Box Office Weekend 1/2 - New Years Results

[AndyDursin]

TRUE GRIT is already the highest grossing film for the Coen Brothers in their careers.

NARNIA held up surprisingly well after a bad opening.

TRON looks on target to do $150 mil domestic. I fail to see how that is a flop considering the original movie's rep.

LITTLE FOCKERS shamefully has made $100 mil but will fail to match its predecessors.

1. True Grit (Paramount) Week 2 [3,083 Theaters]
Friday $8.2M, Estimated Weekend $24M, Estimated Cume $86M
2. Little Fockers (Universal) Week 2 [3,554 Theaters]
Friday $8M, Estimated Weekend $24M, Estimated Cume $104M
3. Tron: Legacy 3D (Disney) Week 2 [3,365 Theaters]
Friday $5M, Estimated Weekend $16M, Estimated Cume $129M
4. Yogi Bear 3D (Warner Bros) Week 2 [3,515 Theaters]
Friday $4M, Estimated Weekend $11M, Estimated Cume $65M
5. Chronicles Of Narnia 3D (Fox) Week 3 [2,948 Theaters]
Friday $3.5M, Estimated Weekend $10.5M, Cume $87M
6. Tangled 3D (Disney) Week 5 [2,582 Theaters]
Friday $3.3M, Estimated Weekend $9M, Estimated Cume $167M
7. Gulliver's Travels 3D (Fox) Week 1 [3,089 Theaters]
Friday $2.9M, Estimated Weekend $10M, Estimated Cume $28M
8. The Fighter (Relativity/Paramount) Week 3 [2,534 Theaters]
Friday $2.6M, Estimated Weekend $8.5M, Cume $45M
9. The King's Speech (Weinstein Co) Week 3 [700 Theaters]
Friday $2.4M, Estimated Weekend $7.5M, Estimated Cume $22.7M
10. The Tourist (GK Films/Sony) Week 3 [2,756 Theaters]
Friday $1.9M, Estimated Weekend $6M, Cume $54M

[Monterey Jack]

Good for the Coens. They deserve a big hit.

[AndyDursin]

Good for the Coens. They deserve a big hit.

No fooling! If this film gets some Oscar noms, it has the potential to be very big indeed. Always nice to see a western do well also!

[Monterey Jack]

Good for the Coens. They deserve a big hit.

No fooling! If this film gets some Oscar noms, it has the potential to be very big indeed. Always nice to see a western do well also!

People always talk about the Western being "dead", but make ones that people want to see, and they'll see 'em. It helps that True Grit has a combination of Oscar buzz, bankable lead actors (Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon) and is a remake of a John Wayne film beloved by a previous generation to goose grosses. Jonah Hex was a miserable box office failure not because it was a Western, but because it SUCKED from top to bottom (and it's funny to realize Josh Brolin is in both films). It'd be nice to see a comeback for the genre like we sort of had in the early 90's following Dances With Wolves. I love Westerns, and I think it's a shame an entire generation of filmgoers is growing up without seeing any Western released in a theater.

[AndyDursin]

Full numbers...good see TRON and NARNIA holding up well...

TW LW Title Studio Weekend Gross % Change Theater Count / Change Average Total Gross Budget* Week #

1 1 Little Fockers Uni. $26,300,000 -14.7% 3,554 +18 $7,400 $103,191,000 $100 2
2 2 True Grit (2010) Par. $24,500,000 -1.4% 3,083 +36 $7,947 $86,765,000 $38 2
3 3 Tron Legacy BV $18,306,000 -4.4% 3,365 -86 $5,440 $130,854,000 $170 3
4 5 Yogi Bear WB $13,000,000 +65.9% 3,515 - $3,698 $66,130,000 $80 3
5 4 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Fox $10,500,000 +10.8% 2,948 -402 $3,562 $87,141,000 $155 4
6 7 Tangled BV $10,008,000 +55.7% 2,582 - $3,876 $168,027,000 $260 6

7 6 The Fighter Par. $10,000,000 +31.5% 2,534 +23 $3,946 $46,389,000 $25 4
8 8 Gulliver's Travels Fox $9,100,000 +44.3% 3,089 +543 $2,946 $27,229,000 - 2
9 9 Black Swan FoxS $8,450,000 +35.1% 1,553 +87 $5,441 $47,370,000 $13 5
10 11 The King's Speech Wein. $7,649,000 +70.1% 700 - $10,927 $22,807,000 $15 6
11 10 The Tourist Sony $6,800,000 +25.9% 2,756 - $2,467 $54,825,000 $100 4
12 12 How Do You Know Sony $4,600,000 +29.6% 2,483 - $1,853 $25,085,000 $120 3

[mkaroly]

NARNIA still has a long way to go before making back its budget.

[Monterey Jack]

Also nice to see Tangled grossing significantly more than Disney's last two animated times at bat (Bolt, Princess & The Frog), both of which struggled to make it across the $100 million mark.

[AndyDursin]

NARNIA still has a long way to go before making back its budget.

Keep in mind though that it's doing very well internationally...I think it's close to $300 million with the foreign being counted, so it's going to turn a profit (and then add in the video sales).

If it can stay afloat and over $100 million domestic, it's entirely possible they might make another one after all. Certainly it rebounded well, if not spectacularly, after a tepid start.

Also nice to see Tangled grossing significantly more than Disney's last two animated times at bat (Bolt, Princess & The Frog), both of which struggled to make it across the $100 million mark.

I didn't see it, the ads turned me off, making it look like another Dreamworks cartoon with a wisecracking hero and fart jokes. I realize people liked it a lot, but I wish they had kept on the original idea and not done this "reworking" of the concept to lure in young boys (not to mention junked most of Menken's songs). Still I will see it on video.

It's definitely done well, but it cost a fortune too.I wish it had done even better since pretty soon all we're going to be seeing are Disney non-musical animated movies aimed at little boys -- at least that's what John Lasseter and the Pixar people want.

http://www.inflexwetrust.com/2010/11/22 ... eyre-icky/

[Monterey Jack]

Also nice to see Tangled grossing significantly more than Disney's last two animated times at bat (Bolt, Princess & The Frog), both of which struggled to make it across the $100 million mark.

I didn't see it, the ads turned me off, making it look like another Dreamworks cartoon with a wisecracking hero and fart jokes.

The film's advertising campaign was HORRIBLE and did NOT accurately convey the film's tone in the slightest. I realize Disney was terrified to lose an audience of young boys, but the movie itself is not nearly as antic, slapsticky, and Dreamworks-esque (no poop jokes) as the trailers made it out to be. Give it a shot while it's still in theaters (there's a sequence involving thousands of floating paper lanterns that makes the 3D surcharge totally worth it). It's far closer in tone to Beauty And The Beast or Little Mermaid than anything Disney's done in years.