Summary Spooky thriller 'Ouija' haunted the top of the North American box office.
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Spooky thriller "Ouija" scared up a strong showing at North America s box office this weekend to debut in first place, industry figures showed Monday.
The supernatural horror flick, about a group of friends who wake an ancient spirit with a Ouija board, earned $19.9 million in its opening weekend, according to box office tracker Exhibitor Relations.
Another new release, action movie "John Wick," blasted into second place, pushing Brad Pitt s latest war movie "Fury" down to third.
"John Wick," starring Keanu Reeves as an ex-hitman who returns from retirement to take revenge on gangsters who attacked him, raked in $14.4 million in ticket sales.
"Fury," a gory World War II film that has already been turned into a video game, fell from first place. It earned $13.4 million, putting its two-week total at over $46 million.
"Gone Girl," starring Ben Affleck as a husband accused of murdering his wife (Rosamund Pike), was just behind with $11 million -- good enough for fourth place, putting its four-week haul at $124 million.
Animated comedy "The Book of Life," featuring the voices of Zoe Saldana and Channing Tatum, was in fifth place at $10 million.
"St. Vincent," a comedy starring Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy and Naomi Watts, jumped into sixth place in its first weekend in wide release.
The film, about a young boy who befriends the crusty war veteran living next door, earned $7.7 million.
Disney s "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" -- based on a children s book of the same name and starring Steve Carell and Jennifer Garner -- came in seventh place at just under $7.2 million.
Romance "The Best of Me," starring James Marsden and Michelle Monaghan as high school sweethearts who reunite in their hometown, dropped to eighth place, earning $4.6 million.
Action-horror film "Dracula Untold" -- depicting the vampire as a flawed hero in a tragic love tale -- fell to ninth place with $4.4 million.
And rounding out the top ten was Robert Downey Jr s much-anticipated "The Judge," co-starring Robert Duvall, with $4.37 million, putting its three-week take at a disappointing $34.4 million.
