Box office report: 'Identity Thief' steals the No. 1 spot from 'Snitch' with $14.1 million

Box office report: 'Identity Thief' steals the No. 1 spot from 'Snitch' with $14.1 million

"The biggest hit of 2013, Universal’s $35 million comedy Identity Thief, returned to the top spot at the box office in its third weekend. The Melissa McCarthy/Jason Bateman vehicle dipped 41 percent to $14.1 million, lifting its total to a robust $93.7 million. Were Identity Thief not holding so well, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson’s latest action thriller Snitch could have won the weekend. As things stand, though, it will have to settle for second place with a not-half-bad $13 million. Just outside the Top 5, Weinstein/Dimension’s extraterrestrial horror film Dark Skies fizzled on opening weekend with only $8.9 million from 2,313 theaters. Fortunately for the team behind the Keri Russell thriller, which earned a weak C+ CinemaScore grade, it cost only $3.5 million to produce."