LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Sci-fi action thriller “District 9,” about a colony of aliens stranded in South Africa, landed atop the North American box office with an estimated $37 million its first weekend, distributor Sony Pictures said on Sunday.
The faux documentary produced by Peter Jackson, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, was buoyed by largely favorable reviews and a promotional blitz at the recent Comic-Con convention that stoked pre-release buzz.
The film was directed and co-written by Canadian-born Neill Blomkamp, a protege of Jackson who grew up in South Africa and is making his feature directorial debut after a career of making commercials.
Last week’s No. 1 film in the United States and Canada, Paramount Pictures’ “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra,” fell to No. 2 this weekend with a Friday-through-Sunday estimated gross of $22.5 million.
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