Ender's Game blasts to top of box office

Sci-fi film Ender's Game, starring Harrison Ford, has topped the US weekend box office. Source: AAP

WEEKEND moviegoers chose sci-fi over slapstick.

Ender's Game scored the No. 1 slot at the weekend box office, earning $US28 million ($A29.69 million) in its opening weekend and sending Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa into second place, according to studio estimates on Sunday.

Lionsgate's Ender's Game, based on the novel by Orson Scott Card, stars Asa Butterfield and Harrison Ford as intergalactic soldiers.

Comments made by Card expressing opposition to gay marriage led some to call for a boycott of the film. But a strong first-place opening met the studio's pre-weekend expectations.

However, ticket sales didn't come close to the opening weekends of other young-adult science-fiction adaptations such as Twilight and The Hunger Games. It did fare better than Beautiful Creatures and The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.

A representative for Lionsgate declined to be interviewed for this story.

Paramount's candid-camera comedy starring Johnny Knoxville disguised as an old man brought in another $US20.5 million in its second weekend, with a domestic total reaching more than $US62 million.

Other films opening this weekend didn't generate as much enthusiasm.

Last Vegas, featuring an all-star cast of silver screen veterans including Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline, opened in third place, with $US16.5 million.

Relativity Media's 3D animated kiddie flick Free Birds, with characters voiced by Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson and Amy Poehler, debuted in the fourth spot, with $US16.2 million.

After its fifth weekend at the box office, the Warner Bros. 3D stunner Gravity is still holding in the fifth position. It banked $US13.1 million over the weekend, bringing its domestic total to $US220 million.

Overseas, Disney's Thor: The Dark World, starring, earned an impressive $US109.4 million in its first international weekend. The Marvel superhero sequel opens domestically next weekend.

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