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THURSDAY AM: Here are unofficial numbers from my sources for Wednesday’s box office as the holidays continue. The Weinstein Co’s Blue Valentine opened in 4 theaters; the Derek Cianfrance film starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams logged an estimated opening day gross of $47K for a best day location average of $11,750. Sony Pictures Classics’ Another Year debuted in 6 runs:
Top 10
1. Little Fockers (Universal) Week 2 [3,536 Theaters]
Monday $8.4M, Tuesday $7.7M, Wednesday $7.8M, Cume $69M
2. True Grit (Paramount) Week 2 [3,047 Theaters]
Monday $7.1M, Tuesday $6.1M, Wednesday $6.2M, Cume $55.3M
3. Tron: Legacy 3D (Disney) Week 2 [3,451 Theaters]
Monday $6.3M, Tuesday $6.3M, Wednesday $6.1M, Cume $106.1M
4. Yogi Bear 3D (Warner Bros) Week 2 [3,515 Theaters]
Monday $3.5M, Tuesday $4.5M, Wednesday $4.5M, Cume $48.4M
5. Tangled 3D (Disney) Week 5 [2,582 Theaters]
Monday $3.2M, Tuesday $3.6M, Wednesday $3.7M, Cume $154.2M
6. Chronicles Of Narnia 3D (Fox) Week 3 [3,350 Theaters]
Monday $3.5M, Tuesday $3.7M, Wednesday $3.3M, Cume $73.1M
7. Gulliver’s Travels 3D (Fox) Week 1 [2,546 Theaters]
Monday $2.6M,Tuesday $2.9M, Wednesday $3.1M, Cume $15M
8. Black Swan ( Fox Searchlight) Week 4 [1,466 Theaters]
Monday $2.4M, Tuesday $2.4M, Wednesday $2.5M, Cume $36.2M
9. The Fighter (Relativity/Paramount) Week 3 [2,511 Theaters]
Monday $2.4M, Tuesday $2.2M, Wednesday $2.4M, Cume $33.8M
10. The Tourist (GK Films/Sony) Week 3 [2,756 Theaters]
Monday $1.8M, Tuesday $1.7M, Wednesday $1.7M, Cume $46.1M
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Holy crap, look at all the 3D in the top 10. Rarely is it done properly, looing forward to this fad fading.
Tangled is the only 3-D movie doing well. Yogi, Narnia, and Gulliver aren’t setting the box office on fire. Maybe people are getting sick of paying premium prices to see bad movies with 3-D tacked on.
It’s also probably lost most of its 3D screens by now, hasn’t it? With all those other movies out?
Hey-BP – you should actually see the movies you make comments about. Yogi is a live action movie (yes, true stereo cameras were used. No fake post “tack on” 3D) Yogi and BooBoo are CGI-3D. This is the way a live action 3D movie is supposed to be made. Go see it!
FYI, all-CGI movies, like Tangled, are always 3D done properly. They just render the 3D CGI for left and right angles, and it’s the real deal. Fake 3D conversions only apply to live action footage.
I thought Black Swan was so completely overrated, not a bad movie but certainly not one of the best movies of the year. I am shocked that How do you know can’t even get into the top 10.
Is it me or is holiday week just not as big as in past years — where every day is a saturday…
Me too. I liked Black Swan, didn’t “love” it. Go True Grit!
why are you shocked how do you know isnt in the top 10? it fell out its 2nd weekend.
Part of Black Swan’s appeal is the horserace aspect. By next Monday, it’s a lower-budget movie that might be running even with the totals for The Tourist (as that one fades), and by Oscar time it might have racked up more than Yogi Bear… maybe.
Considering how not-so-gooder the live concert, cable TV, and video game sectors seem to be doing this year (as I understand it), I think that it’s actually promising to see that movie theaters are doing as well as they are this season.
3D is here to stay. Embrace it Grandpa Chris H. The next generation of filmgoers have (kids) and now they’re accustomed to it. Can’t wait for Scorsese’s Hugo Cabaret 3D. I’m sure the Haters will stfu when that is a hit.
They’ll probably ‘stfu’ when Hollywood starts respecting the audience enough to always do it right (Tron, Avatar) instead of passing off post-conversion crap (Narnia, Alice).
I don’t think Chris’s comment alludes to his/her age but a love of good movies. The point is not that 3D is a young versus old — it’s a good versus bad. Why should we be forced to pay extra for something that is not worth the extra $? Most movies are worse off for the technology, not better. Very few employ it to great effect. I was happy to hear some Directors — namely Favreau and “Cowboys vs Aliens” — are winning the battle against the studios and will not be using 3D for the sake of the technology.
3d down the road might be awesome, but right now, it’s just a douch-e way for the studios to pillage the mainstream. just like blu-ray. just like audiophile.
scam. will. backfire.
3D is a fad. It has always been. “Chris” is too young, apparently, to realize Hollywood has tried utilizing it over and over throughout the decades, whether it was the 50s or 80s. It failed every time. “Grandpa” has already seen it, doofus.
The success of AVATAR has been offset by the multitude of crap 3D movies that audiences are sick of. Gullivers, Yogi — audiences are starting to revolt over paying a higher ticket premium for crap.
3D isn’t going anywhere at home either. I can see it still being used for big-ticket movies, but they’re already worn out their welcome over the last six months. Audiences are down sharply from a year ago — flooding the market with 3D and inflated ticket prices is only going to keep it going.
How great is it that the so-called ‘hit’ The Fighter is getting out grossed by a ballet movie in Black Swan? Probably not too many Hollywood suits thought that would happen! Refreshing to see Aronofsky’s original, envelope-pushing movie with Natalie Portman (damn, where has she been all these years?) do better than a cliche-riddled, uneven, predictable, made-for-TV boxing movie such as The Fighter a k a Rocky Goes to Beantown. For the life of me I don’t know why The Fighter didn’t do better, seeing as how ads for it were plastered on the boob tube, in theaters, in sports media, on news magazine shows, every damn where. I’m sure the financiers of the movie are happy it is making some OK coin, but really, how can it not given all of the over-the-top promotion it got? It’s like being surprised to see a high school kid who gets tutored weekly by a Nobel prize winner in math snag a scholarship to Harvard or MIT. Still, to get beat by a dark ballet movie gives me hope that the American viewing public has a modicum of taste, that good movies aren’t dead after all. Black Swan and The King’s Speech should be well represented during the Oscars, too, along with Inception, True Grit, The Kids Are Alright and Toy Story III. At least if there’s any fairness to the universe these movies deservedly will get the Oscar tattoo of critical acclaim. That said, Christian Bale WAS good in the otherwise forgettable Fighter.
Tron’s Xmas weekend 3-day total: 19.1 mil
Tron’s Mon-Tue-Wed total: 18.7
That’s pretty consistent and impressive. Someone’s liking this thing.
By point of comparison:
True Grit: 24.5/19.5
Fockers: 30.8/23.9
Looks like more than just fanboys are hitting T:L. Those kinda numbers indicate that family audiences are finding it too. Love it or hate, people have been going.
Hardly surprising that FOCKERS and GRIT fell off a bit after their opening weekends, while TRON was a little more consistent in its second. Doesn’t change the fact that TRON fell over 50 percent from its disappointing opening weekend.
Some people will do anything to convince themselves that their favorite movies are big successes when all reasonable evidence indicates otherwise…
calm down. they’re $2.4 million apart. why are you so butthurt over a dumb movie?
Bale is always great, Bale is a F**kin God.
“Let the bloody Amateurs appease the Masses, I make art for F**king Professionals” The Book of Bale; Chapter 3 verse 12
amen brother! hail to the bale!
As if black swan isn’t a cliched melodrama
Seriously, do you actually think that it’s not OBVIOUS to everybody here that you’re a publicist? Learn to write like an average human being instead of a mannered hack publicist and maybe your plants on sites like these would be less glaringly obvious, okay?
Of all the sheeple actually paying money to see “Little Fockers,” one of the worst films of this or any other year, I’m curious as to how many are aware of its awfulness before seeing it or just blissfully unaware. Hopefully they don’t know, but if they really DO know, our country is doomed — but that would also explain the popularity of Sarah Palin, Miley Cyrus and “professional” wrestling.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz you’re so boring dude
They know it’s bad. They just don’t care. It’s a happy meal. It’s fast food. It’s a brand. They’re buying Meet The Parents again and again because that made them chuckle once upon a time.
What LA and NYC don’t seem to realize is the rest of the country wants mindless entertainment they can take their kids to so they can get out of the house and not have to do something remotely educational with them.
They like seeing the same thing over and over again because it makes them feel warm and fuzzy inside.
They also like seeing bad movies because they allow them to have that moment of superiority where they comment on how awful the movies are out there, how they suck and how they could do better if they quit their day job and made a movie. It’s like a victory slap against the smart people to them. I’m related to people like this. They love talking about how bad the movies are.
When I tell them to go see Black Swan, Inception, 127 Hours, Social Network, True Grit they don’t want to see those movies because they don’t know what they are about or they seem too smart for them enjoy.
It’s like the other day I watching TV with my friend and he got all pissed off about there being a Yogi Bear movie. I turned to him and said, “you realize they aren’t making Yogi Bear for you, don’t you?”.
If the thought of people seeing Little Fockers makes you mad, take a deep breath and realize they are not making it for you. They’re making it for the moviegoers who don’t want to see a smart movie that intimidates them. They’re making it for the moviegoers who want a brand they recognize and know what they are getting before they set foot in the door.
If they didn’t go see Little Fockers I can guarantee you they wouldn’t be flocking to Black Swan.
Thank you for not making fun of the point and giving a thoughtful answer. Unlike some of the uber smugs here (though if truth be told some are damn funny). I read the whole thing.
Here’s to more excitement in 2011. Cheers!
Very thoughtful post and spot on about why most people outside of NYC and LA go to movies like “The Little Fockers.” I live in LA and had to fight my family in Florida over this or “The Fighter.” I won, and we all really enjoyed the movie. But it was a rare victory for me, I assure you. The only way I got them to go was by telling them it was like “Rocky.”
BLACK SWAN is going to be this year’s MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING… tons of people will claim to love it now only to turn their backs on it in a few years. “What were we thinking?”
Um, no. That would be The King’s Speech, the most pompous and overrated film this season.
You neglected to add “…according to ME.”
TKS was thoroughly satisfying. The sold out theatre I was in were all in agreement. Lots of clapping and smiley faces. Sorry it didn’t move your grinchy heart. Poor dear.
Everything’s looking consistent … consistently disappointing. Last year at this time, “Alvin and the Chipmunks the Squeakuel” and “Sherlock Holmes” were making $10-12 million a day, and “Avatar” was doing $18 million a day.
By Day 12, “Monsters vs Aliens” had grossed about 12% more than “Tron” despite fewer 3-D theaters and lower ticket prices. So, yeah, if “Monsters vs Aliens” and “Chicken Little” are the yardsticks against which Disney wants to measure “Tron Legacy,” it’s a success. And if you measure the health of the overall box-office by the top three films grossing 50% less than the top three at the same time last year, everything’s super groovy.
Little Fockers was no where near as bad as Tron. What a waste of money.
I’ll be glad when this color fad fades. I hope to have new dentures by then!
“original, envelope-pushing movie”
No… it’s like someone saw Repulsion and said “Ya know, this would be so much better if we changed it to the ballet world”.
It’s certainly well-crafted, but I agree that The Black Swan is pretty over-rated. BTW, except for Christian Bale and Amy Adams, so is The Fighter.
The Little Fockers 1st? God has forsaken us.
Go Little Fockers!
If there is one thing I hate, it’s 3D. I’ve only seen one movie in 3D, Toy Story 3, and it was good, but who cares if it comes out of the screen?
Yeah I agree – Tron is quietly getting on with making some money. On top of that, I actually have seen it now and it really makes good use of 3D and as action / sci fi styled movies go it’s above average. The early word/ gossip re the romantic lead is groundless – he’s fine – and the whole thing looks stunning. Of course its hoaky – I mean – have you seen the original? The acting is better than the original, the script is better than the original too. Mind – no sequels please – really doesn’t need it.
Atleast people who go see Little Fockers are atleast aware it is awful and still pay and see it.
A couple of these so called Oscar contender with their 90% Rotten Tomatoes scores from critics and scores of critics awards and Golden Globe nominations are sneak attack grenades to most movie goers who were stupid enough to fall for the reviews and pay to see them at the theater.
Why propagate these false numbers when ticket sales are the only true benchmark. If you break the trend and start just listing ticket sales others will pick up and run with it. Enhanced 3D, d-bag err d-box seats and increased prices in large markets skew the true figures.
The “true figures”?
Do you know what ticket sales mean to a studio? NOTHING.
You can’t pay for p&a with ticket sale figures.
Dollars are all that matters.
This is a BUSINESS.
And one you’re clearly not in.
Oh yeah, people are liking Tron just as they liked Superman Returns. Disney will probably keep it on release for the next eight months just so it squeaks past $200m so the execs can save face – just as Warners did with Superman Returns. Face it, Tron has been an embarassment and Disney will sweep this franchise under the carpet asap.
I predict Tron Nerd rage ready to explode.
5…4…3…2…1…
Really? Are we really bringing up a movie that is 4 years old? Superman Returns? Looks like that crappy blogs posters are spreading, even after 4 years.
TRON is not a smash, but in the end it will make a profit. Not a lot, but at least they will. Not sure it warrants a sequel though.
The fighter is doing fine. A solid double. Black swan is better. But with a 27 million Budget fighter will turn a profit, which today is about all you can ask. Both will be major players during awards. The biggest surprise is True Grit. I doubt many thought a Coen Brothers remake would play this strong and out perform these other films that are doing better with the awards. Still can’t believe Golden Globes did not think much of this. True Grit is kicking Swan and fighter at box office. Still all are playing well.
I think “True Grit” will be on top by the end of the weekend. Where it belongs.
Why would anyone think tron is flopping when the first one didn’t even make what tron legacy did opening weekend?
How do u know is worth watching I wonder if it got downgraded to a few showings a day?
Are you seriously comparing TRON: LEGACY’s box office to that of the original that opened nearly three decades ago??
When is True Grit opening in the UK?
I think its pretty much been proven that moviegoers will pay for 3D when it is done well and the movie is worth seeing on a big screen.
really looking forward to when tron makes more money than u guys hoped,so I can watch u try again with the next big tent pole movie,the way u guys moan about it,it’s as if its a new tax or something.
The only Focker film I want to see is the one suggested by Blythe Danner: “Mother Fockers.” Put the focus on the Barbra and Blythe characters and you will have my movie dollars.
whelwatduyukno……
narnia #3 international gross:
Domestic: $73,166,297 28.2%
+ Foreign: $186,047,072 71.8%
= Worldwide: $259,213,369