Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Box: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by the Coward Bella Swan... or James Bond

1. Breaking Dawn Part 2 - $17m / $254m / $300m
2. Lincoln - $16m / $85.5m / $155m
3. Skyfall - $15m / $244m / $290m
4. Rise of the Guardians - $13.5m / $49m / $115m
5. Life of Pi - $12.5m / $49m / $110m
6. Killing Them Softly - $9m / $9m / $26m
7. Wreck-It Ralph - $7.5m / $158.5m / $188m
8. Red Dawn - $5.5m / $30.5m / $42m
9. Flight - $4.5m / $81.5m / $94m
10. Silver Linings Playbook - $4.5m / $12m / $50m
**The Collection - $3.5m / $3.5m / $8m

Threeway race for #1, expect the top 3 to be a photo finish.  Whatever happens, I fully expect Lincoln to be #1 next weekend.  Killing Them Softly is being dumped, despite overall decent reviews.  The studio probably knows it's not a mainstream audience movie.  The Collection, meanwhile, is being advertised pretty aggressively.  I have no idea if that means it might perform stronger than the original, as I had to look up how that film performed because I totally forgot.  $3.5m opening / $7.7m finish.  I'll give this one an edge because there's no competition right now for that type of movie.  No word yet on the expansion of Silver Linings, but it did what it needed to last week.  I've heard the big expansion will come on Dec. 7th.  Smart move, as the only other thing opening next week is Playing For Keeps and that will be a non-starter.  With the holdovers, this is a decent post-Thanksgiving weekend. 

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