Weekend Box-Office: November 26-28, 2010

WEEKEND BOX-OFFICE

Potter
squeezes by Tangled…

Even though the latest HARRY
POTTER movie remained in the #1 spot this week, a few hundred
thousand dollars in front of the latest Disney animated film
entitled TANGLED, we’ll only know the "real results"
tomorrow, since today’s figures are just "estimates", so
TANGLED may be the #1 movie once the "actual
figures" are announced on Monday. Stay tuned for that. But
for now, HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 is
continuing to beat all records, as it becomes the highest-grossing
POTTER film after 10 days of release (the previous record-holder
was HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE which had made $201M…the
latest film has made $220M in its first 10 days). It
has also grossed an additional $390M outside the United States,
which brings its grand total to $610M worldwide after only 10 days
of release. Wow!

TANGLED also surprised many
people with a massive opening this week, as the film has already
grossed close to $70M since opening on Wednesday. Industry
forecasts were expecting something closer to $40M. It also became
the 2nd
biggest Thanksgiving debut ever with $49M, which was behind
only TOY STORY 2 which had opened with $57M back in 1999.

The other three new releases of
the week didn’t fare as well with BURLESQUE beating the other two
with $12M over the weekend and $17M since its release on
Wednesday, while LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS made only $10M over the
weekend and $14M since Wednesday and the Rock disappointed with
FASTER in 7th place in its opening weekend, with only $9M over the
weekend and $12M since its release the day before Thanksgiving.
I’m not convinced that FASTER "bombing" was due to the
Rock or the film’s quality though, as many are pointing out that
this time of year isn’t ideal for "male oriented action
films" as the 3 family oriented films in the top 3 will
attest.

The 4 films to get drop-kicked from the top 10
this week, in favor of the newest releases included FAIR GAME
($6M), FOR COLORED GIRLS ($37M), RED ($86M) and SKYLINE ($20M).
All the other films that remained in the top 10 this week, didn’t
lose much of their audience from last weekend, in fact, they had
some of the smallest drops of the year with MEGAMIND losing only
20% of its audience from last weekend and UNSTOPPABLE seeming just
that, losing less than 10% of its audience.

Next weekend sees the release of only 1 new film,
so it looks like most of the studios are happy to keep pushing
this week’s new releases. The new release is entitled THE
WARRIOR’S WAY, an action-fantasy-western (that’s right)
starring Kate Bosworth (remember her?), Geoffrey Rush, Danny
Huston and Tony Cox (the midget from BAD SANTA). Quite an eclectic
cast, wouldn’t you say? If you haven’t seen this film’s trailer
yet, check it out over HERE.
So with only that one film opening next week, we figured that we’d
focus our poll on HARRY POTTER this week, specifically about which
of the HP films is your favorite? VOTE
NOW!!!

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