No Strings Attached debuted in first place this week, though that's due more to the lack of competition than any particularly impressive earnings. The Green Hornet experienced a standard superhero decline and settled for second place, while The King's Speech leveraged its 12 Oscar nominations to move in to third. In an increasingly unnerving trend, business was down 27 percent from last year whenled with $47.7 million.
Ashton Kutcher - Natalie Portman romantic comedy No Strings Attached scored $26.1 million in its first seven days. This is an improvement over Mr. Kutcher's last movie, but down a tad from What Happens in Vegas . Since this is Ms. Portman's first traditional romantic comedy there aren't any great comparisons on her end, though No Strings Attached will pass the final tally of her 2004 indie hitsometime today.
The Green Hornet fell 52 percent to just under $22 million for a two-week total of $67.3 million. That's almost identical to's second week decline, and if Green Hornet continues along this path, it will finish with around $85 million.
After ending the weekend in fourth place, The King's Speech took advantage of a flood of Oscar buzz to move in to third place on the week. The historical drama was down only 16 percent to $11.7 million and has amassed an impressive $61.1 million total since opening in limited release in November. The movie expands to 2,557 locations this weekend.
fell 51 percent to $11.5 million, which was pretty steep considering the movie didn't open at a particularly impressive level. For comparison, Kevin James 'dropped under 40 percent at the same time in 2009. The Dilemma has so far earned just $35.2 million.
andboth eased 34 percent to $10.2 million and $8.2 million, respectively. Each movie experienced a nice bump on Tuesday corresponding with their Oscar nominations, with True Grit up 41 percent and Black Swan up 37 percent. With a total of $140.8 million, True Grit has now made more than the Coen Brothers' first nine movies combined, and is less than $1.4 million away from passing. Meanwhile, Black Swan raised its total to $85.6 million.
Way down in 15th place, the week's other new nationwide releaseregistered just $1.65 million at 678 locations for a meager per-theater average of $2,436.
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