In The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 has taken the top spot at the box-office with $17.4 million, which speaks to the strength of the weekend considering it took that spot with a 60.1% drop from last weekend. The film has now raked in $702.4 million worldwide.
Dipping 52% was Skyfall as it took second with a $17 million as the latest James Bond raises its domestic cume to $246 million and in third was Lincoln with a satisfying $13.5 million and a domestic total that is now at $83.6 million. I wonder, will Lincoln be able to do anything overseas?
In fourth is last weekend’s soft 3-D animated opener Rise of the Guardians, which held on a little better than some may have expected, nabbing $13.5 million, but with a $145 million budget it’s going to need more than the $48.3 million it has brought in domestically to put smiles on the faces of the folks at DreamWorks Animation.
Life of Pi dipped 46.6% from last weekend for $12 million and the $120 million budgeted CG spectacle now has $48.3 million, but I suspect this one will be able to do some business internationally.
And I guess now is finally the time to mention Killing Them Softly, a film opening night audiences decided was best served with an entirely irrational “F” CinemaScore. Of course, I don’t have any demographics on who exactly these people are, but if they are the same people that gave Here Comes the Boom an “A”, Trouble with the Curve a “B+”, Red Dawn a “B” or Taken 2 a “B+” then I think that pretty much explains it.
Killing Them Softly managed a soft $7 million from 2,424 theaters for a $2,888 per theater average. Laremy didn’t go too high with his prediction, expecting $9 million and of the readers that weighed in, Arthur Carlson‘s $7.4 million prediction was the closest.
Where Laremy definitely stumbled was with his prediction of $10 million for the horror sequel The Collection, which only managed $3.4 million from 1,403 theaters, narrowly edging out David O. Russell‘s Silver Linings Playbook, which brought in $3.3 million from 371 theaters for a $9,005 per theater average.
Looking at reader predictions, Sensei White Lotus was closest on The Collection with a $3 million prediction, which was certainly a film that had a wide range of numbers suggested.
And that does it for November and it looks like the first week of December won’t be too much better as Lay the Favorite and Playing for Keeps will be scrounging for box-office dollars before the likes of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey hits theaters one week later.
