Michael Jackson was the King of Pop, but this weekend he was King of the Box Office!!

His ‘This Is It’ movie, made up completely of footage from rehearsals for the ‘This Is It’ tour brought in $21.3 million dollars this Halloween weekend ($101 million worldwide).  Earning the right to stay in theaters till the Thanksgiving weekend.

Last weeks #1 ‘Paranormal Activity’ fell to #2 with $16.5 million, with ‘Law Abiding Citizen’ at #3 with $7.3 million.

‘Couples Retreat’ is down to #4 with $6 million and rounding out the Top 5 is ‘ Saw VI’ with $5.5 million.

Weekends Top 10

1 Michael Jackson’s This Is It – $21,300,000
2 Paranormal Activity – $16,540,000
3 Law Abiding Citizen – $7,303,000
4 Couples Retreat – $6,097,000
5 Saw VI – $5,560,000
6 Where the Wild Things Are – $5,081,000
7 The Stepfather (2009) – $3,400,000
8 Astro Boy – $3,035,000
9 Amelia – $3,000,000
10 Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant – $2,809,000

Opening this week (11/6/09) we’ve got ‘The Box’ with James Marsden and Cameron Diaz,  Jim Carrey’s ‘ A Christmas Carol’, ‘The Fourth Kind’, and George Clooney’s ‘The Men Who Stare at Goats’.