'Zero Dark Thirty' tops box office in first weekend of wide release

January 14, 2013 | 10:02 am
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FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 10, 2012 file photo, actress Jessica Chastain arrives at the premiere of the feature film "Zero Dark Thirty" at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Chastain stars as a dogged CIA officer in "Zero Dark Thirty," a performance that has already earned her best actress nominations from the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild. After a glut of films starring Chastain were released in 2011, the actress says: "I never think about what's next. I always just think: "What haven't I done yet?" (Photo by Dan Steinberg/Invision/AP, File)

$24 million: How much money "Zero Dark Thirty" brought in over the weekend, making it the top grossing movie of the weekend. It was the first weekend the film was in wide release (it opened in New York and Los Angeles in December). The film based on the hunt for Osama bin Laden topped "Gangster Squad," the star-packed film with Ryan Gosling and Sean Penn, which brought in only $16.7 million for third place. In second for the weekend was "A Haunted House," the low-budget horror movie starring Marlon Wayans, which took in $18.8 million.