{"id":29363,"date":"2012-02-06T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=29363"},"modified":"2018-05-10T11:19:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T18:19:09","slug":"boxoffice-feb-6-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/boxoffice-feb-6-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Box Office: ‘Chronicle’ and ‘Woman in Black’ Win Big"},"content":{"rendered":"

Super Bowl weekend doesn’t usually result in big box office earnings, but this year proved otherwise. The top five movies pulled in an estimated $95.9 million, up 31% from the same period last year. Even more surprising is the movie that took the #1 spot.<\/p>\n

‘Chronicle<\/strong>‘, the $12 million found-footage flick about three teens who obtain super powers, barely earned enough to hold off Daniel Radcliffe’s ‘The Woman in Black<\/strong>‘. Expected to finish around $17.5 million, ‘Chronicle’ closed the weekend with $22 million. Although it wasn’t strong enough to warrant an upset, ‘The Woman in Black’ earned more than $10 million above expectations, closing out the weekend just $1 million behind ‘Chronicle’ with $21 million.<\/p>\n

‘The Grey<\/strong>‘ dropped 51% in attendance, but its $9.5 million second weekend was enough to hold off the opening of ‘Big Miracle<\/strong>‘. The based-on-a-true-story tale of the rescue of three gray whales trapped in the winter ice of northern Alaska ended up pulling in $8.5 million. It’s suspected that ‘Big Miracle’ will not follow in the highly successful wake of the similar animal-driven family film ‘Dolphin Tale’. ‘Miracle’ doesn’t feature a child-centric cast, and ‘Dolphin’ had the added bonus of inflated 3D ticket prices.<\/p>\n

Rounding out the Top 5 was ‘Underworld Awakening<\/strong>‘. The fourth film in its franchise, ‘Awakening’ is only $8 million away from becoming the highest-grossing ‘Underworld’ movie to date.<\/p>\n

Despite a pathetic 16% Rotten Tomatoes<\/em> score<\/a>, Madonna’s ‘W.E.<\/strong>‘ opened (for the second time) with a staggering $45,000 on only four screens. That gives it the second best per-screen average of the weekend. Do you think the hype around her Super Bowl half-time performance had anything to do with that?<\/p>\n

Top 10:<\/h5>\n

1. ‘Chronicle’ (Fox) – $22,000,000<\/p>\n

2. ‘The Woman in Black’ (CBS) – $21,000,000<\/p>\n

3. ‘The Grey’ (ORF) – $9,500,000<\/p>\n

4. ‘Big Miracle’ (Universal) – $8,500,000<\/p>\n

5. ‘Underworld Awaking’ (Screen Gems) – $5,600,000<\/p>\n

6. ‘One for the Money’ (Lionsgate) – $5,250,000<\/p>\n

7. ‘Red Tails’ (Fox) – $5,000,000<\/p>\n

8. ‘The Descendants’ (Fox Searchlight) – $4,600,000<\/p>\n

9. ‘Man on the Ledge’ (Summit) – $4,500,000<\/p>\n

10. ‘Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close’ (Warner Bros.) – $3,925,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Super Bowl weekend doesn’t usually result in big box office earnings, but this year proved otherwise. The top five movies pulled in an estimated $95.9 million, up 31% from the same period last year. Even more surprising is the movie that took the #1 spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":29387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[743],"tags":[4571,178,3975,1744,4595,4304,1285,4288,4570],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29363"}],"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=29363"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29529,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29363\/revisions\/29529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}