{"id":28911,"date":"2012-01-30T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=28911"},"modified":"2018-08-31T09:04:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T16:04:07","slug":"boxoffice-jan-30-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/boxoffice-jan-30-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Box Office: ‘Grey’ Makes Green"},"content":{"rendered":"

This, the last weekend of January, turned out to be quite surprising. If you had told me in advance that an R-rated movie about a man punching-out a pack of wolves would be #1 at the box office, and that Katherine Heigl would outgross a Sam Worthington heist thriller, I wouldn’t have believed you.
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Liam Neeson not only fought off a pack of wolves in ‘The Grey<\/strong>‘ this weekend, he also fought off the rest of the box office competition as well. Expected to earn $17.9 million, ‘The Grey’ ended up pulling in a strong $20 million. From what I’ve read in the comments of Friday’s Weekend Movies post<\/a>, I’m going to have to see ‘The Grey’ as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

Heigl’s ‘One for the Money<\/strong>‘ was expected to take second place with $12.5 million, but only drew $11.7 million in sales, which left room for the $12.5 million weekend gross of ‘Underworld Awakening<\/strong>‘ to nab the #2 spot. ‘Awakening’ has grossed $45 million over the last 10 days and is only $17 million away from being highest-grossing film (domestically) in its franchise.<\/p>\n

‘One for the Money’ opened a few million less than Heigl’s last two movies, ‘Killers’ and ‘Life As We Know It’. Apparently, Groupon sold 225,000 tickets for the film at $6 each, but that $1.8 million boost didn’t seem to help out too much.<\/p>\n

‘Red Tails<\/strong>‘ earned another $10.4 million, beating out the $8.3 million premiere of ‘Man on a Ledge<\/strong>‘. While a fifth place opening for a film in this genre may not seem too impressive, it’s better than the $7.2 million, sixth place opening that was predicted. It turns out discount ‘Man on a Ledge’ tickets were also available on the site Living Social. Do you think Living Social is more popular than Groupon?<\/p>\n

Expanding to 245 screens, the Oscar nominations for ‘Albert Nobbs<\/strong>‘ didn’t draw too many viewers out. ‘Nobbs’ earned only $773,000, a not-too-impressive $3,155 per-screen average. For some reason, this weekend is considered the opening for ‘Nobbs’, even though the film technically opened in December (to qualify for the Academy Awards) and grossed $823,000 then.<\/p>\n

‘Extremely Loud & Incredible Close<\/strong>‘ only dropped 28% in attendance from last week. Oscar nominations seemed to really help the expansions of ‘The Descendants<\/strong>‘, ‘The Artist<\/strong>‘ and ‘Hugo<\/strong>‘. ‘The Descendants’ jumped 176% in attendance, ‘The Artist’ went up 40% and ‘Hugo’ climbed 142%.<\/p>\n

Top 10:<\/h5>\n

1. ‘The Grey’ (Open Road) – $20,000,000<\/p>\n

2. ‘Underworld Awakening’ (Screen Gems) – $12,500,000<\/p>\n

3. ‘One for the Money’ (Lionsgate) – $11,750,000<\/p>\n

4. ‘Red Tails’ (Fox) – $10,400,000<\/p>\n

5. ‘Man on a Ledge’ (Summit) – $8,300,000<\/p>\n

6. ‘Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close’ (Warner Bros.) – $7,145,000<\/p>\n

7. ‘The Descendants’ (Fox Searchlight) – $6,550,000<\/p>\n

8. ‘Contraband’ (Universal) – $6,500,000<\/p>\n

9. ‘Beauty and the Beast in 3D’ (Buena Vista) – $5,345,000<\/p>\n

10. ‘Haywire’ (Relativity) – $4,000,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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