{"id":45591,"date":"2013-01-07T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T17:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=45591"},"modified":"2018-02-20T12:20:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T20:20:49","slug":"boxoffice-jan-7-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/boxoffice-jan-7-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Box Office: Two Movies Enter, One Movie Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first weekend of January only gave us two new nationwide releases, four noteworthy expansions, and not a single limited opening. Of the two wide releases, only one has had its numbers announced (so far), so this will be a short post.
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The yet-to-be-announce box office title of the week is Andy Garcia’s ‘A Dark Truth<\/strong>‘. You’ll have to check the weekend actuals to see where that one landed.<\/p>\n

I figured that ‘The Hobbit’ or ‘Django Unchained’ would beat out ‘Texas Chainsaw 3D<\/strong>‘, but Leatherface took a chainsaw to Middle Earth and slavery, pulling in $23 million from 2,654 screens. While this is a very strong opening for the franchise, The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> points out<\/a> that it’s not a great one for horror movies in January. Last year, ‘The Devil Inside’ scored $33.7 million on the exact same weekend. There has been no word yet about how well the 3D showings performed.<\/p>\n

Without the help of 3D, ‘Django Unchained<\/strong>‘ remained in the #2 spot by only falling 33%, nabbing another $20 million. On its 13th day of release, ‘Django’ crossed the $100 million mark. Currently at $106.3 million, if\/when the gritty Blaxploitation flick passes $120 million, it will replace ‘Inglourious Basterds’ as Tarantino’s highest-grossing film.<\/p>\n

‘The Hobbit<\/strong>‘ fell from first place on its fourth weekend. ‘An Unexpected Journey’ slipped 45% in attendance and earned another $17.5 million. Peter Jackson’s fourth venture to Middle Earth has now made $263.8 million domestically.<\/p>\n

The other big Christmas release, ‘Les Miserable<\/strong>‘ initially had a strong start, but was quickly passed by ‘Django’. ‘Les Mis’ dropped 42% this weekend, pulling in $16.1 million and slipping to fourth place. While the movie also crossed the $100 million mark this weekend, it only resides at $103.6 million.<\/p>\n

Closing out the Top 5 was ‘Parental Guidance<\/strong>‘. It pains me to say that this title is almost completely profitable. With the help of another $10.1 million weekend, the $25 million-budgeted movie has now made $52.7 million.<\/p>\n

Of the expanding titles this weekend, the only one to really make any noise was ‘Zero Dark Thirty<\/strong>‘. Katheryn Bigelow’s drama jumped from five screens to 60 and earned $2.7 million in the process. With a total of $4.4 million from three weeks as a limited release, the film still had a fantastic per-screen average of $45,833. It will be interesting to see what it does this coming weekend as it expands wide.<\/p>\n

None of the other expansions did so well. ‘Promised Land<\/strong>‘ climbed from 15 screens to 1,676 and managed to claim the number #10 with $4.3 million, but its $2,573 per-screen average was pretty pathetic. ‘The Impossible<\/strong>‘ went from 15 screens to 572, earned $2.7 million and warranted a modest $4,825 per-screen average. Worst of them all was the rock star coming-of-age drama ‘Not Fade Away<\/strong>‘. Expanding from 19 to 565 screens, it only earned $280,000 over the weekend, for a depressing per-screen average of $496. With a 17-day total at $427,000, I think it’s fair to label the $20 million flick a failure.<\/p>\n

Top 10:<\/h5>\n

1. ‘Texas Chainsaw 3D’ (Lionsgate) – $23,000,000<\/p>\n

2. ‘Django Unchained’ (Weinstein) – $20,082,000<\/p>\n

3. ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ (Warner Bros.) – $17,525,000<\/p>\n

4. ‘Les Miserable’ (Universal) – $16,117,000<\/p>\n

5. ‘Parental Guidance’ (Fox) – $10,125,000<\/p>\n

6. ‘Jack Reacher’ (Paramount) – $9,300,000<\/p>\n

7. ‘This is 40’ (Universal) – $8,559,000<\/p>\n

8. ‘Lincoln’ (Buena Vista) – $5,258,000<\/p>\n

9. ‘The Guilt Trip’ (Paramount) – $4,530,000<\/p>\n

10. ‘Promised Land’ (Focus) – $4,312,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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