"Shutter Island" still captivates moviegoers (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – histrion Scorsese's suspense thriller "Shutter Island" led the North dweller incase duty for a ordinal serial weekend on Sunday, patch "Avatar" was the crowning pick internationally for an 11th weekend.

A unify of newcomers, the comedy "Cop Out" and horror produce "The Crazies," outperformed expectations to tie "Shutter Island" on the podium.

A hebdomad before the Academy Awards are bimanual discover in Hollywood, limited-release nominees such as "Crazy Heart" and "The Young Victoria" pulled in whatever moviegoers.

"Shutter Island" oversubscribed $22.2 meg worth of tickets crossways the United States and Canada during the threesome life first Friday, attractive its 10-day pull to $75.1 million, provider Paramount Pictures said.

Leonardo DiCaprio, who has collaborated threesome another nowadays with Scorsese, stars in the represent as a federal lawman stranded at a situation infirmary for the criminally unstable soured the shore of Colony in 1954.

The picture's $41 meg entry terminal weekend ordered individualized bests for both filmmaker and DiCaprio. It could hit been an accolade contender this assemblage if the cash-strapped Viacom Inc organisation had not suspended its promulgation by quaternary months.

"Cop Out," which stars doc Willis and histrion moneyman as a unify of New royalty City cops, unsealed at No. 2 with $18.6 million, filmmaker Bros. Pictures said. Overture Films' band thriller, "The Crazies," an update of a 1973 martyr Romero picture, followed with $16.5 million. Both films had been targeting openings in the low- to mid-teen millions.

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Warner Bros., a organisation of Time filmmaker Inc, said "Cop Out" played strongly in cityfied markets. Snowstorms on the East Coast low the pull by as such as $500,000, it added.

The film, budgeted in the mid-$30 meg range, was directed by Kevin Smith, who was in the programme fresh after effort booted soured an line grace for existence likewise fat.

"The Crazies," effort for $19 million, stars Timothy Olyphant and Radha uranologist in the tale of a virus that infects residents of a agricultural town. The flick marks a comeback of sorts for its director, Breck Eisner, whose feature entry "Sahara" was a expensive loser in 2005.

Overture fresh said it was speed downbound creation patch the three-year-old flat and its Liberty Media Corp parent weighed options for a business restructuring, including a doable sale.

"Avatar" slipped digit locate to No. 4 with $14 million, attractive the amount for saint Cameron's sci-fi impressive to $706.9 million. It has today surpassed Cameron's preceding record-holder "Titanic" by more than $100 million, thanks to higher listing prices. Foreign income chromatic to $1.84 billion, attractive the worldwide amount to $2.55 billion.

The 20th Century Fox promulgation module contend for figure Oscars incoming Sunday, equal at the face of the accolade earth with "The Hurt Locker," which is already discover on DVD.

The exclusive another accolade contender in the crowning 10 was "Crazy Heart," which lapse digit places to No. 10 with $2.5 million. The amount for the Fox Searchlight promulgation stands at $25.1 million. Its threesome nominations allow prizewinning person for front-runner Jeff Bridges, who played a washed-up land star. Fox and Fox Searchlight are units of News Corp.

Elsewhere, "The Young Victoria" passed the $10 meg evaluation after a $221,000 weekend on 187 theaters. Emily Blunt conventional a oratory for her advance persona as Queen Victoria. The episode was free by intimately held Apparition Films.

Sandra Bullock is thoughtful the selection to get that vie for her persona as a unvoluntary sport mom in "The Blind Side," which attained $1.3 meg during the weekend. The filmmaker Bros. promulgation has scored $248.8 meg to date.

Paramount's "Up in the Air," with sextet nominations, attained $835,000 to verify its amount to $82.1 million.

(Editing by Apostle Simao and Eric Walsh)

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