Spy tops box office with $30 million

Writer/director Melissa McCarthy pushed Spy to a $30 million debut in a slow weekend at the box office. R-rated comedy reunites Bridesmaids director Paul Feig with McCarthy as a deskbound CIA agent brought into the field to stop a Bulgarian arms dealer. Spy scores 95% fresh rating on aggregate site RottenTomatoes.com. Audiences, 60% of whom were female, graded the comedy a B+ on CinemaScore.

"It was the perfect formula. Melissa McCarthy and Paul Feig are clearly in sync and made beautiful cinematic music together," says Paul Dergarabedian, box office analyst for Rentrak. "Leo DiCaprio has (Martin) Scorsese, McCarthy has Feig," he added. The unusual comic casting of Jason Statham as an over-the-top fellow agent also pulled in audiences. "To have those two in the same movie together, that really drew people," Dergarabedian says.

San Andreas fell 52% in ticket sales and finished second. Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson and San Andreas added $26.4M, bringing its total to just under $100 million. Among new releases, Gramercy premiered 'Insidious: Chapter 3,' another low-budget package from horror impresario Jason Blum, to $23 million across 3,002 theaters.