Pretty boring box office this weekend. The two new big releases were Princess and the Frog and Invictus. Princess pulled in $25 million for first place, while Clint Eastwood’s Invictus landed in third with a disappointing $9 million. It’s just that Americans don’t understand foreign countries or foreign sports. What’s rugby? How do the children learn to play if Sandra Bullock doesn’t teach them? It was all a bit confusing for old Clint, who simply blamed the gooks.
Meanwhile, The Blind Side is officially a phenomenon, landing at number two with $15.4 million and passing $150 million overall. Four weeks in and it’s still playing, while New Moon, which opened the same weekend, has fallen to fourth. It’s even close to passing 2012 in cumulative gross. Clearly this is a sign that President Obummer should reduce the tax burden on rich white families so that they can afford to adopt more black kids to play football for their alma mater. What’s the problem? Everyone wins.
Elsewhere, Old Dogs has made almost $40 million so far and holy crap who is seeing this movie. If it was any more blatantly designed for stupid people, Tom Bergeron would be narrating. Full top ten below.
| Film | Weekend | Per | Total | |
| 1 | The Princess and the Frog | $25,000,000 | $7,280 | $27,880,000 |
| 2 | The Blind Side | $15,450,000 (-22.9%) | $4,560 | $150,212,000 |
| 3 | Invictus | $9,085,000 | $4,275 | $9,085,000 |
| 4 | New Moon | $8,000,000 (-48.1%) | $2,201 | $267,360,000 |
| 5 | A Christmas Carol | $6,871,000 (-11.5%) | $2,861 | $124,464,000 |
| 6 | Brothers | $5,000,000 (-47.5%) | $2,395 | $17,402,000 |
| 7 | 2012 | $4,400,000 (-35.0%) | $2,394 | $155,337,000 |
| 8 | Old Dogs | $4,396,000 (-36.2%) | $1,423 | $39,983,000 |
| 9 | Armored | $3,500,000 (-46.2%) | $1,824 | $11,747,000 |
| 10 | Ninja Assassin | $2,710,000 (-46.5%) | $1,290 | $34,307,000 |
[via CHUD, BoxOfficeMojo]
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I like how you pretend the Christmas Carol thing isn’t even happening.
Not a lot to say about it. It’s doing okay. I don’t really care about it either way. The great mo-cap experiment will continue.
I’ll bet at least half of Invictus’ gross came from guys who needed an excuse to not get dragged into ‘The Princess and the Frog’ or ‘New Moon’.
Well, as long as we are pretending things never happened, The Mighty Feklahr will continue to refuse to acknowledge that the Enterprise D ever had any other chief medical officer than Beverly Crusher, even during season 2.
I cannot believe you just dissed the star of Sniper and The Substitute. He is a national treasure, sir.
The Armored Ninja Assassin Brothers were Blind Sided by 2012 Old Dogs during an Invictus recital upon the eve of the New Moon.
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Seems like He is forgetting one…
I’m with Fek on his earlier point. Bitch couldn’t even pronounce Data.
I bet he would have gotten more butts into theaters if he had named the movie ‘Convictus’.
The frog may be with her now, but he’s been in the studio, layin’ down tracks and as soon as his shit blows up, he’s leaving her for a white princess.
I haven’t seen the Princess and the Frog, but am I safe to assume Madea made a cameo?
If black princesses beat black presidents, then I expect Obama has a bunch of bruising around his knees.
When the black princess gets locked up in the tower, she lets down her extensions so the prince can save her.
QAPLAH!
Needs curtains though, bit too… windowy;
QAPLAH!
Needs curtains though, bit too… windowy;
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Yea