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BD - $649,222

How in the world is it breaking even already? It'll need to pull a good additional $40-60m to break even on the theatrical run.If foreign is strong, it'll do okay, but if not, it could be in trouble.

I'm assuming The Muppets just isn't reporting yet, not that they're out of the top seven, right?

Ouch.

Roughly the same. NM did $7.96 its fourth weekend.

From Gitesh. A more readable version here. Weekend Box Office (December 9 - 11, 2011) # Title Dec 9 - 11 Dec 2 - 4 % Chg. Theaters Weeks AVG Cumulative Distributor 1 New Year's Eve $ 13,705,000 3,505 1 $ 3,910 $ 13,705,000 Warner Bros. 2 The Sitter 10,000,000 2,750 1 3,636 10,000,000 Fox 3 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Pt. 1 7,900,000 16,535,465 -52.2 3,604 4 2,192 259,500,000 Summit 4 The Muppets 7,073,000 11,082,755 -36.2 3,328 3 2,125 65,837,000 Disney 5 Arthur Christmas 6,600,000 7,401,736 -10.8 3,272 3 2,017 33,490,000 Sony 6 Hugo 6,125,000 7,557,709 -19.0 2,608 3 2,349 33,489,000 Paramount 7 The Descendants 4,385,000 4,789,741 -8.5 876 4 5,006 23,635,000 Fox Searchlight 8 Happy Feet Two 3,750,000 5,919,390 -36.6 2,840 4 1,320 56,850,000 Warner Bros. 9 Jack and Jill 3,200,000 5,356,973 -40.3 2,787 5 1,148 68,642,000 Sony 10 Immortals 2,442,000 4,464,889 -45.3 2,299 5 1,062 79,850,000 Relativity Top 5 $ 45,278,000 $ 48,497,055 -6.6 Top 10 65,180,000 70,104,824 -7.0 Top 10 vs. 2010 65,180,000 81,560,957 -20.1 Top 10 vs. 2009 65,180,000 82,656,512 -21.1 Below the Top 10: Tower Heist 2,379,000 3,953,925 -39.8 2,069 6 1,150 74,143,000 Universal Puss in Boots 1,655,000 3,042,241 -45.6 1,843 7 898 141,900,000 Paramount J. Edgar 1,200,000 2,308,411 -48.0 1,555 5 772 34,773,000 Warner Bros. My Week With Marilyn 784,000 1,179,545 -33.5 244 3 3,213 5,122,000 Weinstein Co. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas 464,000 985,378 -52.9 470 6 987 33,975,000 Warner Bros. In Time 325,000 555,102 -41.5 354 7 918 36,384,000 Fox Young Adult 320,000 8 1 40,000 320,000 Paramount Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy 301,000 4 1 75,250 301,000 Focus The Artist 292,000 211,265 38.2 16 3 18,250 886,000 Weinstein Co. Shame 276,000 349,519 -21.0 21 2 13,143 774,000 Fox Searchlight A Dangerous Method 80,125 119,574 -33.0 4 3 20,031 539,000 Sony Classics

I was wondering the same thing.

Overhyped and galacially paced. I absolutely adore Carey Mulligan, but she was completely miscast here. Could have been a classic, but it missed the mark. It's a B for me. I think this (joke) script about sums it up:

Really nice bump for The Decendants. The older crowd does like their cheap Tuesdays.

Hmmm, so a wee lower than I expected, but still about a million better than New Moon did during this equivalent weekend.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel trailer seems to be getting great reactions from what we're seeing in the crowd reports. They may have a nice little sleeper hit on their hands.

It's interesting to see specific countries and how the bo differs for this one. Russia is going to town:NM (entire run) - $18,616,430Eclipse (entire run) - $26,363,413 BD (first 10 days) - $26,829,299

Could be that Monday's numbers were slightly inflated due to those (relatively few) school districts that were off on Monday and so there's not much of the usual Tuesday bump?

My Week with Marilyn Sunday, 12:10 pm screening, roughly 25% full, about 50 people. About 50% male, 50% female, but a lot of older patrons. Trailers: The Iron Lady Wanderlust Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - lots of laughs from the older members of the audience on this one. Young Adult The Artist - lots of murmering Michelle Williams does a fantastic job here, as does Kenneth Branaugh, but this is absolutely Michelle's movie. It's not exactly fast-paced, but it kept my attention. I felt I might have enjoyed it more if I had seen The Prince and the Showgirl before seeing this. B

Very good jump. I was expecting about +8%.

As a kid, we always had the entire week off. As an adult, I get just Thursday and Friday. Bummer.

In this article on IMDb, they are quoting a $8.2 million opening weekend in Mexico for BD1.To compare, New Moon did $6.1 million opening weekend and Eclipse did $6.6 million.

BD Monday actual: $9,853,481

Definitely no 3D for Part II. They thought about it, but nixed it.Frankly, that was the correct decision. Who needs 3D in what is, in essence, a romance?

November 24:Germany, Guatamala, Malaysia, Singapore December 1:Thailand December 22:Hong Kong February 25 2012:Japan

I don't believe any of the Twilight films have been released in China. It's hard to get one of the 20 slots allotted to foreign movies in the country per year.They do release in Hong Kong every year, I think, though.

Specific markets per THR. Lower in Australia and France, pretty much besting NM in the rest:Australia: $12.5M (NM/$14.7M; Eclipse: $10.9M) Brazil: $10.2M (NM/$6.9M; Eclipse: $6.4M) France: $14.5M (NM/19.6M; Eclipse: $13.3M) Italy: $12M (NM/$9.8M; Eclipse: $4.7M) Russia: $15M (NM/$9M; Eclipse: $11.2M) Spain: $11.6M (NM/$11.8M; Eclipse/$6.6M) UK: $22M (NM/19.2m; Eclipse:$20.7M)

That makes no sense. What else would be relevant but fan reaction?

Great result for Twilight, especially considering the book is so controversial/hated in the fandom. No idea why the Potter fans feel it's a competition. Drives me nuts.

This is not official, but...Twilight Poison (a well known Spanish/English Twi site) is reporting huge sales in Mexico. I guess Monday is a holiday there, and she is saying the entire country has basically sold out all screenings through Monday. I don't think that's possible, but I think it's an indication of a very strong three-day weekend in that nation.