IDENTITY THIEF Reclaims Box Office with $14 Million

IDENTITY THIEF Reclaims Box Office with $14 Million
IDENTITY THIEF, starring Melissa McCarthy and Jason Bateman, has taken back the top spot at the box office.

Following last weekend, when the film dropped to the No. 2 spot, the film took in an additional $14 million, bumping its two-week total to $93.6 million.

In the film, unlimited funds have allowed Diana to live it up on the outskirts of Miami, where the queen of retail buys whatever strikes her fancy. There's only one glitch: The ID she's using to finance these sprees reads "Sandy Bigelow Patterson"... and it belongs to an accounts rep who lives halfway across the U.S.

With only one week to hunt down the con artist before his world implodes, the real Sandy Bigelow Patterson heads south to confront the woman with an all-access pass to his life. And as he attempts to bribe, coax and wrangle her the 2,000 miles to Denver, one easy target will discover just how tough it is to get your name back.

THIEF managed to out-do Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's latest thriller SNITCH, which grossed $13 million since its release on Friday.

ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH took the third spot, hauling in $11 million. Its total now sits at at $35.1 million.

The adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' SAFE HAVEN took the fourth spot with $10.6M, while A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD rounded out the top five, bringing in another $10M.

Rentrak announced the box office rankings for this weekend (Feb. 22-24). Check out the top 12 below:

1	Identity Thief	Universal	$14,064,030	$93,666,560
2	Snitch	Lionsgate	$13,000,000	$13,000,000
3	Escape From Planet Earth	The Weinstein Company	$11,013,000	$35,143,662
4	Safe Haven	Relativity Media	$10,600,000	$48,061,643
5	Good Day To Die Hard, A	20th Century Fox	$10,000,000	$51,802,264
6	Dark Skies	The Weinstein Company	$8,850,000	$8,850,000
7	Silver Linings Playbook	The Weinstein Company	$6,051,000	$107,476,146
8	Warm Bodies	Lionsgate	$4,750,000	$58,168,323
9	Side Effects	Open Road	$3,511,000	$25,253,516
10	Beautiful Creatures	Warner Bros.	$3,410,000	$16,372,265
11	Zero Dark Thirty	Sony	$2,250,000	$91,558,991
12	Argo	Warner Bros.	$1,965,000	$129,791,337