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New Records For ‘Contraband’ And ‘Beauty & Beast 3D’ On MLK Holiday; No Slump Yet

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Sunday January 15, 2012 @ 9:51am PSTTags: Beauty and the Beast 3D, Contraband, Hollywood box office

Jan. 13-16 Weekend Actuals, Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday

1. Contraband (Universal) NEW [2,863 Theaters] R
Friday $8.6M, Saturday $8.5M, Sunday $7.2M, Monday $4.2M, 3-Day Weekend $24.3M, 4-Day Holiday $28.5M

2. Beauty And The Beast 3D (Disney) NEW [2,625 Theaters] G
Friday $5.6M, Saturday $6.7M, Sunday $5.4M, Monday $4.5M, 3-Day Weekend $17.8M, 4-Day Holiday $22.2M

3. Mission: Impossible 4 (Paramount) Week 5 [3,346 Theaters] PG13
Friday $3.3M, Saturday $4.8M, Sunday $3.7M, Monday $2.5M, 3-Day Weekend $11.7M, 4-Day Holiday $14.2M, Cume $189.4M

4. Joyful Noise (Warner Bros) NEW [2,863 Theaters] PG13
Friday $3.3M, Saturday $4.6M, Sunday $3.4M, Monday $2.6M, 3-Day Weekend $11.2M, 4-Day Holiday $13.8M

5. Sherlock Holmes 2 (Warner Bros) Week 5 [3,155 Theater] PG13
Friday $2.4M, Saturday $3.5M, Sunday $2.7M, Monday $1.9M, 3-Day Weekend $8.6M, 4-Day Holiday $10.4M (-24%), Cume $172M

6. The Devil Inside (Paramount) Week 2 [2,551 Theaters] R
Friday $2.7M, Saturday $3.1M, Sunday $2.2M, Monday $1M, 3-Day Weekend $8M, 4-Day Holiday $9M (-73%), Cume $47.4M

7. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Sony) Week 4 [2,674 Theaters] R
Friday $1.9M, Saturday $2.6M, Sunday $2.1M, Monday $1.4M, 3-Day Weekend $6.7M, 4-Day Holiday $8M (-29%), Cume $89.2M

8. Alvin & The Chipmunks 3 (Fox) Week 5 [2,849 Theaters] G
Friday $1.2M, Saturday $2.7M, Sunday $2.1M, Monday $2.1M, 3-Day Weekend $5.9M, 4-Day Holiday $8M (-16%), Cume $121M

9. We Bought a Zoo  (Fox) Week 4 [2,909 Theaters] PG
Friday $1.4M, Saturday $2.3M, Sunday $1.9M, Monday $1.8M, 3-Day Weekend $5.6M, 4-Day Holiday $7.4M (-11%), Cume $65.9M

10. War Horse (DreamWorks/Disney) Week 4 [2,856 Theaters] PG13
Friday $1.6M, Saturday $2.4M, Sunday $1.9M, Monday $1.4M, 3-Day Weekend $5.9M, 4-Day Holiday $7.4M (-15%), Cume $67.5M

SUNDAY AM, 3RD UPDATE: I’m feeling fluish but big numbers are making this Martin Luther King 4-day holiday weekend look healthy. The most important news is that there’s no sign of a 2012 slump — yet. Hollywood is very encouraged by the new year’s North American grosses so far. Of course NFL playoffs siphoned off Saturday’s audience after Friday overperformed. “Everything got a little dinged by the football games,” one studio exec emailed me. And that should happen again today. No. 1 continues to be Universal’s Contraband which is outperforming by nearly 25% what even the studio thought it would do. It’s Working Title’s biggest opening ever — which is saying a lot given recent downward trends. And this generic-looking pic further establishes producer Mark Wahlberg as an action star. Also setting records is Disney’s Beauty And The Beast 3D which continues to draw well day and night. “This is likely to become our highest January opening ever, and will by far become the biggest animated January release of all time,” a Disney exec told me last night. It doesn’t appear as if Disney selling the 3D Blu-ray in stores affected theatrical grosses one bit. The toon re-release earned an ’A+’ CinemaScore from audiences who also gave an ‘A-” to Contraband and Warner Bros’ Joyful Noise also exceeding low expectations. One note for you snarksters: Paramount’s The Devil Inside, which took top honors last weekend, fell a big -77% week to week because of word-of-mouth related to that ’F’ CinemaScore. I’m updating numbers now. Full analysis coming:

1. Contraband (Universal) NEW [2,863 Theaters]
Friday $8.7M, Saturday $8.6M, 3-Day Weekend $24.1M, 4-Day Holiday $28.5M

2. Beauty And The Beast 3D (Disney) NEW [2,625 Theaters]
Friday $5.6M, Saturday $6.7M, 3-Day Weekend $18.5M, 4-Day Holiday $24.7M

3. Mission: Impossible 4 (Paramount) Week 5 [3,346 Theaters]
Friday $3.2M, Saturday $4.7M, 3-Day Weekend $11.5M, 4-Day Holiday $14M, Est Cume $189.2M

4. Joyful Noise (Warner Bros) NEW [2,863 Theaters]
Friday $3.8M, Saturday $4.5M, 1-Day Weekend $11.3M, 4-Day Holiday $13.8M

5. Sherlock Holmes 2 (Warner Bros) Week 5 [3,155 Theater]
Friday $2.5M, Saturday $3.5M, 3-Day Weekend $8.4M, 4-Day Holiday $10.6M, Est Cume $172.2M

6. The Devil Inside (Paramount) Week 2 [2,551 Theaters]
Friday $2.7M, Saturday $3.1M, 3-Day Weekend $7.9M (-77%), 4-Day Holiday $9M, Est Cume $47.3M

7. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Sony) Week 4 [2,674 Theaters]
Friday $2.1M, Saturday $2.6M, 3-Day Weekend $6.8M, 4-Day Holiday $8.3M, Est Cume $90M

8. Alvin & The Chipmunks 3 (Fox) Week 5 [2,849 Theaters]
Friday $1.1M, Saturday $2.6M, 3-Day Weekend $5.8M, 4-Day Holiday $7.3M, Est Cume $118.7M

9. War Horse (DreamWorks/Disney) Week 4 [2,856 Theaters]
Friday $1.6M, Saturday $2.3M, 3-Day Weekend $5.6M, 4-Day Holiday $6.8M, Est Cume $67M

10. The Iron Lady (Weinstein Co) Week 3 [802 Theaters]
Friday $1.5M, Saturday $2.2M, 3-Day Weekend $5.3M, 4-Day Holiday $6.4M, Est Cume $7M

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Disney Vs Exhibitors Over Fact That ‘Beauty & Beast 3D’ DVD Already Selling In Stores

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Friday January 13, 2012 @ 9:12am PSTTags: Beauty and the Beast 3D, Disney

EXCLUSIVE: Rival studios tell me that exhibitors are quietly furious that Disney has begun selling the Beauty And The Beast 3D Blu-Ray DVD at Target and Walmart and other retailers without fanfare at the same time the film goes into theaters today. (Walmart lists the release date as October 2011 of this ‘Diamond Edition’ and has already discounted it from $49.99 to $34.96.) As one rival studio exec tells me, “They think what Disney did is very underhanded by sneaking it into stores.” By contrast, last year’s Disney’s The Lion King 3D Blu-ray DVD didn’t go on sale until two weeks after the threatrical release. ”Is Beauty And The Beast 3D Blu-Ray going to be the experiment that closes the windows for sure?” one rival studio exec asks me. “If so the exhibitors have truly lost a major battle.”

Disney in its defense points out that the vast majority of families don’t have 3D televisions yet so the DVD won’t affect theatrical gross. “We’ve talked to all of our partners in exhibition about this and have made no secret about the Beauty And The Beast 3D Blu-Ray DVD being available. In fact there are multiple exhibition partners that are tying promotions into the 3D Blu-ray being available, like AMC and Regal.” Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Beauty And The Beast 3D’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday November 21, 2011 @ 8:40pm PSTTags: 3D, 3D Conversion, Beauty and the Beast, Beauty and the Beast 3D, Disney, Pixar, Titanic 3D

Last week saw the unveiling of the trailer for James Cameron’s Titanic 3D which opens April 6. On Monday Disney released the new trailer for Beauty and the Beast 3D, the first of a handful of Disney/Pixar classics to be retrofitted for 3D. Alas, the trailer here is only 2D, and … Read More »

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