Little Fockers Wins Holiday Weekend

Despite having made nearly $50 million in its five days of release Little Fockers is being viewed as a disappointment. It comes in well below the box office take of its predecessor Meet the Fockers which drew $70.5 million over the same stretch in 2004. Bad buzz, terrible reviews, and six years between films in a franchise that audiences had already grew tired of contributed to the drop. The reported $120 million budget is absurd but its opening and overseas returns will likely make it profitable still.

In second place it was western remake True Grit with $25.6 million on the weekend and $36.8 million since its Wednesday opening. That makes it the Coen Brothers best opening ever. Great reviews helped drive audiences to the film which is also garnering awards season buzz. Gulliver’s Travels was the only Christmas release, and with just two days of reporting it pulled in only $7.2 million which is certainly a poor performance. That placed it in seventh for the weekend and with a rumored budget of well over $100 million it looks to be headed to massive bomb status.

Amongst holdovers Tron: Legacy performed well dropping a respectable 54% with $20.1 million and a third place finish. As is the case with family films this time of year there were smaller drops for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (13%) and Yogi Bear (46%). They finished in fourth and fifth respectively, while The Fighter continued with strong but unspectacular returns falling just 30% to $8.5 million and sixth place. Black Swan, Tangled, and The Tourist rounded out the top 10.