Ben Affleck's Argo Can't Unseat the No. 1 Film

Liam Neeson wins again with 'Taken 2'
By Neal Colgrass,  Newser Staff
Posted Oct 14, 2012 4:40 PM CDT
Ben Affleck's Argo Can't Unseat the No. 1 Film
This image released by 20th Century Fox shows Liam Neeson in a scene from "Taken 2."   (AP Photo/20th Century Fox, Magali Bragard)

Liam Neeson edged Ben Affleck at the box office this weekend as Taken 2 banked $22.5 million and the Affleck-directed political thriller Argo debuted at $20.1 million, says the Hollywood Reporter. The micro-budgeted horror film Sinister ($18.3 million) beat expectations by taking third, followed by Hotel Transylvania ($17.3 million) and the new comedy Here Comes the Boom ($12 million). The conservative-leaning Atlas Shrugged: Part II ($1.7 million) took twelfth in its first weekend. (More box office stories.)

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