Despite competition from a bunch of new Christmas releases, December’s biggest hits continue to be holdovers from earlier in the month.
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Three-week-old ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug<\/strong>‘ slipped only 5% over the post-Christmas weekend, adding another $29.8 million. To date, the second film in the prequel trilogy has earned $190.3 million domestically. Internationally, it has grossed $423.8 million, for a 17-day worldwide haul north of $614 million. <\/p>\n Disney’s ‘Frozen<\/strong>‘ finished the holiday weekend just $1 million behind ‘The Hobbit’, but up 46% in attendance from the previous weekend. After five weeks on more than 3,000 screens, the animated princess musical has pulled in $248.3 million domestically and $243.5 million internationally, giving it a $491.8 million worldwide run so far.<\/p>\n Even ‘Anchorman 2’ and ‘American Hustle’, both of which have been playing wide for more than ten days now, opened ahead of the many Christmas Day releases. ‘Anchorman 2<\/strong>‘ added another $20.1 million to its $86.3 million run, and ‘American Hustle<\/strong>‘ added another $19.5 million to its $60 million run. <\/p>\n Meanwhile, the brand new Christmas movies don’t show up on the list until the #5 spot.<\/p>\n ‘The Wolf of Wall Street<\/strong>‘ garnered the best opening of the new releases. On 2,537 screens, the Martin Scorsese drama grossed $18.5 million over the three-day weekend and $34.3 million over its first five days. Despite being very R-rated, as well as riddled with drugs and graphic sex, the film is expected hold over well as its awards buzz grows.<\/p>\n ‘Saving Mr. Banks<\/strong>‘ beat Ben Stiller’s feel-good ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty<\/strong>‘, which opened in the #7 spot. From 2,909 locations, ‘Mitty’ earned $13 million over the weekend and $25.5 million over its first five days. Fox believes that it will hold over well due to its PG rating and lack of family-friendly competition (aside from ‘Frozen’, which should start tapering off).<\/p>\n Six-week-old ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire<\/strong>‘, which is just $9 million away from crossing the domestic $400 million mark, beat out Universal’s enormous $200 million flop ‘47 Ronin<\/strong>‘. Keanu Reeves’ PG-13 fantasy action flick only pulled $9.8 million over the weekend and $20.5 million over its first five days. Nevertheless, Universal says not to feel bad for its loss, as 2013 has been a highly successful year and the studio has been accounting for this expected flop throughout the year.<\/p>\n Rounding out the Top 10 was Tyler Perry’s ‘A Madea Christmas<\/strong>‘ with $7.4 million, bringing its 17-day haul up to $43.7 million.<\/p>\n If you’re paying attention to the wide releases, you’ll notice that I haven’t mentioned ‘Grudge Match<\/strong>‘. That’s because it couldn’t even crack the Top 10. The geriatric boxing flick debuted in the #11 spot. $7.3 million came in over the actual weekend and a total of $13.4 million during the full five days.<\/p>\n As bad as ‘Grudge Match’ performed, the new Justin Bieber documentary did even worse. Sure, ‘Believe<\/strong>‘ opened on only 1,037 screens, but that’s no excuse for the awful $2 million debut. The movie’s $1,942 per-screen average is lower than that of any of the 13 films that opened ahead of it.<\/p>\n The weekend’s most notable indie releases grabbed great returns. ‘August: Osage County<\/strong>‘ (which opened on Friday) earned $179,500 from five locations, giving it a $35,900 per-screen average. ‘Lone Survivor<\/strong>‘ (which opened on Christmas Day) grossed $92,500 from just two locations, for a per-screen average of $46,250 and a five-day total of $155,400. Both will expand wide over the next couple weeks.<\/p>\n 1. ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’ (Warner Bros.) – $29,850,000<\/p>\n 2. ‘Frozen’ (Buena Vista) – $28,845,000<\/p>\n 3. ‘Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues’ (Paramount) – $20,150,000<\/p>\n 4. ‘American Hustle’ (Sony) – $19,550,000<\/p>\n 5. ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ (Paramount) – $15,510,000<\/p>\n 6. ‘Saving Mr. Banks’ (Buena Vista) – $14,021,000<\/p>\n 7. ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ (Fox) – $13,000,000<\/p>\n 8. ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ (Lionsgate) – $10,200,000<\/p>\n 9. ’47 Ronin’ (Universal) – $9,869,000<\/p>\n 10. ‘Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas’ (Lionsgate) – $7,400,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Despite competition from a bunch of new Christmas releases, December’s biggest hits continue to be holdovers from earlier in the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":59277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[743],"tags":[6737,7027,1170,7028,178,7004,7030,2951,2257,6736,2803,7032,7033,5251,6606],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59274"}],"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=59274"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59409,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59274\/revisions\/59409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Top 10:<\/h5>\n