As expected, David Ayer’s Fury rolled over the competition this weekend, opening to a decent $23.5 million. However, that is a bit below projections as many were predicting it would come close to Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, which opened to $38 million back in 2009. Perhaps it just looked a little too similar. Elsewhere, David Fincher’s Gone Girl dropped to second place, just barely edging out the animated film The Book of Life, which had a debut on par with what The Boxtrolls made last month. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and The Best of Me rounded out the top 5. Outside of the top 10, Birdman had a very strong per-theatre average while playing on just four screens, which bodes well for Fox Searchlight’s expansion plans in the coming weeks.

1. Fury — $23.5M
2. Gone Girl — $17.8M
3. The Book of Life — $17M
4. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day — $12.04M
5. The Best of Me — $10.2M
6. Dracula Untold — $9.89M
7. The Judge — $7.94M
8. Annabelle — $7.93M
9. The Equalizer — $5.45M
10. The Maze Runner — $4.5M