Weekend Box Office: Best Man Holiday Celebrates Success, Thor Holds On To Number One

It was a weekend worth celebrating for the heavily marketed The Best Man Holiday. The follow up to the lesser known 1999 release The Best Man banked $30 million against its modest $17 million budget for a financially solid opening.

Holiday marks the highest opening for director Malcolm D. Lee and, given this opening success, may mark a franchise opportunity. Any franchise would be better than his last: as the helmer of Scary Movie 5 Lee found himself sucked into one of the most useless film series to haunt the screen.

Despite The Best Man Holiday's success, Thor: The Dark World held on to first place, adding $38 million to its $146 million domestic total. It passed The Wolverine to become the third highest grossing comic-flick of the year, but looks to fall well short of Man of Steel and Iron Man 3 and their $291 million and $409 million respective totals.

Gravity climbed to the fifth highest grossing film of the year to date with its $240 million domestic total. It's not likely to move any higher up that chart, but with only a handful of films set to release in the last few weeks of the year, it's a lock to stick in the top ten of the year and one of only two or three non-sequels on that list.

For the full weekend top ten, check out the chart below: