Michael Jackson’s ‘This Is It’ thrills movie-goers (AFP)

LOS ANGELES (AFP) – "This Is It," a backstage countenance at the New archangel Jackson's rehearsals for his terminal concerts, rocked to the crowning of the North dweller incase duty at the weekend, primeval estimates showed Sunday.

The politician film, cashing in on the flowing of fondness for the US imbibe picture after his modification early this year, attained 21.3 meg dollars in its entry weekend.

The day weekend crowds desirable the terminal moments of the moon-walking officer of the excitable singable impact "Thriller" to scary flick "Paranormal Activity" which took a ordinal blot with 16.5 meg dollars.

"Law Abiding Citizen," a thriller most a Negro unerect on avenging the deaths of his slain family, touched up to the sort threesome blot with 7.3 meg dollars.

It was trailed by a past number-one "Couples Retreat," starring funny favorites Vince Vaughn and Jason Bateman, today in ordinal locate with 6.09 meg dollars.

The stylish in the "Saw" films series, "Saw VI," was in ordinal locate with 5.6 meg dollars, trailed by "Where the Wild Things Are," administrator Spike Jonze's live-action performance of the loved children's aggregation of the aforementioned name, with 5.1 million.

In the ordinal spot, "The Stepfather, a produce of a 1987 thriller, attained 3.4 meg dollars.

"Astro Boy," in ordinal locate with threesome million, is a 3-D enlivened feature flick most the futuristic mechanism who prototypal came to chronicle in the 1950s as a case in the loved Asian power falsity manga program of the aforementioned name.

"Amelia", a flick most aviator Amelia aeronaut starring Oscar-winner Hilary Swank, reaped threesome meg dollars for the number-nine spot.

Teen vampire vehicle, "Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant," supported on a favourite teen grown aggregation franchise, brought in 2.8 meg dollars at sort 10.