Fans declare 'Wild Things' king with $32.7M

Adult crowds who grew up on Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are" turned the movie version of the beloved picture book into the weekend's top draw with $32.7 million.

Distributor Warner Bros. noted that despite its kid-friendly PG rating, Spike Jonze's "Wild Things" adaptation was a bigger hit with grown-ups than with family audiences.

The low-budget horror sensation "Paranormal Activity" continued doing big business as it widened to more theaters and climbed to No. 3 with $19.6 million.

The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Hollywood.com are:

1. "Where the Wild Things Are," Warner Bros., $32,695,407, 3,735 locations, $8,754 average, $32,695,407, one week.

2. "Law Abiding Citizen," Overture, $21,039,502, 2,890 locations, $7,280 average, $21,039,502, one week.

3. "Paranormal Activity," Paramount, $19,617,650, 763 locations, $25,711 average, $33,171,743, four weeks.

4. "Couples Retreat," Universal, $17,227,390, 3,009 locations, $5,725 average, $62,617,735, two weeks.

5. "The Stepfather," Sony Screen Gems, $11,581,586, 2,734 locations, $4,236 average, $11,581,586, one week.

6. "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs," Sony, $8,017,871, 3,037 locations, $2,640 average, $108,201,645, five weeks.

7. "Zombieland," Sony, $7,616,939, 3,171 locations, $2,402 average, $60,640,317, three weeks.

8. "Toy Story" and "Toy Story 2" in 3-D, Disney, $3,016,580, 1,489 locations, $2,026 average, $28,554,678, three weeks.

9. "Surrogates," Disney, $1,917,315, 2,326 locations, $824 average, $36,327,650, four weeks.

10. "The Invention of Lying," Warner Bros., $1,907,398, 1,624 locations, $1,175 average, $15,497,164, three weeks.

11. "Whip It," Fox Searchlight, $1,507,379, 1,482 locations, $1,017 average, $11,360,796, three weeks.

12. "Capitalism: A Love Story," Overture, $1,455,510, 993 locations, $1,466 average, $11,622,433, four weeks.

13. "The Informant!", Warner Bros., $955,456, 1,228 locations, $778 average, $31,766,896, five weeks.

14. "Fame," MGM, $903,890, 1,555 locations, $581 average, $21,795,849, four weeks.

15. "A Serious Man," Focus, $842,511, 82 locations, $10,275 average, $1,843,307, three weeks.

16. "Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself," Lionsgate, $557,799, 807 locations, $691 average, $51,383,324, six weeks.

17. "Love Happens," Universal, $547,765, 1,043 locations, $525 average, $22,416,260, five weeks.

18. "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra," Paramount, $407,537, 514 locations, $793 average, $149,645,921, 11 weeks.

19. "Good Hair," Roadside Attractions, $398,492, 179 locations, $2,226 average, $1,727,486, two weeks.

20. "Bright Star," Apparition, $396,479, 295 locations, $1,344 average, $3,534,192, five weeks.

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Universal Pictures and Focus Features are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of General Electric Co.; Sony Pictures, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount and Paramount Vantage are divisions of Viacom Inc.; Disney's parent is The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is a division of The Walt Disney Co.; 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Fox Atomic are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a consortium of Providence Equity Partners, Texas Pacific Group, Sony Corp., Comcast Corp., DLJ Merchant Banking Partners and Quadrangle Group; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC Films is owned by Rainbow Media Holdings, a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corp.; Rogue Pictures is owned by Relativity Media LLC; Overture Films is a subsidiary of Liberty Media Corp.