The World War I drama, which stars Jeremy Irvine, Tom Hiddleston and Benedict Cumberbatch, rakes in £3.2 million in ticket sales to lock the number one place. Action films Haywire and Underworld: Awakening clashed it out for second spot and third position, with Steven Soderbergh’s espionage movie earning £1.19 million against £1.11 million for Kate Beckinsale’s vampire sequel.

‘Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’ and Meryl Streep’s ‘The Iron Lady’ complete the top fourth and fifth position. Jonah Hill comedy ‘The Sitter’ debuts at number six place with £910,382 from 355 theatres.

Oscar-tipped black and white film ‘The Artist’ maintains its striking run in the UK box office. Michel Hazanavicius’s epic to silent cinema boosts its box office takings from last week to earn £770,403 in ticket sales. The Artist has now earned more than £3 million from UK movie-goers.

Meanwhile, Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar and W.E. fail to impress the top ten as they debut at numbers 12 and 14 places respectively. The latter, Madonna’s first major movie as a director, rakes £182,914 from 172 screen theaters.

The UK Box Office Top Ten Full List:

1. War Horse – £3,202,493 (1)
2. Haywire – £1,197,866 (-)
3. Underworld: Awakening – £1,114,327 (-)
4. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows – £956,434 (3)
5. The Iron Lady – £949,517 (2)
6. The Sitter – £910,382 (-)
7. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol – £815,330 (4)
8. The Artist – £770,403 (7)
9. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked – £568,758 (8)
10. Puss in Boots – £568,590 (9)

The fourth installment of the ‘Underworld’, a movie of vampire vs. lycans war with the title ‘Underworld: Awakening’ has topped the US weekend box office. It has collected an estimated gross of $25.4 million from its three-day screening. The latest version of the successful franchise has done a big job, than the two of its earlier three installments. The Kate Beckinsale starrer movie, in which she plays the role of Selene has scored an ‘A-‘ CinemaScore. The thriller film has drawn 55% of male audience, while 60% of them were above the age 25.

’Underworld 4: Awakening’ is trailed by a new entry ‘Red Tails’, based on the true story about Tuskegee training program during the World War II. The George Lucas produced film grossed $19.1 million, while the theaters in New York, Atlanta and Los Angeles emerged as the top grossers. It appealed 51% of male audience with 66% of them being above the age 25. The movie had its special screening at the White House. It was followed by ‘Contraband’ in the third spot.

The Mark Wahlberg starrer action movie that topped the US weekend box office last week, slipped to the third place with 50% fall of ticket sales. It grossed $12.2 million and added its total domestic gross to $46.1 million, from its ten-day screening in the United States theaters so far. In the fourth place is the Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock starrer drama movie ‘Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close’ a new entry on the chart. The movie has grossed $10.5 million from 2,630 theaters. Among the top 5, ‘Haywire’ another debutant managed fifth place. The Steven Soderbergh directed female centric action flick grossed $9 million, after being produced with a budget of $23 million.

Check out the top 10 movies at the US Weekend Box Office:

1. Underworld: Awakening – $25.4 million

2. Red Tails – $19.1 million

3. Contraband – $12.2 million

4. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – 10.5 million

5. Haywire – $9 million

6. Beauty and the Beast (1991) 3D – $8.5 million

7. Joyful Noise – $6 million

8. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol – $5.5 million

9. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows – $4.8 million

10. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) – $3.7 million

The Universal Picture’s R-rated action flick ‘Contraband’ with the ‘Shooter’ actor in the lead role has topped the US weekend box office. The movie has grossed $24.1 million in its three-day screening and also has performed more than the expectations. ‘Contraband’ has received ‘A-‘ CinemaScore, which drew 49% of female audience. Moreover, 69% of the audience has cited Mark Wahlberg as the reason to watch the movie.

The Baltasar Kormakur’s ‘Contraband’ is trailed by ‘Beauty and the Beast’ in second place. The 3D-release of 1991 Walt Disney Pictures’ movie, grossed $18.5 million and marked as the largest opening for an animated film in January. However, the result was far below the success of ‘The Lion King 3D’ last year that has collected $30.2 million. Meanwhile, Tom Cruise starrer ‘Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol’ secured its third place grossing $11.5 million.

The multi starrer ‘Mission Impossible 4’ has totaled its domestic cumulative of $186.7 million. But, the movie did not surpass the mark of $215.4 million set by ‘Mission Impossible 2’ in the year 2010. Comedy film ‘Joyful Noise’ a new entry has debuted in fourth place at US weekend box office. The Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton starrer flick drew the 78% of moviegoers over the age of 25 with 73% of being females. ‘Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’ is in fifth place with $8.4 million and raised its domestic gross to $170 million, from its five-week screening.

Check out the complete list of top-10 movies at US Weekend Box Office:

1. Contraband – $24.1 million

2. Beauty and the Beast (1991) 3D – $18.5 million

3. Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol – $11.5 million

4. Joyful Noise – 11.3 million

5. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows – $8.4 million

6. The Devil Inside – $7.9 million

7. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) – $6.8 million

8. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked – $5.8 million

9. War Horse – $5.6 million

10. The Iron Lady – $5.3 million

Moviegoers rang in the New Year by continuing to gather to Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol film. As the Tom Cruise’s detective sequel pulls in £2.2 million to land in first spot ahead of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, which get down to number two place, and the much-talked Margaret Thatcher biopic. The Iron Lady earns £2.1 million from 439 locations across the United Kingdom.

The Alvin Chipmunks: Chipwrecked and the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo complete the top five positions. “Puss in Boots” comes out of the top five to number six spot, while Seann William Scott comedy Goon debuts at number six place.

The Artist movie expanded its cinema run nationwide over the weekend and scaled into the top ten places. Michel Hazanavicius’s ode to silent cinema charts at number seven place with UK box office takings of £629,495 from 106 sites.

The UK Box Office Top 10 full list:

1. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol – £2,223,200 (1)

2. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows – £2,163,718 (3)

3. The Iron Lady – £2,151,368 (-)

4. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – £1,649,100 (2)

5. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked – £922,103 (4)

6. Puss in Boots – £917,161 (5)

7. Goon – £728,286 (-)

8. The Artist – £629,495 (13)

9. New Year’s Eve – £339,685 (6)

10. Hugo – £161,794 (8)

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Continue Reading »]]> ’The Devil Inside’ a horror movie has topped the US weekend box office and became the third-biggest opening of all time for early January.

The recently released small-budget horror movie ‘The Devil Inside’ has topped the US weekend box office in its opening week, as it has collected a stunning $34.5 million in its three-day screening. The supernatural movie that was produced by Paramount Pictures for just $1 million, has emerged as the third-biggest opening of all time for early January, after ‘Cloverfield’ in 2008 and ‘Star Wars’ re-release in the year 1997.

The horror movie directed by William Bent drew the young audience with 60% of them being under the age 25 and 85% under 34, with 54% being the male audience. ‘The Devil Inside’ is trailed by Tom Cruise starrer ‘Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol’, as it slipped to second place from its first position of last week, grossing $20.5 million. It dropped the ticket sales by 30% from the last week and has totaled its domestic cumulative to $170.2 million, from four-week screening in the US theaters.

Meanwhile, ‘Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’ managed to secure its third place, collecting $14 million with 34% drop of ticket sales from last week. The movie has collected a total domestic cumulative of $157.4 from four weeks. ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ that was acclaimed critically is in fourth place with $11.3 million, with just 24% of ticket sales, the smallest drop on the top ten. To round off the top-5 is ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked’ that has collected $9.5 million with a total domestic collection of $76.8 million.

Check out the top-10 movies of the US Weekend Box Office:

1. The Devil Inside – $34.5 million

2. Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol – $20.5 million

3. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows – $14 million

4. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) – 11.3 million

5. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked – $9.5 million

6. War Horse – $8.6 million

7. We Bought a Zoo – $8.4 million

8. The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn – $6.6 million

9. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – $5.7 million

10. New Year’s Eve – $3.2 million

Tom Cruise starrer action flick ‘Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol’ the fourth installment of ‘Mission Impossible’ film series has topped the US weekend box office in the last week of the year 2011 and headed into New Year as the topper at the box office. It remained on top of the chart, from its position of the Christmas weekend. It grossed $31.25 million in its three-day screening and totaled its domestic cumulative to $134.2 million.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’ the second installment of ‘Sherlock Holmes’ film series also managed to hold its second place this weekend. It grossed $22 million and is trailing behind ‘Mission Impossible 4’. Also, ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked’ remained at third place with $18.25 million. However, there is drastic change in the fourth place, as Steven Spielberg’s ‘War Horse’ jumped three places up to fourth from the last week’s seventh place with $16.9 million.

’The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ that was in the fourth place last week, aliped to fifth place grossing $16.3 million. ‘The Descendants’ starring George Clooney in the lead role, managed to enter into top 10 of the US weekend box office, after it better a place from 11th. However, the last week of the year 2011 proved to be a descent one at US weekend box office.

Check out the complete list of top 10 movies at US Weekend Box Office:

1. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol – $31.25 Million
2. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows – $22 Million
3. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked – $18.25 Million
4. War Horse – $16.94 Million
5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – $16.3 Million
6. We Bought a Zoo – $14.3 Million
7. The Adventures of Tintin – $12 Million
8. New Year’s Eve – $6.71 Million
9. The Darkest Hour – $4.3 Million
10. The Descendants – $3.65 Million

Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol has made huge collections with an estimation of $26.5 million domestically over its first weekend in full release, with a total of $59 million ever since it’s starting week earlier in huge-screen cinemas and stretched nationwide last Wednesday, and distributor Paramount expected the revenues to reach $72.7 million by Monday.

Fourth flick of Mission franchise made a huge mark over this Christmas weekend on Hollywood, the other movies that have also made good numbers on the Holiday weekend are Steven Spielberg’s Animated flick The Adventures of Tintin, David Fincher’s Thriller film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Cameron Crowe’s We Bought a Zoo, with big names of Holly like Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson and Daniel Craig.

Check out the complete standings on this holiday weekend.

1. “Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol,” $26.5 million. 

2. “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows,” $17.8 million.

3. “Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked,” $13.3 million ($20.1 million international).

4. “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” $13 million.

5. “The Adventures of Tintin,” $9.1 million.

6. “We Bought a Zoo,” $7.8 million ($1.1 million international).

7. “New Year’s Eve,” $3 million.

8. “Arthur Christmas,” $2.7 million ($9.7 million international).

9. “Hugo,” $2.03 million.

10. “The Muppets,” $2 million ($500,000 international).

A week ago, ‘Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’ the topper has secured the second place in this week with $17.8 million but has dropped 55.1% of the last week. However, the total cume is about $76.5 million after two weeks playing in cinemas. Next follows the comedy movie ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked’ that has landed on the third spot and this Mike Mitchell-directed family film has grossed about $13.3 million for a ten-day domestic total of $50.3 million.

Meanwhile, ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ has settled with number four on its debut weekend. This movie is the novel-adapted film starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara and has an estimated $13 million for a five-day domestic cume of $21.4 million. In the top fifth position, Steven Spielberg’s movie ‘The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn’ has raked in around $9.1 million in its opening week.

Top Ten Movies at Box Office for December 23 – 25:

‘Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol’                 – $26.5 million

‘Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’             – $17.8 million

‘Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked’            – $13.3 million

‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)’               – $13 million

‘The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn’ – $9.1 million

‘We Bought a Zoo’                                            – $7.8 million

‘New Year’s Eve’                                               – $3 million

‘Arthur Christmas’                                              – $2.7 million

‘The Twilight Saga’s Breaking Dawn Part I’          – $2.1 million

‘Hugo’                                                                       – $2 million

’Sherlock Holmes 2: A Game of Shadows’

Robert Downey Jr. starrer ‘Sherlock Holmes 2: A Game of Shadow’ claimed the top spot at the North American weekend box office, by grossing $40 million in its three-day screening. However, it has disappointed by performing far below its par from the expected gross of $50 million at least, as its first installment ‘Sherlock Holmes’ opened with $62.3 million when it was released in the year 2009.

Dan Fellman the Warner Bros. domestic distribution president said that, the $125 million budget movie ‘Sherlock Holmes 2’ was not expected to open with the same level of its predecessor. He expressed the hopes of doing well, as the Christmas holidays are coming up and insisted that, it would have decent box office revenues by that time and would reach the place, where the first movie has left.

A new entry ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked’ debuted at the second place in its debut weekend at US weekend box office. The live-action animated movie grossed $23.5 million. The movie was produced with a budget of $80 million. Another new entry ‘Mission Impossible 4: The Ghost Protocol’ landed in the third place in its debut weekend, by grossing $13 million. The Tom Cruise starrer movie was played in 425 IMAX screens, before it was widely released on December 21, 2011. It grossed a massive $32,000 per screen.

Rounding up the top five movies are ‘New Year’s Eve’ a star-studded movie and ‘The Sitter’ a R-rated adult comedy flick, both in fourth and fifth places grossing $7.4 million and $4.4 million respectively. ‘New Year’s Eve’ dropped with 43% on its second week, while ‘The Sitter’ dropped by 55% from its last week.

Check out the complete list of top-10 movies at US Weekend Box Office:

1. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows – $40 million

2. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked – $23.5 million

3. Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol – $13 million

4. New Year’s Eve – $7.4 million

5. The Sitter – $4.4 million

6. The Twilight Saga’s Breaking Dawn Part I – $4.3 million

7. Young Adult – $3.6 million

8. Happy Feet Two – $3.6 million

9. Hugo – 3.6 million

10. Arthur Christmas – $3.6 million

’New Year Eve’

The star-studded romantic comedy flick ‘New Year’s Eve’ has topped the US weekend box office grossing $13.7 million, in its three-day screening. However, it has marked as the lowest opening of 2011. It did not reach its mark, as it was expected to gross $20 million on its first weekend. The movie directed by Garry Marshall has received a B+ CinemaScore.

On the gross of ‘New Year’s Eve’ Dan Fellman, the president of domestic distribution of Warner Bros. Pictures said that, the box office was in a bad shape. They are still No.1 in soft market. He further said that, there were not enough moviegoers and the only thing expected is the big films over Christmas next weekend, which would help to pick up the pace.

’New Year’s Eve’ is followed by new entry ‘The Sitter’ in the second place grossing $10 million in its debut weekend. The less than $25 million budget movie starring Jonah Hill, has done good work as per its pre-weekend prediction. ‘Breaking Dawn Part 1’ which ruled the US weekend box office for three weeks slipped to the third place with $7.9 million with 52% drop in ticket sales from last weekend and added its total cumulative to $259.6. It’s predecessor ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’ grossed $267.3 million in the same time of the year.

’The Muppets’ has occupied forth place grossing $7 million with 36% drop from the last weekend. It has collected $65.2 million from its three-week screening. Rounding up the top 5 movie is ‘Arthur Christmas’ grossing $6.6 million with 11% dropping of ticket sales from the last week and has totaled its cumulative gross to $33.5 million.

Check out the top 10 movies at the US Weekend Box Office:

1. New Year’s Eve – $13.7 million

2. The Sitter – $10 million

3. The Twilight Saga’s Breaking Dawn Part I – $7.9 million

4. The Muppets – $7 million

5. Arthur Christmas – $6.6 million

6. Hugo – $6.1 million

7. The Descendants – $4.8 million

8. Happy Feet Two – $3.7 million

9. Jack and Jill – 3.2 million

10. Immortals – $2.4 million