Box Office: January 12-14: Screen Gems/Sony's Stomp The Yard kicked off the holiday weekend with an appeal way beyond African-American youth and scored a surprise #1. Fox's four-quadrant hit Night At the Museum moved down to #2 for the first time since it opened four weeks ago. For Top 10 analysis/numbers see: 'Stomp The Yard' Steps Up to Surprise #1; Justin Timberlake's #8 'Alpha Dog' Yelps
Also, here are weekend total for some other Oscar-buzzed films:
Blood Diamond $2.5 mil (cume $47.8 mil)
Pan's Labyrinth $2 mil (cume $4.2 mil)
Happy Feet $2 mil (cume $188.2 mil)
Notes on a Scandal $1.6 mil (cume $4.1 mil)
The Queen $1.1 mil (cume $31.5 mil)
Letters From Iwo Jima $375K (cume $884K)