Weekend Box Office: 'True Grit' takes first place!

[The Clown Prince]

True Grit has been doing very well thanks to word of mouth and the continued critical success it has received. This weekend it jumped up to first place after adding 41 theaters (3,124 total) for the first time over taking Little Fockers. True Grit dropped nearly 39% but earned another $15 million this weekend and has bumped it's total to $110.4 million. Not bad for a $38 million budgeted film.

Little Fockers dropped to second place after two weeks in first place. It made $13.7 million and has a total of $123.9 million.

Debuting in third place was Season of the Witch with $10.7 million.

In fourth was Tron: Legacy with $9.8 million and a $147.9 million total.

And rounding out the top 5 is Black Swan as it added 31 more theaters (1,584 total) and dropped 6%. It made $8.3 million this weekend with a total of $61.4 million. It's production budget was $13 million.

Country Strong opened wide this weekend (1,424 theaters) after two weeks in limited release in only two theaters. It came in sixth place with $7.3 million and a total of $7.4 million. It has a budget of $15 million.

Out of the top 12 this weekend is The Tourist (13th), and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows- Part 1 (14th). In 14th place it earned another $2.4 million and has a total of $287.7 million. It's worldwide total is up to $905.5 million!

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince finished with $301.9 million and a worldwide total of $933.9 million.

Opening next weekend are three new movies. First up is The Green Hornet (rated PG-13) starring Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Cameron Diaz, Christoph Waltz, Edward James Olmos, David Harbour, and Tom Wilkinson.

Next we have The Dilemma (rated PG-13) with Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, Jennifer Connelly, Winona Ryder, Channing Tatum, and Queen Latifah.

And finally we have The Heart Specialist (No MPAA rating ) with Zoe Saldana, Wood Harris, Brian White, Nephew Tommy, Marla Gibbs, Jasmine Guy, Jennifer Lewis, Terrence J, Method Man, and Ed Asner.

Here are your numbers....


1) True Grit- $15,000,000 ($110,430,000)
2) Little Fockers- $13,781,000 ($123,982,000)
3) Season of the Witch- $10,726,000 ($10,726,000) NEW!
4) Tron: Legacy- $9,803,000 ($147,925,000)
5) Black Swan- $8,350,000 ($61,455,000)
6) Country Strong- $7,300,000 ($7,437,000)
7) The Fighter- $7,000,000 ($57,844,000)
8) The King's Speech- $6,811,000 ($33,293,000)
9) Yogi Bear- $6,810,000 ($75,606,000)
10) Tangled- $5,200,000 ($175,868,000)
11) The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader- $4,750,000 ($94,681,000)
12) Gulliver's Travels- $4,700,000 ($34,560,000)

[SRB2Unleashed]

HANG IN THERE TRON! We need a sequel.

[mumbo]

Very glad to see True Grit doing so well.

Looks like Narnia may be able to juuust cross that $100 million mark after all.

[Lord Dalek]

The big news here is that the Disney action pic's international is up to $143.2M (including $17.6M this weekend), as Tron: Legacy 3D opened strong in Italy this past week and is now in release in 43 territories representing 75% of the international market. It will soon expand to China, Belgium, Holland, Germany, and France. New global cume is $291.1M which helps with that $170M budget and $120 worldwide marketing cost.

Tron has officially broken even and will turn a profit. Sorry CyclonatorZ.

[NewcomerDC]

While I liked Black Swan more than True Grit, I'm glad that a film that's going for some award cred has taken down a film that has been declared one of the worst films of the past year.

With the up and down percentage rating for Season of the Witch on rottentomatoes.com, I guess that it'll go down rapidly from the top half of the Top 10/12 to the bottom and off the roster altogether based on a LOT of negative reviews.

I hope that I don't regret spending money on The Green Hornet if I decide to see it on Friday morning.

[Monterey Jack]

Wow, I can't remember if a Western has EVER grossed over $100 million at the box office (the anachronistic -- and awful -- Wild Wild West doesn't count). I hope the success of True Grit will inspire more Westerns to be produced for the big screen.

Wait...Dances With Wolves (and Unforgiven...?). But still, those films are two decades in the past.

[NewcomerDC]

Wow, I can't remember if a Western has EVER grossed over $100 million at the box office (the anachronistic -- and awful -- Wild Wild West doesn't count). I hope the success of True Grit will inspire more Westerns to be produced for the big screen.

You're right about that. We have Cowboys and Aliens debuting later this year.

[The Clown Prince]

Friday box office....

1) The Green Hornet- $11.1 million
2) The Dilemma- $6.1 million
3) Tru Grit- $3.2 million ($118.4 million)
4) The King's Speech- $2.4 million ($37.9 million)
5) Black Swan- $2.4 million ($67.2 million)