Some online sites that follow weekly box office totals are announcing the three-day actual weekend estimates, while others count this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day a four-day weekend, and give four-day estimates that include Monday’s prediction. In this post, I will only mention the three-day estimates since Monday can change drastically from its anticipated numbers.
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After Disney’s huge success with the 3D re-release of ‘The Lion King’ last year, ‘Beauty and the Beast in 3D’ was expected to land the #1 spot this weekend. However, ‘Contraband<\/strong>‘ snuck up and stole the top honors. ‘Contraband’ was only expected to make $18.5 million, but finished the weekend with $24.1 million. I predict that the film’s second week will resemble that of ‘The Devil Inside<\/strong>‘ \u2013 a 76.6% drop-off that shifts it from first place to sixth.<\/p>\n Given the $30.2 million opening of ‘The Lion King’ last year, ‘Beauty and the Beast in 3D<\/strong>‘ was predicted to win the weekend with $19.6 million, yet only walked away in the #2 spot with $18.4 million. <\/p>\n The Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton vehicle ‘Joyful Noise<\/strong>‘ also failed to meet expectations. My guess is that most people had already seen the highly-advertised, all-too-revealing trailer a hundred times. Expected to make $12.6 million, it only pulled in $11.3 million \u2013 just enough to land in the #4 spot.<\/p>\n ‘Mission: Impossible \u2013 Ghost Protocol<\/strong>‘ became the second highest-grossing film of its franchise this weekend. With $186.7 million under its belt, all ‘Ghost Protocol’ needs is another $28.7 million to pass John Woo’s ‘Mission: Impossible II’.<\/p>\n The expansion of ‘The Iron Lady<\/strong>‘ from 5 screens to 802 screens allowed the film to barely crack the Top 10 with $5.3 million. But don’t think that makes this dreadfully boring bio-pic worth watching. Just as ‘J. Edgar’ had to learn, there’s more to a good bio-pic than showing famous actors wearing goofy make-up.<\/p>\n As of now, not a single of last week’s indie releases has had its numbers announced. <\/p>\n 1. ‘Contraband’ (Universal) – $24,100,000<\/p>\n 2. ‘Beauty and the Beast in 3D’ (Buena Vista) – $18,490,000<\/p>\n 3. ‘Mission: Impossible \u2013 Ghost Protocol’ (Paramount) – $11,500,000<\/p>\n 4. ‘Joyful Noise’ (Warner Bros.) – $11,345,000<\/p>\n 5. ‘Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’ (Warner Bros.) – $8,410,000<\/p>\n 6. ‘The Devil Inside’ (Paramount) – $7,900,000<\/p>\n 7. ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ (Sony) – $6,800,000<\/p>\n 8. ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked’ (Fox) – $5,800,000<\/p>\n 9. ‘War Horse’ (Buena Vista) – $5,607,000<\/p>\n 10. ‘The Iron Lady’ (Weinstein) – $5,386,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some online sites that follow weekly box office totals are announcing the three-day actual weekend estimates, while others count this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day a four-day weekend, and give four-day estimates that include Monday’s prediction. In this post, I will only mention the three-day estimates since Monday can change drastically from its anticipated numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":28171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,743],"tags":[198,1403,178,4017,4404,4378,4427,2850],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28151"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28512,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28151\/revisions\/28512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Top 10:<\/h5>\n