For a second week in a row a scary movie took the top spot at the box office on Friday. The Roommate was the top moneymaker on Friday with about $6.4 million while Sanctum collected about $3.5 million.

The romantic comedy No Strings Attached took third place, earning about $2.9 million while award-winning The King’s Speech collected about $2.3 million, taking fourth place. Last week’s box office winner, The Rite, rounded out the top 5 with about $1.9 million.

The Green Hornet and The Mechanic both earned about $1.8 million while True Grit brought in about $1.4 million. The Dilemma earned about $1.1 million, placing ninth and critical loved Black Swan ended the top ten movies with about $1 million.

Interestingly, I am surprised The Rite took the weekend box office. I thought No Strings Attached or The Mechanic would advance better. The King’s Speech fared well in the glory of top awards from SAG and DGA.

Results:

The Rite
$15,005,000

No Strings Attached
$13,650,000

The Mechanic
$11,500,000

The Green Hornet
$11,500,000

The King’s Speech
$11,102,276

True Grit
$7,600,000

The Dilemma
$5,475,925

Black Swan
$5,100,000

The Fighter
$4,055,000

Yogi Bear
$3,165,000

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The new exorcism movie The Rite, starring Anthony Hopkins, earned the top position at the box office on Friday, besting No Strings Attached, last week’s winner.

Rite brought in about $5.1 million while Strings earned about $4.4 million. Interestingly, the new Jason Statham assassin thriller, The Mechanic, came in next earning about $3.5 million.

The 3D movie The Green Hornet placed fourth with estimate of $2.9 million. Rounding out the top five was award winner The King’s Speech, which earned about $2.8 million.

True Grit made about $1.9 million while The Dilemma brought in about $1.7 million. Natalie Portman has a second movie in the top 10 for her Golden Globe-winning role in Black Swan, which earned about $1.4 million. The Fighter collected about $976,000 with Yogi Bear 3D ending the top ten with about $587,000.

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Moviegoers welcomed No Strings Attached as their favorite movie this weekend. Most of those moviegoers were female. The movies that caught my eye were The King’s Speech and Black Swan. Both are award contenders. As a matter of fact, The King’s Speech was recognized this weekend by the PGA, which gave the Tom Hopper film a nice boost to fourth place.

Results:

1. No Strings Attached
$20,300,000

2. The Green Hornet 3D
$18,700,000

3. The Dilemma
$9,700,000

4. The King’s Speech
$9,200,000

5. True Grit
$8,000,000

6. Black Swan
$6,200,000

7. The Fighter
$4,500,000

8. Little Fockers
$4,400,000

9. Yogi Bear 3D  
$4,100,000

10. Tron: Legacy 3D
$3,700,000

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No Strings Attached, a comedy about two friends who become unlikely lovers, brought in about $7.3 million on Friday.

Buzzing behind at second place was The Green Hornet, which earned about $5.1 million while The Dilemma took in about $3 million.  Award winner and contender, The King’s Speech made roughly $2.1 million in only 1,680 theaters at fourth place. True Grit rounded out the top five with about $2 million.

Natalie Portman second film in the top ten, Black Swan took in about $1.8 million with a good old fashion toss-up for the seventh and eighth positions with The Fighter and Little Fockers earning about $1.2 million.

Two 3D movies completed the top 10: Jeff Bridges second film in the top ten, Tron: Legacy collected about $928,000 and Yogi Bear earned about $753,000.

Inherently, the award season creates such a vast difference in genre of top movies at the box office. It will be interesting to see how The King’s Speech and Black Swan place at the end of the weekend.

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Because of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday in the States, the final box office tally will be recorded tomorrow. Meanwhile, the action comedy The Green Hornet started strong this weekend with taking the Friday’s box office and now holds a three-day estimate that totals $34 million. 

Ron Howard’s comedy The Dilemma came in second with an estimated $17.4 million for the three days. 

Interestingly, The King’s Speech and Black Swan saw aggressive expansions this weekend. The King’s Speech landed in the fourth place with three-day estimates at $9.1 million while Black Swan estimated $8.1 million.

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When a movie that has been in the movies for over 3 weeks and wins the weekend box office, well…it means the movie is better than good. It’s True Grit! 

Season of the Witch is holding its own so far. It will be interesting to see how long it will remain in the top five.

Interestingly, Black Swan and The King’s Speech are both doing well for showing in fewer than 2,000 theaters. As a matter of fact, The King’s Speech is showing in fewer than 800 theaters and still brought in $6.8 million.

Results:

1.  True Grit
$15,000,000

2.  Little Fockers
$13,800,000

3.  Season of the Witch
$10,700,000

4.  Tron: Legacy
$9,800,000

5.  Black Swan
$8,400,000

6.  Country Strong
$7,300,000

7.  The Fighter
$7,000,000

8.  Yogi Bear 3D
$6,800,000

9.  The King’s Speech
$6,800,000

10.  Tangled
$5,200,000

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True Grit took Friday’s box office for the second week in a row. The Coen brothers’ movie earned about $4.5 million while the comedy Little Fockers stayed closely behind about $4.2 million. Opener Season of the Witch earned about $3.7 million while Disney 3D movie Tron: Legacy collected about $2.7 million. Rounding out the top 5 was Sony’s Country Strong, which earned about $2.575 million.

Black Swan earned about $2.4 million, surpassed The Fighter, which earned about $2.1 million. The King’s Speech collected about $1.8 while animated 3D movie Yogi Bear took the No.9 position with about $1.3 million. Finishing up the top 10 was Disney’s 3D movie Tangled, which earned about $1.1 million.

Little Fockers took the top spot at the weekend box office, but not by much. Two movies starring Jeff Bridges took second and third: True Grit and TRON: Legacy. I saw the TRON last night and was very impressed with Bridges’ performance.  He made the movie so believable, such a natural and so professional.

Results:

1.  Little Fockers
$26,300,000

2.  True Grit
$24,500,000

3.  Tron: Legacy 3D
$18,300,000

4.  Yogi Bear 3D
$13,000,000

5.  Chronicles of Narnia…Dawn Treader
$10,500,000

6.  The Fighter
$10,000,000

7.  Tangled
$10,000,000

8.  Gulliver’s Travels
$9,100,000

9.  Black Swan
$8,500,000

10.  The King’s Speech
$7,600,000

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Paramount’s True Grit took the box office away from Universal’s Little Fockers on Friday by earning $8.2 million while the Fockers earned $7.8 million.

True Grit’s box office total is $70.4 million and is the only major studio Christmas title to outperform Fockers, which has a box office total of $84.4 million.

However, Universal predicts that Little Fockers will beat out True Grit for the weekend and jump the $100 million mark.

Another interesting and positive note for the Weinstein Company is The King’s Speech beat Fox Searchlight’s Black Swan.  King’s Speech grossed an estimated $2.5 million from 700 theaters for a total of $17.6 million.

Black Swan grossed an estimated $1.9 million from 1,553 theaters for a total of $40.9 million, by far the best gross of 2010 for a specialty film released in a platform run.

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