The results are in for the typically slow post-Thanksgiving weekend and no real surprises here. As expected, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 and Skyfall battled for #1 spot, with the vampire flick edging out Bond. Twilight earned $17.4 (slightly above my $17.1M projection), with 007 at #2 with $17 million (slightly above my $16.7M). Lincoln came in third with $13.5 million, not holding up quite as well as I predicted (I guessed $15.4M). Rise of the Guardians held up slightly better than I predicted, grossing $13.5 million for fourth place (I predicted $12.8M). And Life of Pi dipped a bit more than I predicted – it made $12 million for fifth place (I predicted $13M).
I wrote that Brad Pitt’s Killing Them Softly would struggle to reach double digits and predicted $9.6 million. It actually fared much worse, only grossing $7 million, representing Pitt’s worst live action opening in 18 years for a pathetic seventh place. Ouch.
Disney’s Wreck It Ralph was in sixth with $7 million and Red Dawn placed eighth with $6.5 million, just slightly above my $6 million projection.
New predictions for next weekend will be up Thursday!
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