Even though this weekend featured one major new release, nobody expected the cookie-cutter romantic comedy to take first place \u2013 and it surely didn’t. Instead, ‘Skyfall’ hopped into this measly weekend’s top spot with $11 million, which brings its nationwide five-weekend total to $261.6 million. It will be nice to see what a good weekend at the box office looks like again when ‘The Hobbit’ opens this Friday.<\/p>\n
Coming in at second place was ‘Rise of Guardians<\/strong>‘ with $10.5 million. In part due to the film’s sub-par opening, DreamWorks’ stock has dropped. Considering that there aren’t any other family flicks opening until 2013, hopefully ‘Rise’ will have some legs. The movie only dipped 21% in attendance from last weekend and is currently higher in the Top 10 than it has been over its 17-day haul.<\/p>\n ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2<\/strong>‘ slid from first place to third in its fourth weekend. The $9.2 million weekend brings its domestic total to $268.7 million. Both ‘Lincoln<\/strong>‘ and ‘Life of Pi<\/strong>‘ held onto their respective fourth and fifth place positions behind it. The $9.1 million for ‘Lincoln’ brings its five-weekend run to $97.3 million, while the $8.3 million for ‘Pi’ brings that one up to $60.9 million.<\/p>\n Finally, we get to the only new nationwide release of the weekend. Unable to crack the Top 5, Gerard Butler’s lazy rom-com ‘Playing for Keeps<\/strong>‘ debuted with only $6 million. Alongside ‘Chasing Mavericks’, this marks Butler’s second major flop in just two months. Like his washed-up character in the movie, perhaps it’s time for Butler to move on.<\/p>\n The Jake Gyllenhaal \/ Michael Pe\u00f1a cop drama ‘End of Watch<\/strong>‘ was re-released on 1,249 screens, but absolutely bombed. With a screen count more than enough to be considered “wide,” it finished the weekend in the #15 spot with only $733,000. The most painful and embarrassing aspect of this is the per-screen total of only $587. Ouch.<\/p>\n Despite pretty negative reviews, ‘Hyde Park on Hudson<\/strong>‘ warranted a decent debut. On just four screens, the film pulled in $83,300 and a $20,825 per-screen average.<\/p>\n The weekend estimates for ‘Lay the Favorite<\/strong>‘ and ‘Deadfall<\/strong>‘ have not yet been announced.<\/p>\n 1. ‘Skyfall’ (Sony) – $11,000,000<\/p>\n 2. ‘Rise of the Guardians’ (DreamWorks) – $10,540,000<\/p>\n 3. ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2’ (Summit) – $9,200,000<\/p>\n 4. ‘Lincoln’ (Buena Vista) – $9,115,000<\/p>\n 5. ‘Life of Pi’ (Fox) – $8,300,000<\/p>\n 6. ‘Playing for Keeps’ (Fox) – $6,000,000<\/p>\n 7. ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ (Buena Vista) – $4,904,000<\/p>\n 8. ‘Red Dawn’ (FilmDistrict) – $4,261,000<\/p>\n 9. ‘Flight’ (Paramount) – $3,130,000<\/p>\n 10. ‘Killing Them Softly’ (Weinstein) – $2,748,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Even though this weekend featured one major new release, nobody expected the cookie-cutter romantic comedy to take first place \u2013 and it surely didn’t. Instead, ‘Skyfall’ hopped into this measly weekend’s top spot with $11 million, which brings its nationwide five-weekend total to $261.6 million. It will be nice to see what a good weekend…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":44710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[743],"tags":[178,5092,5928,987,5559,5557,5927,5024,4418,557],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44707"}],"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=44707"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81435,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44707\/revisions\/81435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Top 10:<\/h5>\n