Weekend Box Office: January 21-23, 2011
Rentrak Corporation, today announced the official weekend theatrical box office numbers for the weekend period of January 21, 2010. through January 23, 2011 according to the company’s Box Office Essentials™ theatrical box office data collection and analytical service.
The romantic pairing of Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman produced results at the domestic box office this weekend, with Paramount’s Ivan Reitman-directed No Strings Attached grossing an estimated $20.3 million, according to studio data. Last week’s No. 1 movie, Columbia Pictures’ action comedy “The Green Hornet,” dropped to second place with $18.1 million.
Lots of Oscar contenders fill out the top ten at this time of year — “King’s Speech,” “True Grit,” “Black Swan” and “The Fighter” have found their way ahead of “TRON,” Fockers” and “Yogi Bear.” But none of them will hit “TRON”’s numbers, over $150 m,illion.
| Rank | Film Name | Weekend Revenue | Cume Revenue | Locs | Loc Avg | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No Strings Attached | 20,300,000 | 20,300,000 | 3,018 | 6,726 | |
| 2 | Green Hornet, The | 18,100,000 | 63,441,243 | 3,584 | 5,050 | |
| 3 | Dilemma, The | 9,726,615 | 33,363,950 | 2,943 | 3,305 | |
| 4 | King’s Speech, The | 9,164,299 | 58,623,270 | 1,680 | 5,454 | |
| 5 | True Grit | 8,000,000 | 138,633,427 | 3,464 | 2,309 | |
| 6 | Black Swan | 6,200,000 | 83,580,631 | 2,407 | 2,575 | |
| 7 | Fighter, The | 4,515,000 | 73,031,236 | 2,275 | 1,984 | |
| 8 | Little Fockers | 4,394,025 | 141,185,640 | 2,979 | 1,475 | |
| 9 | Yogi Bear | 4,060,000 | 88,890,203 | 2,510 | 1,617 | |
| 10 | Tron Legacy | 3,708,000 | 163,267,490 | 2,018 | 1,837 | |
| 11 | Tangled | 3,006,000 | 186,280,499 | 1,860 | 1,616 | |
| 12 | Country Strong | 2,200,000 | 16,962,364 | 1,441 | 1,526 |
Greg Kinnear and Jane Curtin Join I Don’t Know How She Does It
I Don’t Know How She Does It is the upcoming Douglas McGrath‘s adaptation of the 2002 best-selling novel by Allison Pearson, and we’re here today for a little update.
As you already guess, it’s all about the cast in this one, so let’s start with the news.
Greg Kinnear and Jane Curtin have joined the cast that already includes Sarah Jessica Parker, Pierce Brosnan, Kelsey Grammar, Christina Hendricks, Olivia Munn and Seth Meyers.
In addition to that, let us mention that Kinnear will play the husband of the film’s protag, a working mom (Parker) juggling a busy professional and personal life, while Curtin has been cast as Kinnear’s mother.
Insidious Teaser Trailer
From FilmDistrict comes a brand new teaser trailer for the upcoming horror-thriller Insidious.
Insidious is the terrifying story of a family who shortly after moving discover that dark spirits have possessed their home and that their son has inexplicably fallen into a coma. Trying to escape the haunting and save their son, they move again only to discover that it was not their house that was haunted.
Rebecca Hall In Stephen Frears’ Lay The Favorite
More casting news for today! British star Rebecca Hall has been confirmed for Stephen Frears’ upcoming adaptation of Beth Raymer’s memoir Lay The Favorite: A Memoir Of Gambling.
Frears directs from a script by D.V. De Vincentis, well known team, since we all remember their collaboration on High Fidelity and Grosse Pointe Blank.
“It’s hard not to like the breezy, ingenuous voice of this plucky protagonist who proves she’s game for any kind of new experience.
Hailing from Ohio, Raymer eventually made her way to Las Vegas when she was 24 and found a lucrative position assisting a Queens-born, Stuyvesant High School-educated gambling operator, Dink Heimowitz.
The Producers Guild of America Help Predict Oscars
The King’s Speech won best-produced film from the Producers Guild of America on Saturday, a great courage to its Oscar ambitions in an awards season so far much swollen by The Social Network. On the same night the organization praised Scott Rudin, the primary producer on ” The Social Network,” with a lifetime achievement award. Other films in line for the best-produced movie of the year were Black Swan, The Fighter and Toy Story 3, which won best-produced animated film.
The Producers Guild of America represents more than 4,500 producers nationwide, prepared for its 22nd annual Producers Guild Awards — set for Saturday at the Beverly Hilton.
International Beastly Trailer and Hi-Res Photos
Check out a new trailer and high resolution photos from the upcoming fantasy romance film Beastly, which based on Alex Flinn’s 2007 novel of the same name.
Beastly is an edgy teen romance about learning how to see past false surfaces to discover true inner beauty. Kyle Kingson (Alex Pettyfer) has it all – looks, intelligence, wealth and opportunity – and a wicked cruel streak. Prone to mocking and humiliating “aggressively unattractive” classmates, he zeroes in on Goth classmate Kendra, inviting her to the school’s extravagant environmental bash. Kendra accepts, and, true to form, Kyle blows her off in a particularly savage fashion. She retaliates by casting a spell that physically transforms him into everything he despises. Enraged by his horrible and unrecognizable appearance he confronts Kendra and learns that the only solution to the curse is to find someone that will love him as he is – a task he considers impossible.
Scott Cooper to Direct The Pale Blue Eye
Scott Cooper, man responsible for the 2009 Crazy Heart movie, seems to be a very busy man these days.
According to the latest reports, his next film will be a project titled The Pale Blue Eye, which he will write and direct for Fox 2000.
The whole thing is still in development, so we have no idea what the possible plot is about, but…
We all know there’s a novel with the same name, by Louis Bayard, that follows Edgar Allan Poe’s brief time as a cadet at West Point.
Perfect Sense Trailer, Photos and Poster
Today we have the trailer photos and poster for Perfect Sense, starring Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting) and Eva Green (Casino Royale), about an epidemic that robs people of their sensory perceptions. This British movie that reunites McGregor with Ewen Bremner for the first time since Trainspotting will premiere at this years Sundance Film Festival on January 24th.
A poetic and magnetic love story about two people who start to fall in love just as the world begins to fall apart. Green plays Susan, an epidemiologist recently out of a relationship gone sour; McGregor is Michael, the charismatic chef who sweeps Susan off her feet and shows her that not all guys are a-holes; except for one tiny problem: pandemic is threatening to change the face of humanity forever.
New Hi-Res Images From Abduction
Set of official images from the new Taylor Lautner film Abduction has hit the web. The three new photos show Lautner peeking around a corner as if on the run from a threat, Lautner with Lily Collins, and Lautner on-set running behind the Abduction crew while shooting a scene.
Lionsgate hurried to start filming in July, due to Lautner’s schedule to begin work on the last two Twilight films for Summit Entertainment. Writer Jeffrey Nachmanoff was hired to work on the script, and John Singleton signed on to direct in March. Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Lee Stollman, Roy Lee, and Doug Davison are producing the film, with Jeremy Bell and Gabriel Mason executing producing. Lautner’s father, Dan Lautner, is also producing, the first film from their Tailor Made Entertainment label. Variety estimated the budget to be around $40 million.
