Past Weekends Box Office
"Holmes" may have won the weekend with an estimated $40 million, according to Box Office Mojo, but that figure fell far below the original's $62.3 million in 2009. Lukewarm reviews may have contributed to the slump, but most critics said the sequel, at the very least, lived up to the original. The duo of Robert Downey Jr.and Jude Law couldn't capture the same box-office magic as two years ago.
"Chipwrecked" couldn't come close to the numbers posted by the past two entries in the series, sinking to a distant second behind "Holmes" with an estimated $23.5 million during its opening weekend. That's a $25.4 million drop from 2009's "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel" and a $20.8 million fall from the original. The tumble in tickets came despite a "B+" cinema score.
"Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol," on the other hand, broke records with its limited open. The film launched on roughly 300 IMAX screens around the country and raked in an impressive $13 million. That broke the record for the highest-grossing limited opening ever. "Ghost Protocol" opens wide on Wednesday.
Last week's leader, the even more disappointing "New Year's Eve" and "The Sitter" rounded out the top five with huge dips in their second weekends. "New Year's Eve" fell 43 percent, earning just $7.4 million, and Jonah Hill's "Sitter" dropped even further with $4.4 million.
In smaller releases, despite snubs from the Screen Actors Guild and theGolden Globes, "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" continued to put up solid numbers. The spy film expanded from four to 16 theaters and added an estimated $452,000 to its 10-day total of $852,000.
Source:www.mtv.com
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