Box Office Top 20: 'Perfect Guy' narrowly beats 'The Visit'

Box Office Top 20: 'Perfect Guy' narrowly beats 'The Visit'

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thrillers "The Perfect Guy" and "The Visit" both blew past expectations in their opening weekend in theaters by about $10 million each.

Sony's "The Perfect Guy," with $25.9 million, edged out Universal's "The Visit," with $25.4 million, according to studio-reported actuals.

The Perfect Guy," starring Sanaa Lathan, Morris Chestnut and Michael Ealy, cost $12 million to produce and played on about 848 fewer screens than "The Visit.

M. Night Shyamalan's "The Visit," a collaboration with micro-budget horror masters Blumhouse Pictures, cost only $5 million to make.

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 Rentrak:

"War Room," Sony, $7,772,485, 1,647 locations, $4,719 average, $39,560,812, 3 weeks.

Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by 21st Century Fox; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.