Box-Office Wrap-Up: Jan. 7 – Jan. 9, 2011

And then there was Little Fockers. I don’t have much to say about this film, but I do wonder… Did any of you actually contribute to the $123 million this film has made so far?

It wasn’t a very good movie, but the fact it has a 4% RottenTomatoes score versus the 17% Country Strong has points out a major flaw with that site’s ranking system.

Kid had the closest user prediction on the board for this one with a $9.7 million guess. However, Laremy remained ever so closer.

Any one ready to predict a sequel yet? Legacy is now up to $147 million domestically on a $170 million budget. Add the estimated $110 million from overseas so far and do you have enough to make another one? DVD and Blu-ray will surely add to that tally.

Black Swan has now made $61 million. Can you believe that? Who would have ever thought the smaller budgeted indie films and Oscar contenders would have done so well at the box-office this year?

Here it is, the Lifetime movie that had stars too big not to release it in theaters, but this movie is a travesty. One woman wrote in my review that she “won’t pay attention to any other reviews that Brad writes.” All I can say is that if she has found a critic she disagrees with so much she may want to stick around, might be an easy way to tell what films she’ll like and won’t, just do the opposite of what I suggest.

The Fighter was barely edged out by Country Strong but has now reached $57 million. It dipped only 30% this weekend and continues to hold well and I know a lot of you have seen it and loved it, there should be some cheering going on during the Oscars this year, or are all of you Social Network fans?

This film continues to remain in the hunt for the Best Picture front-runner position with Oscar pundits and someone wrote me this weekend saying, “It again proves that given a really good story, really good camera work, really good casting and good acting… you can make a great movie!” My mother told me something similar after I suggested she go see it. Have you seen it? What did you think? Best Picture?

We move from Oscar talk to discussing box-office once again as Yogi Bear‘s $75 million added to the Warner Bros. 2010 tally as the studio broke the all-time industry worldwide box-office record with a 2010 gross of $4.814 billion, which surpasses the prior record of $4.010 billion (set by Warner Bros. in 2009).

I can’t imagine Disney is going to ignore princesses for too much longer as Tangled has now made over $175 million. Along with merchandising that is just a number you can’t ignore.