Sunday, January 2, 2011

Angelina Jolie Has the Last Laugh?


Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, The TouristColumbia Pictures
Little Fockers won the weekend again. True Grit won second place again. Hollywood missed Avatar again. 
For surprising box-office news you had to look to—surprise!—The Tourist.
The $100 million Angelina Jolie-Johnny Depp "bomb" hit $120 million worldwide.
Boom.
And the Golden Globe-nominated comedy (or musical) ain't done yet, even as it fell out of the domestic Top 10 after a brief three-weekend stay. Expectations were that when all is said and grossed, The Tourist could reach $200 million worldwide.
Elsewhere, Ben Stiller's and Robert De Niro's Little Fockers broke $100 million domestically, and managed to edge Jeff Bridges—twice.
Bridges' truly gritty True Grit had a fantastic second weekend, while Bridges' $170 million Tron: Legacy upped its worldwide take to $241 million.
Oscar hopeful The King's Speech finally cracked the Top 10; Ryan Gosling's and Michelle Williams' Oscar vehicle Blue Valentine finally opened—and how—grossing $180,066 off just four screens.
Overall, it was another down box-office weekend for Hollywood, as the industry continued to lack for a certain James Cameron powerhouse
Here's a rundown of the top-grossing films over New Year's weekend, per Friday-Sunday estimates compiled by Exhibitor Relations:
  1. Little Fockers, $26.3 million
  2. True Grit, $24.5 million
  3. Tron: Legacy, $18.3 million
  4. Yogi Bear, $13 million
  5. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, $10.5 million
  6. Tangled, $10.01 million
  7. The Fighter, $10 million
  8. Gulliver's Travels, $9.1 million
  9. Black Swan, $8.5 million
  10. The King's Speech, $7.6 million

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