Ender's Game enjoys a solid weekend with $28 million collections

Gavin Hood's sci-fi phenomenon Ender's Game is a success story with a huge $28 million opening in the domestic front. It still needs to go a long way to meet its $110 million budget which would face difficulties from Thor: The Dark World, which enters the race next weekend.

Ender's Game received a B+ CinemaScore and 58 percent of the audience were over the age of 25. A co-production between Summit Entertainment, OddLot Entertainment and Digital Domain, Ender's Game, starring Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Viola Davis, Hailee Steinfeld and Abigail Breslin, is aiming to launch a franchise. Set in the near future, the story is about a young boy (Butterfield) who has been appointed by the military to fight an alien race stopping them from destroying the world. Ender's Game has also set off its overseas journey grossing $9.1 million so far from 15 markets, though the novel was never an international bestseller.

Paramount's Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa has also emerged as a box office hit, falling less than 38 percent in its second weekend. The R-rated comedy earned $20.5 million completing this weekend with $62.1 million in the domestic market and it stood at No. 2. Bad Grandpa, which was produced for a meagre $15 million, is also a superhit internationally, grossing $6 million from 19 markets this weekend. Last Vegas, starring Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline, stands at No. 3 with a $16.5 million box-office collection. Free Birds, which was produced for $55 million, could gross only $16.2 million. The Thanksgiving-themed movie, which was also the debut for Relativity in the animation films, had voice by Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson and Amy Poehler. Both Free Birds and Last Vegas earned A- CinemaScore. Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave has been doing a commendable job in its third weekend, grossing $4.6 million for a North American total of $8.8 million.