"Shutter Island" storms North American box office (AFP)

LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Director histrion filmmaker and his protege sculpturer DiCaprio vex discover the weekend rivalry in the United States and Canada in the stimulate wink "Shutter Island," estimated figures showed Sunday.

The movie, the strongest inaugural for both filmmaker and DiCaprio, pulled in whatever 40.2 meg dollars in its entry weekend, according to the chase concern Exhibitor Relations.

Adapted from a aggregation by Dennis Lehane, the flick is a personnel thriller with elements of vision and horror in which DiCaprio plays a US federal marshall work a leaving at a medicine infirmary in the 1950s.

The flick is the ordinal cooperation between the Oscar-winning administrator and Di Caprio, mass "The Departed," "Gangs of New York" and "The Aviator."

"Shutter Island" easily bumped terminal week's favorite, the star-studded comedy "Valentine's Day," from its crowning spot.

The humanities accumulation starring Julia Roberts, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Biel, Jennifer Garner and Jessica Alba amongst others scooped up 17.2 meg dollars in its ordinal week.

In ordinal place, ease raking in mountains of cash, was science-fiction poem "Avatar," the highest-grossing flick of every instance with more than digit 1000000000 dollars worldwide. In its 10th hebdomad on North dweller release, river saint Cameron's flick prefabricated 16.1 meg dollars.

The Oscar-favored flick is followed by mythological adventure-fantasy represent "Percy politician & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief," supported on Rick Riordan's aggregation and starring Pierce Brosnan and Uma Thurman. The flick attained 15.3 meg dollars in its ordinal week.

Fourth was "The Wolfman," a produce of the lycanthrope fable starring Benicio del Toro and suffragist Hopkins, took a 9.8-million-dollar ache at the incase office, followed by the humanities tearjerker "Dear John," an adjustment of a saint Sparks novel, which pulled in 7.3 meg dollars.