With only one new wide release this weekend, was there ever any question as to how the box office would turn out?<\/p>\n
As expected, ‘Ice Age: Continental Drift<\/strong>‘ nabbed the top spot with a very mild $46 million. Its debut is almost exactly the same as the first ‘Ice Age<\/a>‘, but nowhere near the $68 million opening of the second installation, ‘The Meltdown<\/a>‘. While 3D usually gets a large amount of credit for opening weekend totals, that isn’t the case here. Only 35% of the ‘Ice Age’ gross came from 3D showings.<\/p>\n ‘The Amazing Spider-Man<\/strong>‘ slipped 43.6% in attendance, but still managed to land in the #2 spot. Its $35 million second weekend brought the superhero reboot past the domestic $200 million mark. With another $66 million from international showings, ‘Spider Man’ is expected to close the weekend with a worldwide total of $521.5 million. Closing in on 2.5 times its production budget, the film could be profitable by the end of the week.<\/p>\n After three weekends, ‘Ted<\/strong>‘ is still holding strong. Down only 31% from last week, the Seth McFarlane comedy added another $22.1 million. This R-rated picture has now grossed $158.9 million domestically. <\/p>\n In its fourth weekend, ‘Brave<\/strong>‘ is still moving slowly along. With a $10.6 million weekend, the film finished in the #4 spot, and now counts a domestic gross of $195.5 million. ‘Magic Mike<\/strong>‘ held onto the #5 spot and earned another $9 million. Nearing the $100 million mark, it’s no wonder that Warner Bros. is entertaining the idea of sequelizing this $7 million movie.<\/p>\n No numbers have been reported for indie opener ‘Alps<\/strong>‘, so we’ll have to wait until the actuals are released later today to see where it lands. The Weinstein Company’s domestic release of ‘Easy Money<\/strong>‘ proved to be a good business investment, as it earned $23,800 on just two screens. Paranormal thriller ‘Red Lights<\/strong>‘ earned $10,000 on its two screens. Both ‘Easy Money’ and ‘Red Lights’ are planned to have expanding platform releases.<\/p>\n 1. ‘Ice Age: Continental Drift’ (Fox) – $46,000,000<\/p>\n 2. ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ (Sony) – $35,000,000<\/p>\n 3. ‘Ted’ (Universal) – $22,147,000<\/p>\n 4. ‘Brave’ (Buena Vista) – $10,695,000<\/p>\n 5. ‘Magic Mike’ (Warner Bros.) – $9,030,000<\/p>\n 6. ‘Savages’ (Universal) – $8,735,000<\/p>\n 7. ‘Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection’ (Lionsgate) – $5,600,000<\/p>\n 8. ‘Katy Perry: Part of Me’ (Paramount) – $3,735,000<\/p>\n 9. ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ (Focus) – $3,662,000<\/p>\n 10. ‘Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted’ (Paramount\/DreamWorks) – $3,500,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With only one new wide release this weekend, was there ever any question as to how the box office would turn out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":37830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,743],"tags":[178,2647,5382,343,5062,4546,566,4828],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37688"}],"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=37688"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38018,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37688\/revisions\/38018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Top 10:<\/h5>\n