Top 10 at the Weekend Box Office

Notes:

• With only $300,000 separating them, the fright flick The Last Exorcism and the heist thriller Takers were in a photo finish for the top spot at the weekend box office -- with both ending the two-week reign of Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables.
• Lionsgate's The Last Exorcism had a thin lead with a $21.3 million debut, closely followed by Sony's Takers with a $21 million opening. The two new releases were close enough that rankings could change after final numbers are released Monday. August 30 update: The movies DID switch places once final weekend numbers were released on Monday. Takers debuted with $20.5 million to grab a narrow win over The Last Exorcism, which opened in second place with $20.4 million.
  
• The re-release of Avatar, the biggest movie in box office history, brought in $4 million from a limited run in 862 3D theaters -- good enough for 12th place. The total domestic box office for the 20th Century Fox sci-fi extravaganza, now boasting an additional 8 1/2 minutes minutes of footage, is $753.8 million.
  
• Meanwhile in worldwide box office, Disney/Pixar's Toy Story 3 crossed the $1 billion mark last Friday. Disney is now the first company to field two $1 billion blockbusters in the same year. Earlier this year, Disney's Alice in Wonderland, also crossed that line and currently stands in fifth place in the all-time worldwide rankings with $1.024 billion. Toy Story 3 ranks in seventh place.
  
• Overall box office revenues came in at $115 million, down 8 percent compared with the same weekend last year.
• Reviews of Eat Pray Love, The Other Guys, Inception, The Switch and other movies not in the top 10, can be found by clicking on the Film Reviews archive icon at left.
• All figures are industry estimates. Final weekend figures are released on Monday.
• Sources: Nielsen EDI, Hollywood.com, Hollywood Reporter, Reuters