Weekend Box-Office: January 21-23, 2011

WEEKEND BOX-OFFICE

Natalie
Portman strikes again!

The lame month of January
continues this weekend with the "so-so"
reviewed NO STRINGS ATTACHED starring Natalie Portman and Demi
Moore’s husband cracking the #1 spot with close to $20M in
grosses. The film apparently only cost about $25M and could not
have been released at a better time, as Portman’s stock is about
as high as it can get (and speaking of "high", check
this shit out, yo!).

I still can’t believe that NO
STRINGS ATTACHED was directed by Ivan Reitman, director of
GHOSTBUSTERS! (some of you younger kids may also know him as
director "Jason Reitman’s dad") The last time a Kutcher
film was #1 was in 2008, with a little something called WHAT
HAPPENS IN VEGAS (we all remember that classic, right?) The last
time a Portman film was #1 was in 2006, with a great little
something called V
FOR VENDETTA. Love that flick!

Last week’s #1 movie, THE GREEN HORNET, managed
the biggest drop in the top 10 (along with THE DILEMMA), losing
46% of its audience from last weekend, but sticking around in 2nd
place in the meantime (the film has grossed $64M in the first 10
days of its release). We can’t say the same for Ron Howard’s THE
DILEMMA, which has only scored $33M after 10 days of release
despite an impressive-sounding cast.

The movie that surprised me the most in this
week’s top 10 was THE KING’S SPEECH though, which managed to make
the exact same amount as last weekend (that means a 0% change),
while maintaining the 4th spot just like last week as well. This
comes right on the heels of the film finally beating out THE
SOCIAL NETWORK in these year-end awards, as it surprised many to
win "Best Picture" at last night’s Producer
Guild of America awards (so many awards, so little…meaning).

For those scoring at home, despite LITTLE FOCKERS
generating $141M since its release a few weeks ago, it’s to note
that both MEET THE PARENTS ($166M) and its sequel MEET THE FOCKERS
($279M) made more cash than the latest incarnation, so hopefully
we won’t be seeing MOTHER FOCKERS anytime soon. Wow…I still
can’t believe MEET THE FOCKERS made so much scratch! That movie
sucked, man!

Next week sees the release of the latest
(hopefully) crop of dump flicks including Anthony Hopkins’
"mortgage payment movie" entitled THE
RITE and the one cool looking January flick (in my humble
opinion) starring the always fun Jason Statham and the rock-solid
Ben Foster in the remake of THE
MECHANIC. There’s also the limited release of FROM
PRADA TO NADA, but you don’t really give a shit about that
one, do you? That’s what I thought. Pssst, check out the Camilla
Belle photo gallery instead…probably a lot more
entertaining. So which movie do you think will be #1 next weekend?
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