Box: They're all gonna laugh with you, not at you.

1. Gravity - $30m / $169m / $265m
2. Carrie - $20m / $20m / $45m
3. Captain Phillips - $16.5m / $53m / $100m
4. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 - $9.5m / $92.5m / $120m
5. Escape Plan - $9m / $9m / $24m
6. The Fifth Estate - $5m / $5m / $13m
7. Prisoners - $2m / $57m / $62m
8. Insidious: Chapter 2 - $1.6m / $81m / $85m
*Machete Kills - $1.6m / $7m / $10m
*Runner Runner - $1.6m / $17.5m / $21m

Gravity is on its way to being the highest grossing film to ever open in October.  Both it and Captain Phillips will have strong holds for the next several weeks.  Carrie, of the three wide releases, will be the only one to make a dent.  It'll be helped by being the only horror film in October.  The film's reviews are being held off, so don't expect quality sadly.  Both Arnold and Sly's genre entries this year - The Last Stand and Bullet to the Head - did dismal numbers.  But this film has box-office juggernaut Amy Ryan!  Nah, Escape Plan is going nowhere, as is The Fifth Estate.  The mediocre reviews will hurt that one.  Possibly making it in to the top 10 is 12 Years a Slave, debuting in 18 theaters.  I suspect it will cross $1m for the weekend, a fantastic number.  The buzz is so big that it could go even higher.