Very little excitement for genre fans this week as we all hold our collective breath for the Avatar juggernaut (tickets go on sale today). The Blind Side continues to rise and takes the #1 spot with $20.04M, while The Twilight Saga: New Moon comes in at #2 with $15.42M, down 64% after adding 84 theaters - but with a US running total of $255.36M and a global take of an additional $243M, nobody's worried.
Jim Sheridan's Brothers opened at #3 with $9.52M, while A Christmas Carol dropped 467 theaters and 50% with $7.76M for a combined US tally of $115.24M (foreign totals are unavailable, but it took the #1 spot and £1.67M/$2.71M in the UK after five weeks). Old Dogs took $6.89M at #5, closely followed by 2012 with $6.77M (worldwide total of $600.25M).
Armored opened with a weak $6.51M, although its $20M budget can probably handle that. Ninja Assassin also failed to impress in its second weekend, dropping 62% from a poor opening with $5.06M ($29.82M total against a $40M budget). Planet 51 is at #9, down 57% with $3.85M (a total of $34.05M, marking the halfway point to its $70M budget). Robert De Niro failed to find an audience with Everybody's Fine at #10, pulling in only $3.85M in 2,133 theaters.
At #11 Fantastic Mr Fox looks unlikely to take hold as a family holiday hit, down $58% with $2.91M, for a disappointing $14.08M after 10 days on wide release. Meanwhile at #15 The Road dropped 57%, despite expanding to 126 screens, adding $749,535 for a 10-day total of $3.19M.
This week's biggest flop however is Transylmania, which debuted in 1,007 theaters, managing a paltry $262 per screen for a total of $263,941. This makes it the worst ever opening for a film playing in more than 1,000 cinemas and hopefully, after this and Stan Helsing, we'll see a hiatus for the unfunny horror spoof – the distributors of UK flop Lesbian Vampire Killers are presumably not looking forward to the holidays, as this opens in the US on 12/29.
Friday sees the following openings: Disney's The Princess and the Frog, Clint Eastwood's Rugby-themed, post-apartheid Invictus, Peter Jackson's eagerly awaited The Lovely Bones, fashion designer Tom Ford's directorial debut A Single Man, and the latest from Broken Lizard, The Slammin' Salmon.
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