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Resident Evil: Retribution has debuted at number one on the US box office.

The Paul W S Anderson movie, starring Milla Jovovich, opened with weekend sales of $21.1 million, compared with the $26.6 million opening for Resident Evil: Afterlife in 2010.

Pixar’s Finding Nemo (3D) re-release also opened to strong numbers in second place, earning $17.5 million in ticket sales.

Horror movie The Possession failed to keep its number one spot, falling to number three, while kid-friendly animated movie ParaNorman stayed at five with $3 million.

Bradley Cooper’s drama The Words took a fall from fourth to seventh place with $2.8 million, while Will Ferrell’s The Campaign continues to hold on at number ten with just $2.4 million.

The US box office top ten:
1. (-) Resident Evil: Retribution – $21,100,000
2. (-) Finding Nemo (3D) – $17,504,000
3. (1) The Possession – $5,800,000
4. (2) Lawless – $4,219,000
5. (5) ParaNorman – $3,039,000
6. (3) The Expendables 2 -$3,030,000
7. (4) The Words – $2,880,000
8. (6) The Bourne Legacy – $2,875,000
9. (7) The Odd Life of Timothy Green – $2,511,000
10. (8) The Campaign – $2,405,000

300‘s upcoming sequel is to be subtitled Rise of an Empire, Warner Bros has confirmed.

Noam Murro’s follow-up was previously in development as 300: The Battle of Artemisia, but has now undergone a name change.

Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green and Lena Headey will lead the cast of 300: Rise of an Empire, which follows Zack Snyder’s 2006 original.

Hans Matheson, Rodrigo Santoro, Igal Naor, Callan Mulvey, Jack O’Connell and Andrew Tiernan make up the supporting cast.

300: Rise of an Empire will reportedly centre on Greek general Themistocles, who lead Athens against Persian forces in a battle that took place around the events of the first film.

300: Rise of an Empire is scheduled for release on August 2, 2013.

The Possession has won the top spot in the US box office for the second week in a row.

Starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick, the horror film led a dismal fall weekend, bringing in $9.5 million and raising its total gross to $33.3 million.

Lawless, Shia LaBeouf’s 1920s crime drama, managed to hold on to its place at number two, earning $6 million.

Bradley Cooper’s latest drama The Words made just $5 million in ticket sales, debuting at third place, while The Expendables 2 dropped one place to number four with $4.75 million.

Rounding out the top ten are political comedy The Campaign at number eight with $3.5 million, The Dark Knight Rises with an additional $3 million to its $437 million total gross at number nine, and the documentary 2016: Obama’s America at ten with $3 million.

This is the lowest-grossing weekend at the US box office since 2008, with no film managing to break the $10 million mark.

The US box office top ten:
1. (1) The Possession – $9,500,000
2. (2) Lawless – $6,002,000
3. (-) The Words – $5,000,000
4. (3) The Expendables 2 – $4,750,000
5. (4) The Bourne Legacy – $4,000,000
6. (5) ParaNorman -$3,830,000
7. (6) The Odd Life of Timothy Green – $5,880,000
8. (8) The Campaign – $3,530,000
9. (7) The Dark Knight Rises – $3,285,000
10. (9) 2016: Obama’s America – $3,281,000

Christian Bale has flown a 4-year-old cancer sufferer to meet with him and his family at Disneyland.

The Dark Knight Rises star flew Jayden Barber and his entire family to Los Angeles for a lunch at Disneyland’s Club 33 earlier this week.

The boy’s mother Charlene Barber posted photos of the actor with her son on a specially-created group called ‘Lighting the Batsignal for Jayden‘.

She wrote: “The entire interaction was like old friends having lunch. Jayden did not get starstruck but was well aware of who we were with!

“They talked movies and superheroes and he was genuinely happy to hear about everything Jayden wanted to tell him. Christian, his wife and daughter are three of the most beautiful people we have ever met! Christian made these arrangements for us personally and ensured we were treated like royalty.

“I don’t have even one negative thing to say about them. I can tell you that they were just as impressed w Jayden as Jayden was w them :)”

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