Weekend Estimates New Years Eve - 13.7M; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - 0.3M (PTA 75,184 in 4 theaters)

[Travod]

Wow that's great for TTSS! I hope it does well, it rocks.

[Chaz]

So what was the deal with The Muppets having some sort of liberal political slant/agenda? MSNBC spent a ton of time talking about the villain being some evil "big oil" guy and this big discussion was a response to some comment on Fox News? The odd thing was the original comment on Fox couldn't have taken 1/10th of the time this long discussion on MNSBC did. Who the heck wants politics with the Muppets? I haven't seen the movie (just can't get past the wrong voices), so I have no clue what's going on. But if you have Fox saying it's biased and that's bad and MSNBC says it's biased and that's great, I can see why the pool of moviegoers is smaller.

The 24 hour news cycle creates faux-controversy everywhere. They need stories to eat up air time.

[GiantCALBears]

one of the worst weekends in BO history in terms of historical performance for this time of year? this is pretty pathetic lol

[AniNate]

Worst weekend in the last three years, at any point

[BK007]

Awful, I mean I already said no one would watch these but the holdovers were pathetic. Hugo and Descendants don't increase and everything else dropped soft but not as soft as would be expected when no one sees the openers.Thing is, I can't see the films-to-come not doing well because January looks so awful.

[ladyevenstar22]

what's with all the doom and gloom! i know i'll be watching sherlock 2 when it comes out and tintin also, i loved the first but i might be bias , ever since i saw IM1 i can't seem to find anything wrong with robert downey jr, not a thing! i've even started watching his old films from way before !but of course not living in usa i have no dellusion of grandeur that i have some influence on the box office numbers of a film....

[AniNate]

There's doom and gloom because the box office has blown chunks the last three weeks. The three Thanksgiving openers should all be doing $100 million.

[Fake]

Hopefully this gloom ends this weekend when Sherlock gets a huge start.

[tracygee]

giteshpandya#NewYearsEve opens even worse than est w/revised $13M wknd. Worst #1 debut since BangkokDangerous in 2008.

Ouch.

[lab276]

[rockNrollaDIM]

LMAOAbysmal weekend.Looks like these star studded rom coms have seen their last day.

[rockNrollaDIM]

I'm not doom/gloom about this either though. The box office deserves to suffer when only crap is released. There's nothing good out there for adults right now, at least not in wide release.

[lab276]

Still, the holdovers could've done better.

[SuperBatman]

There's still hope in humanity New Years Eve didn't do jack squat however that may end if Alvin 3 does well which I have a bad feeling it will.

[baumer]

There's still hope in humanity New Years Eve didn't do jack squat however that may end if Alvin 3 does well which I have a bad feeling it will.

Completely different. It's made for kids and kids are wired differently than adults. What they like has nothing to do with the rest of us.

[reddevil18]

Yeah, kids are stupid...

[AniNate]

If kids' brains are wired so that Alvin does more than the three Thanksgiving releases combined, then I think they are in bad need of some rewiring.

Edited December 12, 2011 by tribefan695

[cozmeesah]

No, it doesn't mean any of that. It just means that little kids find different things funny than do adults. Who'da thunkit? Crazy concept, I know.Kids like silly faces, slapstick humor, fart jokes, a character doing something goofy looking, etc. They aren't looking for the same things we do in films. Hell, even in films like Shrek the kids laughed at different parts than the parents/adults did. They laughed at Donkey falling down or Shrek getting kicked in the twig & berries. We laughed at the hidden humor.Doesn't mean kids are stupid if they like films like Alvin. It means that they are KIDS.

[AniNate]

And they'll regret it when they're grown up. There are certain things from your childhood that you still cherish when you're an adult (i.e. The Lion King or Toy Story), and there are others that you will want to purge from your memory (like the live action Chipmunks or the Pokemon movies/tv show). I'd prefer if they were exposed to more movies they'll still like when they're adults.

Edited December 12, 2011 by tribefan695

[DAR]

Alvin and the Chipmunks have been around since the 50's. When I was a kid in the 80's there was a Saturday Morning cartoon. Even as a kid I knew they sucked.And the movies are just lazy. Singing Poker Face with a high squeaky voice is not clever or cute. It's just annoying.