No major surprises this weekend with the box office results, but most films did better than my predictions and the dropoffs from last weekend were not as high as I anticipated.
Skyfall pulled off the rare feat of returning to the #1 spot in its fifth weekend after Twilight had been on top for the past three weeks. The all-time highest Bond grosser added another $11 million to its coffers, considerably higher than my meager $8.5M prediction.
Rise of the Guardians had the lowest drop-off at only 21%, putting it up to #2 with $10.5 million, higher than my $7.8M forecast.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 ended its box office reign and dropped to third with $9.2 million, a million higher than my $8.2 million prediction.
Lincoln was fourth with $9.1M (I low balled with $7.4M) and Life of Pi was fifth with $8.3M (higher than my $7.3M forecast).
The critically panned Gerard Butler romantic comedy with come in sixth, as I predicted, with a disappointing $6 million. I gave it a little too much credit and predicted $7 million.
Predictions for next weekend will be up Thursday, when Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit invades theaters. Spoiler alert: I’m going to predict it opens at #1.
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