in $6.5 million.Premium Rush, an action film starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a bike messenger being pursued by a corrupt cop, debuted in eighth at just over $6 million.Rounding out the top 10 were Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Joness romantic comedy Hope Springs, with $5.7 million in ticket sales, and action chase film Hit and Run, which made $4.5 million in its opening weekend.
