Another week, another weak slate of releases. The only major release this weekend was the latest of the Vince Vaughn “comedies”, Couples Retreat, which also stars Jason Bateman, Jon Favreau and Kristen Bell. As the weekend’s only big opener, it easily claimed the nr. 1 spot with $34.28M, laughing its way past Zombieland in second place with a steady second week, bringing in $14.8M for a total gross of $47.6M.

Besides Vaughn’s “comedy”, Chris Rock’s new documentary Good Hair also debuted on 186 screens, grossing about $1M. The succes story of the week however, is the surprise hit horror film Paranormal Activity which expanded further this week and grossed $7.9M on just 160 screens. An insanely high amount for so few screens, securing it the fourth spot on the box office list. The gross-per-screen is actually so high that the movie places itself as the highest grossing film on 200 screens or less. Pretty rad.

1. Couples Retreat – $34.28M
2. Zombieland – $14.8M
3. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs – $11.52M
4. Paranormal Activity – $7.9M
5. Toy Story – $7.76M
6. Surrogates – $4.26M
7. The Invention of Lying – $3.33M
8. Whip It – $2.82M
9. Capitalism: A Love Story – $2.63M
10. Fame – $2.54M