3/07/10 Box Office Results: Crowds Dive Down Burton’s Rabbit Hole

Tim Burton’s trippy live-action take on Lewis Carroll’s classic novels, Alice in Wonderland, premiered at #1 with a record-breaking $116.3 million domestic, $210.3 million worldwide gross. In addition to far surpassing director Burton’s previous weekend all-time grosser, 2005’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Wonderland became the biggest opening of all time for a non-sequel movie in the States. Converted to 3D after being filmed in 2D, the movie made 70% of its killings from the red-and-blue glasses. Showing on 3,728 screens, Friday’s intake was a whopping $41 million. Nowhere near the $35 million three-day overall I was predicting. Wonderland is over halfway to making back the $200 million budget Disney gave Burton to make it. However this unsettled many critics (including yours truly) as well. The majority claimed the 2010 imagining boosted style over substance.

In a land outside of your local Alice screenings, Antoine Fuqua’s (Training Day) latest Brooklyn’s Finest, first debuting at the Sundance Film Festival over a year ago, opened to mostly dismissal reviews, earning a 36% on Rotten Tomatoes. The gritty cop drama, following the lives of three New York police officers during a week-long drug affair, started off with $13.5 million. The lowest debut for a Fuqua picture, Brooklyn’s Finest may have only been placed in a bad weekend. I mean between a coked-up cop thriller and a coked-up Disney movie, which would you pick to see?

Shutter Island dropped two spots and 41.3% to third place, bringing in another $13.3 million. Martin Scorsese’s mind-bender has a total of $95.8 million in three weeks. Kevin Smith’s Cop Out, a movie no one I know has seen yet has still managed to nab a spot in the top five two weekends in a row, grossed $9.1 million, falling 49.8% from last Sunday’s tally. James Cameron’s Avatar closes us out with $7.7 million at #5, a domestic haul of $720.2 million in 12 weeks.

Out of the top five-

Oscar-nominated animated feature The Secret of Kells debuted with $40,000 on one screen.

Here are the box office results according to studio estimates Sunday-

1. Alice in Wonderland (2010)…$116.3 million
2. Brooklyn’s Finest…$13.5 million
3. Shutter Island…$13.3 million
4. Cop Out…$9.1 million
5. Avatar…$7.7 million
6. The Crazies (2010)…$7 million
7. Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief…$5.1 million
8. Valentine’s Day…$4.3 million
9. Crazy Heart…$3.4 million
10. Dear John…$2.9 million

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3/01/10 Box Office Results: ‘Shutter Island’ Craziness Tops Romero

Posted by Nick Ondras on February 28, 2010 at 9:33 pm

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Staying at #1 for a second weekend, Martin Scorsese’s psychological thriller Shutter Island wasn’t hit by the wave of Cop Out or The Crazies. It fell 45.9% and grossed an estimated $22.2 million, bringing its total to $75.1 million in ten days. Not far off from the $80 million budget Paramount gifted to make the film. Here in the northeast snow hit pretty bad this Friday, however I still made it out to the movie theater and apparently so did a lot of people. Due to great word-of-mouth yet for some reason only fair reviews of Scorsese’s latest, about two U.S. Marshalls sent to an insane asylum to locate a missing inmate, Shutter Island exceeded studio expectations these past three days.

Debuting in wide release this weekend were two movies: Cop Out and The Crazies. While I predicted Crazies would top Kevin Smith’s latest the box office results proved me wrong. Both films on Friday made $5.9 million, however by Sunday Cop Out took second place with $18.6 million. Though Smith only served as director of the project, the flick had the highest opening weekend ever for any one of his films. This could be due to the unexpected controversy over Smith being described as “too fat to fly” on a Southwest Airline plane, and then later booted off, or it could be due to Cop Out’s being the most commercial Smith movie. About two police officers en route to find a missing baseball card, the comedy surpassed Smith’s previous work Zack and Miri Make a Porno’s first admission of $10.1 million in October 2008. Critics didn’t help the movie’s total too much, however. Cop Out finished on Friday with a rotten rating of 20% on site Rotten Tomatoes.

Breck Eisner’s remake of George A. Romero’s horror The Crazies was also introduced this weekend. The revival, about a government’s accidental spreading of a lethal war contaminant, managed $16.5 million at #3. This opening gross didn’t beat director Eisner’s last effort Sahara, probably due to the fact that the former had a rating of PG-13 with recognizable stars while Crazies held a restricted tag and starred no one as big as Matthew McConaughey. Although this flick earned itself a fresh 71% on Rotten Tomatoes; Chicago Tribune critic Michael Phillips even went as far as to calling it “better than the original”. Crazies was unable to overcome last February’s horror reboot Friday the 13^th’s opening haul of $40.6 million. But to be fair nobody called that one making as much as it did.

James Cameron’s massive success Avatar dropped only 13.8% to fourth place with $14 million, still in the top five after 11 weeks in release. Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief brings us out at #5 this weekend with $9.8 million. The kiddie flick’s total is up to $71.2 million in three weeks.

Out of the top five-

Jacques Audiard’s French gangster fiasco A Prophet (Un prophète), nominated for best foreign film at next week’s Oscars, started off on nine screens and grossed $170,000, a per screen average of $18,900.
Adam Kane’s thriller Formosa Betrayed starring James Van Der Beek debuted with $69,000 playing on 15 screens.
Writer-director Peter Stebbings dramedy Defendor, starring Woody Harrelson as a regular guy who thinks he has super powers, opened with $21,000 on four screens after playing on one less last weekend.

Here are the box office results according to studio estimates Sunday-

1. Shutter Island…$22.2 million
2. Cop Out…$18.6 million
3. The Crazies…$16.5 million
4. Avatar…$14 million
5. Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief…$9.8 million
6. Valentine’s Day…$9.5 million
7. Dear John…$5 million
8. The Wolfman…$4.1 million
9. Tooth Fairy…$3.5 million
10. Crazy Heart…$2.5 million

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2/21/10 Box Office Results: ‘Shutter Island’ Leaves Peeps with No Other Options

Posted by Nick Ondras on February 22, 2010 at 2:30 am

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Shutter Island, the only new wide release opening this past weekend, debuted at #1 with $40.2 million, besting the debut of director Martin Scorsese’s 2006 Oscar-winning gangster piece The Departed, which reigned with $29.9 million. This is also star Leonardo DiCaprio’s best opening weekend as well. Paramount pushing the psychological thriller about an escaped mental patient on a remote island from an October release date to February proved to be a profitable one, leaving the majority of crowds with no other critically acclaimed flicks to catch this weekend. Shutter Island has a 66% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the only new wide release so far this year with a final rating above 60% on the poll site.

Falling 69.5% to second place with $17.2 million was Valentine’s Day, Garry Marshall’s star-studded film surrounding interlacing love stories on the title holiday. Pic’s total is up to $87.4 million on a $52 million budget. Dropping 31.8% to third was James Cameron’s nine-time Oscar-nominated Avatar with $16.1 million. The sci-fi’s domestic total is nearing $700 million.

Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief stooped 51% from its opening last weekend, bringing in another $15.3 million for a stateside total of $58.8 million in ten days. The book-to-movie adaptation surely benefitted from many school districts having the week off, kids flocking to the movie theater. Joe Johnston’s The Wolfman finishes the top five with $9.8 million, falling 68.7% from last tally. Its grand sum is $50.3 million, far far away from its budget of $150 million. That must hurt, Universal. 2010 isn’t starting off too well for you, is it?

Out of the top five-

The only other notable release this weekend was Roman Polanski’s controversial The Ghost Writer, about a ghostwriter for a bygone U.K. prime minister who discovers that his client is guilty of war crimes. Polanski, currently under house arrest for allegedly having relations with a minor in 1977, won best director for Writer, starring Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan, at the Berlin Film Festival over the weekend. The Silver Bear-winning drama opened with $179,000 on only two screens in New York and two in Los Angeles.
Writer-director Julio DePietro’s poorly received romantic-comedy The Good Guy, starring Alexis Bledel, debuted on nine screens and opened with $36,200.
Opening at last year’s Berlinale and playing at numerous festivals since then, Mitchell Lichtenstein’s drama Happy Tears, following two sisters who come back home to nurse their sick father back to health, finally opened wide around the U.S. this weekend, managing $14,000 on 15 screens.

Here are the box office results according to studio estimates Sunday-

1. Shutter Island…$40.2 million
2. Valentine’s Day…$17.2 million
3. Avatar…$16.1 million
4. Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief…$15.3 million
5. The Wolfman…$9.8 million
6. Dear John…$7.3 million
7. Tooth Fairy…$4.5 million
8. Crazy Heart…$3 million
9. From Paris with Love…$2.5 million
10. Edge of Darkness…$2.2 million

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2/16/10 Box Office Results: Lots of Love for ‘Valentine’s Day’

Posted by Nick Ondras on February 15, 2010 at 10:42 pm

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This President’s Day weekend (as well as the Valentine’s Day break) was the highest-grossing on record, people spending an estimated $238 million at the movies. Leading the pack was Garry Marshall’s Valentine’s Day, opening with $66.9 million over the four-day vacation. Promising a star-studded fiasco of celebrities such as Julia Roberts and Ashton Kutcher, it’s really no wonder the pic did so well. It also benefitted from Sunday being Valentine’s Day, couples in the mood for a good romancer. Critics weren’t, though. The interchanging love story earned itself a rotten 16% score on poll site Rotten Tomatoes. Could Valentine’s Day stay on top next weekend? I doubt it. Holiday-themed flicks like this usually start with a bang and broodingly end quickly.

Next up at #2 was Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, the first of a five-part series of children’s fantasy novels. Chris Columbus’s two-hour action/adventure about a boy who discovers his father is Poseidon raked in $38.8 million. Impressive, but due to poor reviews (49% on Rotten Tomatoes) I don’t think David Yates and the Harry Potter franchise have too much to worry about.

Joe Johnston’s awaited The Wolfman began with $36.5 million over the duel holiday weekend. Johnston has had trouble with his horror reboot about a man in Victorian England who finds himself transforming into a strange beast under moonlight after being bitten by a werewolf, having The Wolfman’s release date pushed back several times. It looks like we may be seeing a bit more of Benicio del Toro and Emily Blunt in the box office in the coming weeks, as I believe this out of the other two debuts this past weekend has the strongest staying power. James Cameron’s sci-fi epic Avatar continues to do amazingly well, grossing $30 million over these past four days with a grand cume of well over $600 million domestic and over $2 billion worldwide.

Dear John rounds us out with an estimated $18.8 million in fifth place. Another film that profited from Valentine’s Day crowds, but still dropping four spots from last weekend.

Out of the top five-

Post 9/11 drama My Name is Khan opened with $1.9 million on 120 screens.
Grisly documentary October Country debuted with $7,000 on one screen.

Here are the box office results according to studio estimates Sunday-

1. Valentine’s Day…$66.9 million
2. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief…$38.8 million
3. The Wolfman…$36.5 million
4. Avatar…$30 million
5. Dear John…$18.8 million
6. Tooth Fairy…7.7 million
7. From Paris With Love…$6.8 million
8. Edge of Darkness…$5.7 million
9. Crazy Heart…$5 million
10. When in Rome…$4.2 million

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2/07/10 Box Office Results: ‘Dear John’ Trumps Cameron, Award-Centrics Get Their Due

Posted by Nick Ondras on February 7, 2010 at 10:29 pm

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Oscar season is among us, and like I previously mentioned people are finally giving the nominations a chance. However, if you didn’t see any of them odds are you saw Dear John, the latest adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel. It knocked Avatar off its seven-weekend #1 spot to debut in primary with $32.4 million. The romantic drama starring Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried as a couple who communicate with each other through letters trumped Nights in Rodanthe’s opening weekend of $13.4 million, the last book-turned-movie of Sparks. It also topped The Notebook’s bow of $13.5 million in 2004.

Not so far away from Dear John, James Cameron’s Avatar took a 24.6% dive to second place with $23.6 million. Its domestic total last week finally beat Titanic’s lifetime of $600.8 million with a massive $630.1 million cumulative. The next film from Taken director Pierre Morel From Paris With Love opened with $8.1 million. The action/thriller starring John Travolta may have suffered from the fact that its targeted audience of men was too busy preparing for Sunday’s Super Bowl game, with no time to go to the movies.

In fourth place, Martin Campbell’s Edge of Darkness fell a steep 59.3% from first place with $7 million. The revenge thriller’s total is up to $29.1 million in ten days, trying to make back an $80 million budget. Tooth Fairy finishes us up at #5 with $6.5 million, falling 35% from last weekend. The Dwayne Johnson-starrer has a grand sum of $34.3 million in three weeks.

Out of the top five-

Like I said, the Oscar baits are finally getting the cash they rightfully deserve. Scott Cooper’s Crazy Heart, starring a likely win Jeff Bridges, increased 58.1% over football weekend and entered the top ten, expanding onto 580 more screens. The country-western weeper has a total of $11.2 million.
It was funny seeing Lone Scherfig’s An Education came back to the marquees in Connecticut this weekend. The coming-of-age flick, with best actress nominee Carey Mulligan (deserving a win), found its weekend total go up 668% as it amplified an extra 686 screens. The two-day expedition total: a healthy $915,000. Its complete epitome: $9.8 million.
Tom Ford’s A Single Man was playing on another 137 more screens, resulting in a weekend total of $631,000, a 14.1% increase from last weekend.
Michael Hoffman’s Leo Tolstoy biopic The Last Station came onto 42 more screens and inherited $371,000, 337.8% more than its last check-in.
Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon entered four more theaters and came out with $132,000, a 12.9% increase.
IFC’s Red Riding Trilogy, three films from author David Peace following an English serial killer in the ‘70s and ‘80s, debuted with $15,500 on one screen.
Henrik Ruben Genz’s drama Terribly Happy, about a relocated cop after a mental disruption, managed $13,000 on one screen.
Meanwhile, The Hurt Locker was sent to DVD by Summitt, which removed it from theaters. Summit, revenue wise, messed up.

Here are the box office results according to studio estimates Sunday-

1. Dear John…$32.4 million
2. Avatar…$23.6 million
3. From Paris With Love…$8.1 million
4. Edge of Darkness…$7 million
5. Tooth Fairy…$6.5 million
6. When in Rome…$5.5 million
7. The Book of Eli…$4.8 million
8. Crazy Heart…$3.7 million
9. Legion (2010)…$3.4 million
10. Sherlock Holmes…$2.6 million

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1/30/10 Box Office Results: No January Competition for Cameron

Posted by Nick Ondras on January 31, 2010 at 6:42 pm

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Seventh weekend. Avatar is #1 again. After covering this the past seven weeks, I have not much more to say other than James Cameron’s head must be enormous. It’s now the highest-grossing film worldwide, and according to Fox its domestic sum of $594.5 million will overtake Titanic’s $600.8 million haul by midweek. Buzz now is that it’s possibly going to win the Oscar for best picture; however I still believe that The Hurt Locker will take that award home. Director Kathryn Bigelow won the DGA award for directing Locker this week, and as film critic superstar Roger Ebert pointed out via Twitter, only six times in 60 years has the DGA ever given an award to a movie that hasn’t won best picture. Anyway, Avatar made $30 million this weekend.

Edge of Darkness, which was supposed to be Avatar’s first real competitor this month, grossed $17.1 million. That sure is a far cry away from Signs first weekend total of $60.1 million, Mel Gibson’s last movie in the starring role. Darkness will most likely not even touch Signs grand sum of $408.2 million. When in Rome, the Kristen Bell/Josh Duhamel vehicle about a New Yorker (Bell) who, after stealing pennies from a fountain in Rome is chased after by multiple lovers, managed $12.1 million. Impressive considering, but nowhere near director Mark Steven Johnson’s last two blockbusters Daredevil and Ghost Rider in their first weekends.

Disney’s The Tooth Fairy fell a steady 28.6% to fourth place with $10 million. Its domestic total is up to $26.1 million on a $48 million budget. Rounding out the top five is The Book of Eli, which dropped 44.3% with $8.8 million. The Hughes brothers’ apocalyptic tale now has a total of $74.4 million.

Out of the top five-

Crazy Heart enjoyed a 66.3% increase in profits thanks to another expansion, grossing $2.3 million more. Its total is $6.6 million.
Hue Rhodes directorial Saint John of Las Vegas opened with $22,400 on two screens. It enters expansion February 12^th.

Here are the box office results according to studio estimates Sunday:

1. Avatar…$30 million
2. Edge of Darkness…$17.1 million
3. When in Rome…$12.1 million
4. The Tooth Fairy…$10 million
5. The Book of Eli…$8.8 million
6. Legion (2010)…$6.8 million
7. The Lovely Bones…$4.7 million
8. Sherlock Holmes…$4.5 million
9. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel…$4 million
10. It’s Complicated…$3.7 million

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1/25/10 Box Office Results: Angels, Apocalypse and (more) Blue People

Posted by Nick Ondras on January 25, 2010 at 10:35 am

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I’m sadly not at Sundance right now as I’d like to be, and apparently neither is the majority of America. Its sixth weekend now, James Cameron’s Avatar remained #1 in the box office. This weekend the sci-fi epic raked in $36 million, bringing its domestic total to $552.8 million. On Friday it surpassed The Dark Knight’s gross of $533.3 million and is now $48 million away from cracking Titanic’s all-time record and becoming the highest-grossing film of all time. What really surprised me though, was that Rolling Stone movie critic Peter Travers took a second look at Avatar and bumped up his three and a half star rating to a full-fledged four stars, main reason being all of the buzz impressed him.

Never in recent memory has Travers ever done that, and I trust him with movies more than I do anyone. That’s why Cameron’s blue people are at the top spot again, because people are seeing this movie multiple times. While I’m still betting on The Hurt Locker to take the Oscar for best picture, Avatar has affirmed that in the past year of no surprises with blockbuster intakes, it had the balls to rise above the rest.

The highly-anticipated (I guess?) Legion, Scott Stewart’s action/thriller about a pissed off God sending angels to Earth to reign in the apocalypse, debuted in second place with a respectable $18.2 million. I couldn’t care less for this crap, but I hear that even loyal Comic-Con fanboys excited for this were severely disappointed. Surely the poor reviews (23% on Rotten Tomatoes) and equally negative word-of-mouth won’t take part in convincing anyone else to see this in the coming weeks.

The Book of Eli fell 48.2% to #3 with $17 million this weekend, bringing its total to a respectable $62 million. I’m not really sure how Warner Bros expected this movie to do with audiences; its budget was $80 mill, but then again they gave it a graveyard January release. Another opening The Tooth Fairy, starring former wrestler (though I’m sure all his fans have lost faith in him by now) Dwayne Johnson, managed $14.5 million. A decent-enough start for The Rock after his animated bomb Planet 51 only grossed $40.2 million in its lifetime, however Fairy has a $48 million budget to make back.

Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones finished off the top five with $8.8 million, falling 48.3%. Its total is up to $31.6 million, but like a lot of other people I just don’t care about this movie anymore.

Out of the top five-

The real extraordinary story was that anyone thought Extraordinary Measures was a good idea for a movie. It debuted in seventh with a mere $7 million.
Brian Baugh’s drama To Save a Life started off with $1.5 million on 441 screens.
Crazy Heart’s expansion paid off; the country western drama took in another $1.4 million after expanding onto 46 more screens.
The controversial Creation (nothing debatable about its stinking, however), also starring Paul Bettany and real-life wife Jennifer Connelly, opened with $52,000 on seven screens.
Foreign language flick The Girl of the Train made $20,000 on two screens.

Here are the box office results according to studio estimates Sunday:

1. Avatar…$36 million
2. Legion (2010)…$18.2 million
3. The Book of Eli…$17 million
4. The Tooth Fairy…$14.5 million
5. The Lovely Bones…$8.8 million
6. Sherlock Holmes…$7.1 million
7. Extraordinary Measures…$7 million
8. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel…$6.5 million
9. It’s Complicated…$6.2 million
10. The Spy Next Door…$4.8 million

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1/17/10 Box Office Results: Bibles and ‘Bones’ No Match for ‘Avatar’

Posted by Nick Ondras on January 18, 2010 at 2:30 am

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In only five weeks in release, Avatar has become the second highest-grossing movie of all time and of 2009. This weekend it took in another $41.3 million, bringing its domestic total to $491.8 million and its worldwide haul to $1.6 billion. Avatar could continue to bring in big bucks during Oscar season, as it’s likely to be nominated in several categories. Could it beat The Dark Knight’s domestic gross of $533.3 million to become the second highest-grossing movie of all time in that category as well? Could its worldwide sum beat out Titanic, even? All I know is that James Cameron must be a very, very happy man.

The Book of Eli started strong, actually kicking Avatar off of its perch on Friday to debut at #1 with $11.7 million. It took a 1% increase on Saturday, but then a 31.4% decrease on Sunday. Total over the three days was $31.6 million, opening with a decent amount more than star Denzel Washington’s last flick The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 in June. In its 2,560 screen increase, Pete Jackson’s The Lovely Bones came in third this weekend with $17.1 million. The film is surely not suffering much from the poor reviews, and the Oscar buzz may even be causing people to want to go out and see it.

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel fell a spot and 30.6% to fourth place with $11.5 million, bringing its domestic total to $192.6 million. Sherlock Holmes rounds out the top five with $9.8 million, its grand sum a whopping $180 million.

Out of the top five-

The Spy Next Door, starring Jackie Chan, couldn’t manage an entry into the top five, opening at #6 with $9.7 million.
Michael Hoffman’s The Last Station, which is generating a lot of Oscar buzz for highlight Helen Mirren’s performance, debuted with $81,700 on three screens.

Here are the box office results according to studio estimates Sunday:

1. Avatar…$41.3 million
2. The Book of Eli…$31.6 million
3. The Lovely Bones…$17.1 million
4. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel…$11.5 million
5. Sherlock Holmes…$9.8 million
6. The Spy Next Door…$9.7 million
7. It’s Complicated…$7.7 million
8. Leap Year…$5.8 million
9. The Blind Side…$5.6 million
10. Up in the Air…$5.5 million

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1/10/10 Box Office Results: ‘Avatar’ Starts 2010 Off With a Bang

Posted by Nick Ondras on January 10, 2010 at 8:00 pm

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In its fourth weekend on the charts, James Cameron’s sc-fi epic Avatar continues to smash records. It’s now surpassed Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen to become the highest-grossing movie released in 2009, and is now the second-highest grossing movie worldwide, the first being Cameron’s own Titanic. I’m glad to see this, number one reason being that Avatar is a phenomenal movie in addition to being the only thing that everyone is talking about, and number two being how much I despise Michael Bay. This weekend Avatar fell 29.2% to gross an estimated $48.5 million, bringing its domestic total to $429 million.

The top three have remained the same for two weekends now, and this weekend is no different. $31.9 million away from Avatar at #2 was Sherlock Holmes, the new flick from director Guy Ritchie. The action-adventure period piece managed $16.6 million, bringing its grand sum to $165.2 million domestic in three weeks. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel stayed behind Holmes with $16.3 million, its domestic total $178.2 million. The sequel will likely make more than its 2007 predecessor in the coming weeks.

Daybreakers debuted at #4 with $15 million, surely benefiting from the positive reviews (64% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes). I can’t help feeling, though, that the Spierig brothers’ vampire thriller could’ve made more had Avatar not being as popular as it is, and if it held a PG-13 rating rather than a strict R. It’s Complicated rounds out the top five with $11 million, its total now $76.4 million.

Out of the top five:

Leap Year, starring Amy Adams and Matthew Goode, couldn’t crack the top five. Coming in at #6, Anand Tucker’s rom-com took in a respectable but not impressive $9.2 million.
Miguel Arteta’s Youth in Revolt appeared to only attract a small audience, debuting in ninth place with $7 million, though not far off from its $18 million budget.
Tim Allen’s directorial debut Crazy on the Outside made $75,400 on 75 screens. Could an expansion increase that gross?
Western documentary Sweetgrass opened with $10,400 on only one screen.

Here are the box office results according to studio estimates Sunday:

1. Avatar…$48.5 million
2. Sherlock Holmes…$16.6 million
3. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel…$16.3 million
4. Daybreakers…$15 million
5. It’s Complicated…$11 million
6. Leap Year…$9.2 million
7. The Blind Side…$7.8 million
8. Up in the Air…$7.1 million
9. Youth in Revolt…$7 million
10. The Princess and the Frog…$4.7 million

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1/02/10 Box Office Results: ‘Avatar’ Makes a Lot of Noise in a Rather Quiet Weekend

Posted by Nick Ondras on January 3, 2010 at 4:30 pm

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