Weekend Box-Office: January 14-16, 2011

WEEKEND BOX-OFFICE

Green
Hornet KO’s the competition!

Kudos to Seth Rogen & gang
as his latest film, THE GREEN HORNET, despite middling
reviews, managed a solid opening weekend of $34M in its first
three days. Being as January is generally considered as the
"dump month", the film managed to rank as the 3rd
highest January opening of all-time! Too bad we can’t say the same
for Vince Vaughn’s latest "walk through" entitled THE
DILEMMA, a film that most
everyone agreed was not really all that good. The movie still
managed a second place finish with about $17M, but something tells
me that it won’t stick around for too long.

And speaking of films
disappearing from view really fast, check out the 2nd weekend for
Nic Cage’s SEASON OF THE WITCH! The film opened in 3rd place last
weekend, but has already dropped to 10th spot this weekend, losing
58% of its audience from last weekend (must be the hair). And what
happened to holiday releases like THE TOURIST and GULLIVER’S
TRAVELS? They’re nowhere to be found, while quality releases like
TRUE GRIT, THE FIGHTER, THE KING’S SPEECH and BLACK SWAN are
managing to keep some people interested in theatrical
releases during this dead period.

Oh and in case you forgot, the
GOLDEN GLOBES are tonight and JoBlo.com’s MovieHotties is hosting
its annual
CHAT during the Globes starting at 7pm tonight, so
check that out if you’re around.

As for those kooky Coen bros,
it’s interesting to note that the greatest box-office score that
they managed during their
first 20 years of movie-making, was THE LADYKILLERS with $39M
back in 2004. Since then, they’ve made 4 films, 3 of which have
grossed over $60M and the latest of which, TRUE GRIT, is their
highest-grossing movie of all-time! ($126M and counting!)
Have they officially "sold out" or are audiences just
figuring out how awesome these filmmakers are? (btw, if you
haven’t done so already, smoke a doob and watch THE BIG LEBOWSKI
some night…thank me later)

The two films to get booted
from the top 10 this week included COUNTRY STRONG, which only
managed to slip into the top 10 for one weekend ($13M), while
TANGLED managed a great showing, lasting almost 2 months in the
top 10, while earning close to $181M when all was said and done.
That said, the film apparently cost $260M to make?!? How is
that possible?

Next week sees the release of
only one film, but it may accentuate the peak of Natalie Portman
in the public’s consciousness, as NO
STRINGS ATTACHED is released, inexplicably co-starring Ashton
Kutcher, in a seeming play on the ol’ WHEN HARRY MET SALLY
plotline (can friends sleep together and still remain friends…psst,
the answer is "no"). So are you interested in seeing
this film or would you rather stay home and cut your toenails? VOTE
NOW!!!

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