Little Fockers and True Grit continue to rake in the cash: here's our weekend box office round-up...
One good thing about a weekend without any new movies is that it gives people a chance to catch up on older releases that they might have missed. For example, this weekend, every movie in the top ten (aside from the first three) all made improvements in box office results. The top three, while suffering slightly from last weekend, still managed to hang on to a great deal of their attendance. I guess when nothing's out, you see what's there.
For the second week in a row, the top ten is pretty much the same, aside from a few spot switches. Little Fockers, True Grit, and Tron Legacy still take up the top three spots. Fockers brought in 26.3 million bucks, True Grit was slightly behind it with $24.5 million. Rounding out the top three is Tron Legacy with $18.3 million.
The first pair of position switches happened between Yogi Bear and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader. Last week's fifth movie, Yogi Bear jumps up a spot to fourth on the strength of $13 million (up 65 percent from last week). Down to fifth from fourth last weekend was The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader, which was up ten percent, but took in only $10.5 million.
The second spot swap happened between Tangled and The Fighter. Tangled took in $10.008 million, just barely topping The Fighter's $10 million flat. That's three movies in a row, all of which took in about 10 million bones. Last week, Tangled was seventh and The Fighter was sixth.
Settled at home in eighth spot is Gulliver's Travels. It did take in more this weekend, with a box office gross of 9.1 million bucks, but its two-week total is only $27.2 million. That's nothing compared to pretty much every film released within that window. The only downside of this film's failure is that it looks bad on supporting player, Jason Segel, whose name is prominent on the poster (in spite of the presence of Jack Black's full length torso). Even adding 543 screenings hasn't helped Gulliver travel into profitable territory.
In ninth is the creeptastic Black Swan. Swan took in $8.45 million this weekend, which is up slightly from last weekend. It has picked up $47.3 million at the box office, and is proving to be quite profitable in spite of taking forever to reach any kind of nationwide release schedule.
Our final spot swap was between last week's last film to make the top ten, The Tourist, and the eleventh film, The King's Speech. Last week, The King's Speech was just barely out of the top ten. This time, thanks to $7.6 million at the multiplexes, it has pushed The Tourist ($6.8 million) off the box office cliff, despite being in only 700 theaters versus The Tourist's 2756 screens.
Out next weekend is another weird slate of films. Only one of these, Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman in Season Of The Witch, is a new release. The other two are expanding limited releases. One of these, Country Strong with Gwyneth Paltrow, looks to be the worst thing ever. The other, the weird black comedy I Love You Phillip Morris, just might be Jim Carrey's best work ever according to DoG's positive review (found here).