As a whole, Christmas weekend be breakin’ box office records, son:
- Biggest Friday through Sunday gross ever
- Biggest Christmas box office ever
- Most tickets ever sold in a three-day period (37.3 million)
- First weekend that three separate movies grossed more than $50 million each.
Sadly, one of those three movies was Alvin & the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel. Nonetheless, Hollywood studio execs are calling this windfall the best Christmas present ever, despite them all of them being Jews. Other facty things:
- Avatar fell only 2.6% from its opening weekend, which is impressive considering a 40-60% drop is standard for Blockbusters these days (though it should be noted that three other movies did more business than last week)
- Sherlock Holmes set a record for a Christmas-Day opening with $24.9 million
- Alvin & the Chipmunks audiences were mostly families and “heavily Latino.” I thought that was kind of funny because I didn’t know they even kept track of that stuff. They don’t ask when you buy a ticket, do they? Maybe they just take the number of stabbings and extrapolate. *whacks piñata*
- Nine bombed. It earned about $5.5 million in almost 1500 theaters. Weinstein is pulling it from the Midwest to focus advertising on the coasts. The Weinstein Company was already in financial trouble and Nine cost them $64 million. Which is a lot to pay for what appears to be the world’s longest perfume commercial. Toldja, dudes, next time go with the hooker yacht. If there’s better investment than a hooker yacht, I don’t know what it is.
Top ten:
| Movie | Weekend gross | Avg | Total | |
| 1 | Avatar | $75,000,000 (-2.6%) | $21,701 | $212,268,000 |
| 2 | Sherlock Holmes | $65,380,000 | $18,031 | $65,380,000 |
| 3 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel | $50,200,000 | $13,568 | $77,051,000 |
| 4 | It’s Complicated | $22,114,000 | $7,660 | $22,114,000 |
| 5 | Up in the Air | $11,755,000 (+266.2%) | $6,203 | $24,518,000 |
| 6 | The Blind Side | $11,730,000 (+17.1%) | $4,241 | $184,387,000 |
| 7 | The Princess and the Frog | $8,683,000 (-28.7%) | $2,499 | $63,357,000 |
| 8 | Nine | $5,544,000 (+2,055.3%) | $3,926 | $5,922,000 |
| 9 | Did You Hear About the Morgans? | $5,000,000 (-24.4%) | $1,840 | $15,597,000 |
| 10 | Invictus | $4,390,000 (+4.4%) | $2,032 | $23,365,000 |
[via CHUD, EW, BoxOfficeMojo, and LATimes]
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“Heavily Latino” was my failed rap moniker and now my 2nd favorite porn category.
Better investment than a hooker yacht? If the nonstop
Jersey ShoreGuido Beach episodes I can’t stop watching are any indication stock in Axe Bodyspray, self tanning lotions and Ed Hardy whatever are the way to go.Sorry to say it, yIntaghs, but He is off the Dayquil. No more funny. }}:>(
The Weinstein Company was already in financial trouble…
What is it? Opposite day?
What is also “heavily Latino” is the crowd in Home Depot parking lots this time of day.
Even worse, the Berenstain Company is bearly profitable.
Heavily Latino was my nickname in high school.
To be fair, the only reason Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel made so much money is Richard Gere saw it 893 times.
If ‘Alvin & the Chipmunks 3′ doesn’t feature a trip to Tijuana now, I will dance around a sombrero.
Up in the Air…please. Thats exactly where I through my hands after I saw that crap.
Obese former PGA star Heavy Lee Trevino enjoyed the squeakquel also.
Shit like that belongs in a Latrine-o.
Weinstein is pulling it from the Midwest
Sometimes being associated with the type of people that made Larry the Cable guy rich is a curse; sometimes it’s a blessing.
Heavily Latino is the accent of every customer service rep on my phone right now
I think JFK agreed with you about the hooker yacht. http://www.tmz.com
I’m more worried that four of the top-ten movies this week appeal to furries and animal fetishists.
Kevin Costner is on suicide watch after realizing James Cameron stole his idea for a sequel and used it for the premise of Avatar. “Dances With Wolves…In Space!”.
Ironically, suicide watch for Kevin Costner mainly involves people sitting around waiting to catch a glimpse of Kevin Costner killing himself.
“Heavily Latino” is how my police description starts off.
Pauly, the flyer I got in the mail when you moved into my neighborhood didn’t say that. It said “the guy from Double Dragon”.
I thought Double Dragon was the term they used to describe his crime?
Weinstein didn’t realize that when the critics said “It’s the Chicago of Italian musicals”, they were making fun of his crappy movie.
“Double Dragon” is a sex move.
“Pulling Nine from the Midwest” is how Weinstein describes having sex…yeah i took it to that level…
Poor DDL
This just in: Legions of moviegoers leave theaters disappointed when they realize Avatar is in fact, not the Ferngully remake they had long hoped for.