The $52 million John Travolta-Jonathan Rhys Meyers vehicle From Paris with Love earned a paltry $8.1 million ($2,983 per screen) on its opening weekend. Following in fourth place was Mel Gibson’s Edge of Darkness with $7 million, a 59.3 percent drop from the previous weekend. The $80 million revenge thriller has earned a very disappointing $29m after ten days.
At #5, Dwayne Johnson’s The Tooth Fairy, co-starring Julie Andrews, had a — relatively speaking — surprisingly low attendance drop rate from last weekend: 35 percent. The fantasy comedy earned $6.5m for a total of $34 million after two and a half weeks.
The Kristen Bell-Josh Duhamel romantic comedy When in Rome was #6 with $5.5m, a 55.4 percent drop from last week, followed by Denzel Washington’s post-apocalyptic drama The Book of Eli with $4.8m (45.7 percent drop). Jeff Bridges‘ Crazy Heart, now playing at 813 theaters, was #8 with $3.6m, a good $4,457 per screen. Legion was next with $3.4m and $34.6 million to date.
Rounding out the top twelve were Robert Downey Jr’s Sherlock Holmes ($2.63m), Sandra Bullock’s The Blind Side ($2.6m), and George Clooney’s Up in the Air ($2.35m).
The Oscar nominations announcement coupled with an increase in number of screens helped movies as diverse as Crazy Heart (580 more screens, a 58.1 percent increase), Carey Mulligan’s An Education (above, 915K at 686 more screens, a 668 percent increase), Colin Firth’s A Single Man ($631K at 137 more screens, a 14 percent increase), Gabourey Sidibe’s Precious ($440K at 447 more screens, a 104 percent increase), Helen Mirren’s The Last Station ($371K at 42 more screens, a 337 percent increase), and Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon ($132K at 4 more screens, a 12.9 percent increase).
Up in the Air is playing at 117 more screens than last week. Even so, the comedy-drama dropped 16.7 percent; a relatively small reduction, but a reduction nevertheless. The Blind Side lost 11 screens and had a small 13.9 percent drop.
The Oscars seem to have made little — if any — difference to the weekend’s box-office performance of Avatar, The Princess and the Frog, Sherlock Holmes, The Lovely Bones, or Nine.
Photos: Dear John (Scott Garfield / Dear John, LLC); From Paris with Love (Nico Torres / Lionsgate); An Education (Kerry Brown / Sony Pictures Classics)
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