Image Credit: Lorey SebastianTrue Grit topped the box-office chart for the second Friday in a row, slipping 46 percent to gross $4.5 million, according to early estimates. The Western is about $120,000 shy of becoming the Coen brothers’ first film to pass $100 million, a milestone it will certainly reach today. But will True Grit manage to hold on to first place by the end of the weekend, or will Little Fockers storm in from behind to snatch victory once again? That’s exactly what the Ben Stiller-Robert De Niro comedy did last weekend. The movie finished yesterday just beneath True Grit with $4.2 million — a 45 percent drop from last Friday. My hunch is that True Grit will just barely fend off Little Fockers to win the frame, with both films headed toward weekend tallies of around $14 million.
The medieval supernatural thriller Season of the Witch started its crusade in third place with $3.7 million, and is headed for a weekend debut of just under $10 million. The result will be star Nicolas Cage’s worst wide-release opening since 2008′s Bangkok Dangerous. The weekend’s other new wide release, the music drama Country Strong, expanded to 1,424 theaters and collected $2.6 million on Friday — enough for fifth place. Sandwiched in between the two films was Disney’s TRON: Legacy, which slid 46 percent for $2.7 million, bringing its cumulative total to $140.8 million. The sci-fi epic will likely finish the weekend in third place with approximately $10 million. Check back here on Sunday for the complete box office report.
1. True Grit — $4.5 mil
2. Little Fockers — $4.2 mil
3. Season of the Witch — $3.7 mil
4. TRON: Legacy — $2.7 mil
5. Country Strong — $2.6 mil
Box office preview: True Grit takes another shot at Little Fockers
No surprise that both “Country Strong” and “Witch” are doing poorly. Neither film looks good, and neither got good reviews.
Country Strong has a 15 million dollar budget and only opened on about 1,500 screens so the weekend average will be around $5,000 pr screen. It`s not doing great, but it`s no bomb either. It will make it`s money back and then some.
Who? Who? is seeing LIttle Fockers?
People.
Dumb people.
True Grit was really good although the movie score was terrible, sounded like a period piece drama rather than a good western, also the lady who sings the first song as the credits start to roll is god awful, how she got to be a singer is beyond me
Apparently you have never attended church. The music is wonderful.
What in the world does a persons attendance to church have to do with liking or disliking a score. Church music is horrific…
The music sucked, its a western, not a sermon. Jesus wept!
Maybe you should read the book. Mattie is a church-going young girl who was probably familiar with the songs of the church.
First of all whether I have been to church has nothing to do with the comment I made, since you seem to be so curious about my faith I was raised catholic so I have heard enough church music, and church music can be pretty in rare occasions, the music in True Grit however was totally wrong, it ruined the mood in soooooo many scenes because it is out of place with the tempo of the movie
The name of the song sung was “Leaning On The Everlasting Arms”, highlighted as symbolic as Mattie falls into a hallucinogenic stupor and Rooster is forced to carry her. I’m an atheist and I understand the artistic use.
And watching the movie, you’re supposed to know everything from the book as well? That’s not really a strong argument for the movie.
Little fockers suck brain dead fans only one’s see it.
Ops seeing it was typeing like a Focker
Try again.
Looks like there is no way Tron is going to make $200 million.
Tron has made 110 million overseas… which means it has made over a 1/4 of a billion dollars so far.
Yes and it still has a long ways to go before it is going to break even for Disney.
It already broke even, it cost 170 million, lay off the hater-aid.
The reality is very few people outside of Disney know the actual budget (production plus marketing)…but I am guessing it is substantial, to put it mildly.
Given these numbers, Disney may recoup their costs, but I wouldn’t be holding my breath for a sequel.
Having just watched Knowing on free Showtime, can expectations for Season Of The Witch be any gloomier???
It was not a bad movie . Not what I thought it was going to be but season of the witch was good plus the witch was Hot
Umm a 3% on rottentomatoes would suggest otherwise.
Doh did not c that plus I was in a lot of pain that day too so maybe it was bad lol
Lol 60plus people say it was good Season of the Witch was good think I make it 61:
Ops I ment 60 percent like it bad day for me all sry about that
True Grit deserves it. What an amazing movie; I got to see it last night. I don’t usually like Westerns, but I loved it.
Gweneth is desaprate to ‘stay young’. Appearing on ‘Glee’ and trying to sing? She is 40, not 28 anymore, the 90′s are long gone.
She only got where she is through nepotism and connections. But she still knows how to play the PR game and has great PR people to keep her in the press and on big magazine covers when most actresses with her track record wouldn’t get anything. I remember in the 90s this chick was praised as some goddess. Now no one goes to her movies but she still gets treated as someone important in the press. lol. She’s like Demi Moore in that respect.
I know! What has she been in the last few years? Iron Man? Such a failure. Iron Man 2? Talk about bomb. You are so wise, no one goes to see her movies. No one! And don`t give me the reason people saw those movies was not Gwyneth, she was in them, they were hits, people watched her latest movies. Deal with it.
Saying people went to see Iron Man because of Paltrow is like saying people went to see the Dark Knight because of Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Name me the last STARRING Paltrow movie that has been a hit because of her involvement, not in spite of it.
Bounce? Duets? Ummm …View from the Top?
Her severed head in Se7en doesn’t count either.
You know what? I see now what many Hollywood people have said, the general public are too fixated on box office and know too much about how much a film cost and how much it makes. In the 70s, when filmmakers were given more freedom, they didn’t have this ranking films and obsessing over box office gross like they were football scores. It sends a bad message. People begin to root for some films to be a low gross and think that means the film is bad, or they think a film doing really well means it’s good. It’s better if we don’t know too much about this stuff.
Country Strong rocked! I encourage all country movie lovers to go see it! Reminded me of Walk the Line!
Jeff Bridges is Da Man! Tron and True Grit! Better give him that Oscar for True Grit.