George Clooney's No. 1 American; Lindsay Lohan's No. 2!

Clooney's The American wins Labor Day box-office weekend; Lohan's Machete swings into second place; Drew Barrymore's Going the Distance comes up short

George Clooney ruled. Lindsay Lohan returned. Drew Barrymore made it oh-for-three.

The final (estimated) results from the four-day, Labor Day box-office weekend:

• Clooney's The American ($13.1 million Friday-Sunday; $16.4 million Friday-Monday) needed the grown-up vote to win—and it got it. Nearly 90 percent of the opening-weekend audience was age 25 or older. Since opening last Wednesday, the thriller is at $19.5 million overall—a good great bit of business for a $20 million movie. 

• The American is Clooney's first No. 1 film since forever, if you don't count 2008's Burn After Reading, which was an ensemble film (not to mention a Coen Brothers film), or the Ocean's Eleven movies, which likewise were all-star efforts. 

• Burn After Reading and the Ocean's Eleven movies, by the way, do count, as does the fact that films like Syriana and The Men Who Stare at Goats made money minus CGI, 3-D or capes. So, yes, time to reconsider Clooney's box-office rep.

• "Its a beautiful day in la to have a hit film!!!," Lohan tweeted Sunday. Her Machete ($11.4 million Friday-Sunday; $14 million Friday-Monday) moved up to second in the standings, her best showing since Mean Girls back in 2004.  

• Question: Is Machete really "her Machete," as in Lohan's? No. But if the movie had bombed, she'd sure get the headlines. ("Moviegoers to Lohan Movie: Scram!," perhaps?) So, why not headlnes when it doesn't bomb?  

• As Lohan herself attested, via Twitter, Danny Trejo is the star of Machete.  The veteran character actor and filmmaker Robert Rodriguez were the main draws in a film that dominated the Latino market in big cities—and even in the red-band trailer's beloved Arizona. 

• Barrymore's and Justin Long's Going the Distance ($6.9 million Friday-Sunday; $8.6 million Friday-Monday) came up way short of the romantic-comedy's reputed $32 million budget.

• Going the Distance is Barrymore's third straight underperformer after last year's Everybody's Fine and Whip It, which she directed. 

• Despite its third-place finish, Takers ($10.9 million Friday-Sunday; $13.5 million Friday-Monday) took honors as the Top 10's biggest theater-for-theater hit. After two weekends and a day, it's at $40 million.

• Will Ferrell's and Mark Wahlberg's The Other Guys ($5.3 million Friday-Sunday; $6.7 million Friday-Monday) broke $100 million. 

• Jennifer Aniston's The Switch ($3.1 million Friday-Sunday; $3.9 million Friday-Monday) is out of the Top 10 after two quick weekends. For all the bad press,  the comedy has made good on its reputedly $19 million production budget with a $22.3 million overall gross so far. 

Here's an updated look at the holiday weekend's top-grossing films, per Friday-Monday estimates compiled by Exhibitor Relations:

1. The American, $16.4 milion
2. Machete, $14 million
3. Takers, $13.5 million
4. The Last Exorcism, $8.8 million
5. Going the Distance, $8.6 million
6. The Expendables, $8.5 million
7. The Other Guys, $6.7million
8. Eat Pray Love, $6.3 million
9. Inception, $5.9 million
10. Nanny McPhee Returns, $4.7 million

(Originally published Sept.. 5, 2010, at 11:11 a.m. PT)