How wild is it that the Top 6 movies from last weekend all held onto the same box office spots despite falling between 43% to 60% on average? As usual, this post-Thanksgiving weekend was a total flop. The Top 12 brought in a mere $107 million. The only numbers of note belong to a few film milestones that were crossed.
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‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2<\/strong>‘ and ‘Skyfall<\/strong>‘ continue to dominate the box office. On their third and fourth weekends respectively, the two sequels both finished in the $17 million range. ‘Skyfall’ is already at a franchise best with $246 million, but the second ‘Breaking Dawn’ movie is still a tad under the mark \u2013 domestically, that is. Internationally, it’s now the franchise best and has a worldwide total of $702.4 million.<\/p>\n Brad Pitt’s new gangster flick ‘Killing Them Softly<\/strong>‘ opened $2 million under expectations. With a CinemaScore rating of F, audiences obviously had no clue what they were walking into and sure didn’t share positive word-of-mouth to others. On more than 2,400 screens, the film took a beating with a $7 million, seventh place debut. It’s a good thing that the Weinstein Company only paid $15 million for it. But as bad as the opening performance sounds, it played better than this weekend’s other new wide release.<\/p>\n On 1,400 screens, ‘The Collection<\/strong>‘ managed to pull in $3.4 million. That’s $1 million more than predicted, and $3 million more than what I personally thought it would make. The barely-advertised horror thriller debuted a slight $160,000 under its 2009 predecessor, ‘The Collector’, which I had no clue even existed.<\/p>\n Of note this week, out of Steven Spielberg’s three films to open in the last 13 months, ‘Lincoln<\/strong>‘ is now the most successful. ‘The Adventures of Tintin<\/a>‘ brought in $77.6 million and ‘War Horse<\/a>‘ earned $79.9 million, but ‘Lincoln’ is already up to $83.7 million and counting.<\/p>\n ‘Silver Linings Playbook<\/strong>‘ and ‘Argo<\/strong>‘ may have been pushed out of the Top 10, but they’re still making noise. Despite still being on only 371 screens, David O. Russell’s ‘Playbook’ earned another $3.3 million. Its $9,005 per-screen average is the highest of the Top 12 by more than $2,000. And after eight weekends, Ben Affleck’s ‘Argo’ crossed the $100 million milestone.<\/p>\n