Last weekend consumers decided to give some power to he three new movies last weekend and put them in the top-4 spots amongst the top-10 movies at the box office last weekend.
Estimated numbers:
Number One Movie At the Box Office
Contraband showed that Mark Wahlberg can switch hats from his executive producer hat (Boardwalk Empire, Entourage) to his acting hat (The Other Guys, Date Night, The Lovely Bones) and still draw the fans in to the movie theater for his new movies. He does have that pull on you and he can pull off an action role pretty awesomely. (Is that even a word? LOL)
Contraband, from director Baltasar Kormákur (Inhale, A Little Trip to Heaven), pulled in just over $24M at the ticket window, averaging almost $8.5K per theater. Yea… the fans like Wahlberg!
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The 1991 animated classic, Beauty and the Beast, was re-released in 3D this last weekend and showed that classic movies that are close to the heart can still have an interesting draw when slapped out in the 3D theater…
Beauty and the Beast drew in almost $18.5M at the box office, which surprised me. I was sure it would do OK, but I wasn’t sure it would be such the hit to be the No. 2 movie in America.
This brings the movies’ overall worldwide tally to $378M.
Sure, it’s a 3D release. Sure, they’re just adding money to their coffers by taking advantage of your heart strings, but A: It worked, B: Animated features in 3D can be awesome.
Did any of my readers see this in 3D? Was it any fun in 3D?
Hey, at the very least, you get to take your kids to the same movie and give them the experience you had once when you were young! Right?
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Tom Cruise is still cruising strong with Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. The Brad Bird directed movie pulled in $11.5M domestically, bringing the worldwide dollar tally up to $506M.
Action is action and Tom Cruise is good at his action roles, I’ll give him that!
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Joyful Noise, starring Queen Latifah and Dolly Pardon, which was written and directed by Todd Graff (Camp), pulled in just over $11M in its opening weekend.
Not a bad haul for it’s opener.
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Guy Ritchie‘s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, starring Robert Downey Jr., pulled in another $8M, bringing its worldwide tally up to $392M.
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The scary, found-footage movie of The Devil Inside is still going strong and scaring the pants off more movie-goers this last weekend.
It pulled in another $8M at the domestic box office, pulling it’s domestic tally up to $46M.
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Behind those top-6, the movies rounding out the top-10 movies at the box office include The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ($6.8M), Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked ($5.8M), War Horse ($5.6M) and The Iron Lady, with $5.4M.
Here’s the top-10 movies chart:
| Title | Weekend | Gross |
| Contraband | $24.1M | $24.1M |
| Beauty and the Beast | $18.5M | $18.5M |
| Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol | $11.5M | $187M |
| Joyful Noise | $11.3M | $11.3M |
| Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | $8.41M | $170M |
| The Devil Inside | $7.9M | $46.2M |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | $6.8M | $88M |
| Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked | $5.8M | $119M |
| War Horse | $5.61M | $65.8M |
| The Iron Lady | $5.39M | $5.97M |
The Iron Lady is in 10th, but is in a very limited release schedule, being out in only 800 movie theaters, versus Contraband, which was in 2,800 movie theaters. The Iron Lady is pulling in over $6k per theater, ranking it third in per-theater cash intake.
And what’s happening with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? Where’s all the hoopla now? I remember reading a few other websites and how awesome this movie is. It’s pulled in $87M domestic, and $137M worldwide, but I was sort of expecting it to stay in the top-5 for weeks, at least if you were to believe some of their hoopla. The box office dollars are saying it’s doing fine, as far as profits are going, so I guess it’s doing OK… but I expected more from it. It’s funny how some places pump things up and then when it’s come and gone… on to the next pumping up project.
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