'One Direction' takes over weekend box office with $17 million 1 (UPI) -- Boy band fans rejoice -- "One Direction: This is Us" was No. 1 at the box office during the weekend with $17 million. "Lee Daniels' The Butler," with Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey, was second with $14.742 million. All studio estimates of gross North American receipts are via Box Office Mojo. "We're the Millers" was third with $12.61 million; "Planes" fourth with $7.756 million; "Instructions Not Included" fifth with $7.5 million; "Elysium" sixth with $6.3 million; "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones" seventh with $5.2 million; "The World's End" eighth with $4.759 million; "Getaway (2013) " ninth with $4.505 million. And "Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters" was 10th with $4.425 million.