The Green Hornet takes down The Dilemma, while True Grit continues to impress. Here's our US box office round up...
With a new weekend comes a new release slate. This weekend, The Green Hornet and The Dilemma came up for public appraisal, and the clear winner is Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, and the Black Beauty. Of the two new releases, The Green Hornet was the biggest success, bringing in $34 million in a decent, if a bit soft new release.
The Dilemma was left in the dust, picking up second with 17.4 million bones based solely off of the names Vince Vaughn and Kevin James. I saw The Dilemma this weekend. See my review for further information, if so inclined.
Last week's top film, True Grit , was pushed down to third, but Paramount has to be celebrating yet another eight-digit weekend at theaters. Tr ue Grit picked up $11.2 million this weekend, pushing its total in the US alone to $126 million (versus a budget of 38 million bucks). That's a pretty good return on the investment, isn't it?
Of the releases last weekend, the big winner was probably The King's Speech . The Weinstein flick rose five spots in the box office, from ninth last weekend to fourth this weekend, after tacking on another 785 screens and getting a renewed push from Colin Firth picking up a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame last week. The film's $9 million this weekend is forty-one percent higher than last weekend, and it's nudged the film to just under $45 million in total grosses in two quiet months at the box office.
Also celebrating a renewed, widened release is Black Swan , which added 744 screens and kept its box office receipts solid at $8.125 million. The film hangs onto fifth place at the box office, and sits at just under $73 million in the States. Black Swan has grossed more than every other Darren Aronofsky film put together. His next highest grosser, The Wrestler , picked up only $26 million in the US.
Little Fockers , last weekend's second place movie, suffers a tumble this weekend. The further adventures of the Focker clan sinks to sixth place this weekend, though it still took in $7.1 million. So far, The Fockers have claimed $134 million at the US box office, which is very impressive. It's been said this would be the last outing, but with this kind of return on investment, will that actually be the case? I'm not so sure.
Dropping to seventh from fourth is Tron Legacy , which picked up $5.6 million this weekend. So far, the film has brought in $157 million in the United States. Internationally, Tron Legacy has banked $300 million. That's not a bad haul, all things considered. This might be the year of Jeff Bridges. Between this and True Grit , he's turned into box office gold!
Holding onto eighth place is Yogi Bear . Yogi 's taken longer than expected, but it has finally returned its initial budget. Yogi has taken in $82 million in the US, versus a budget of $80 million. The film picked up $5.3 million this weekend.
The Fighter sits at ninth, bringing in $5.1 million (and $65 million overall).
Last weekend's only new release, Season Of The Witch , drops from third all the way down to tenth place after the initial rush of curious Cage-o-philes and Ron Perlmaniacs. The flick tacked on another $4.5 million at the box office this weekend, and sits just under $18 million for the fortnight. That's not terribly good, but I have no doubt this movie will make good money on DVD, if only for the Rifftrax version. As for me, I kind of liked it, because it was just so gloriously goofy and illogically bad, plus Ron Perlman and I have an unspoken kinship since we're both bearded Rons.
Out next weekend is the romantic comedy No Strings Attached , in which Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman eventually realize they love one another and should be together. (No, I haven't seen the movie yet, but we all know that's going to happen.) If it sounds familiar, it was because the movie was released a few weeks ago with Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal under the title Love And Other Drugs .
Also out next weekend is the drama The Way Back , which features relative unknown, Dragos Bucur, alongside Colin Farrell and Ed Harris as a Soviet-era prisoner in Siberia who escapes a staggering 4000 miles to end up in India (and subsequent freedom from the Soviet death squads).
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