Of this weekend’s three wide releases, not one met box office expectations. The most star-studded couldn’t even crack the Top 5.
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Considering that nothing big has opened in a weeks, it’s no surprise that ‘Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters<\/strong>‘ took first place. Yet even with this box office win, its weekend numbers weren’t anything for Paramount to get excited about. The film was expected to land around the $25 million mark, but only managed to bring in $19 million. Critics have lambasted the comedic genre flick, but larger audiences showed up than I personally expected. (I pegged it to open in the low teens.) I caught an IMAX 3D showing on Thursday night and found the movie surprisingly entertaining. A lot of its fun doesn’t translate through in the trailers. However, I still disagree with Paramount’s decision to release the R-rated cut. The movie has very little R-rated content, and would have had a more successful opening with a PG-13.<\/p>\n The highest that any other new release opened was fifth place. Week-old PG-13 horror flick ‘Mama<\/strong>‘ and Oscar contenders ‘Silver Linings Playbook<\/strong>‘ and ‘Zero Dark Thirty<\/strong>‘ all beat out Jason Statham’s latest revenge action vehicle, ‘Parker<\/strong>‘. Its $7 million, fifth place debut is lower than Statham’s last movie (‘Safe<\/a>‘), so we might be seeing a downward trend in his bankability.<\/p>\n Even though ‘Parker’ opened $.6 million below studio expectations, it still performed better than the cameo-heavy ‘Movie 43<\/strong>‘. Predicted to close the weekend with $8.9 million, the raunchy comedy only earned $5 million. Even so, with a budget of only $6 million, distributor Relativity Media shouldn’t be too disappointed.<\/p>\n None of the limited releases have had weekend estimates announced yet.<\/p>\n 1. ‘Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters’ (Paramount) – $19,000,000<\/p>\n 2. ‘Mama’ (Universal) – $12,860,000<\/p>\n 3. ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ (Weinstein) – $10,000,000<\/p>\n 4. ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ (Sony) – $9,800,000<\/p>\n 5. ‘Parker’ (FilmDistrict) -$7,000,000<\/p>\n 6. ‘Django Unchained’ (Weinstein) – $5,005,000<\/p>\n 7. ‘Movie 43’ (Relativity) – $ 5,000,000<\/p>\n 8. ‘Gangster Squad’ (Warner Bros.) – $4,200,000<\/p>\n 9. ‘Broken City’ (Fox) – $4,000,000<\/p>\n 10. ‘Les Miserables’ (Universal) – $3,912,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Of this weekend’s three wide releases, not one met box office expectations. The most star-studded couldn’t even crack the Top 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":46538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,743],"tags":[198,178,5686,6049,6047,6051,5861,5555],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46378"}],"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=46378"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46644,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46378\/revisions\/46644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Top 10:<\/h5>\n