Animation has disappeared from the top of the movie list.
Friday Box Office
1 MAMA (Universal) -- $10,000,000
2 ZERO DARK THIRTY (Columbia) -- $4,550,000 ($42,895,000)
3 BROKEN CITY (Fox) -- $3,000,000 ($3,000,000)
4 SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK -- $2,954,000 ($46,913,000)
5 GANGSTER SQUAD (Warner Bros.) -- $2,665,000 ($25,775,000) ...
Rise of the Guardians has pretty much run its course. And Wreck-It Ralph is ready for video. But recent domestic totals:
Domestic Accumulations
Rise of the Guardians -- $98,936,363
Wreck-It Ralph -- $179,507,304
Frankenweenie -- $35,074,948
An animation veteran who went to Cal Arts with Tim told me he thinks Frankenweenie is a terrific film, but has suffered at the box office because it's black-and-white.
The black-and-white is terrific, but a lot of my friends won't go to a movie in black-and-white. They accept old features in B & W, but not new ones. ...
And there might be other reasons: general audiences don't want to see the corpse of a beloved pet raised from the dead, no matter how entertaining that might be. Creeps them out.
Add On: The Weekend Tally --
1. Mama 1/2,647, Universal, $33 million
2. *Zero Dark Thirty, 5/2,946, Sony/Annapurna, $18.7 million, $57 million
3. *Silver Linings Playbook, 10/2,523, The Weinstein Co., $13 million, $57 million
4. Gangster Squad, 2/3,103, Warner Bros., $10.3 million, $33.4 million
5. A Haunted House, 2/2,160, Open Road Films/IM Global, $9.7 million, $31.3 million
6. Broken City, 1/2,620, Fox/New Regency, $9.5 million.
7. *Les Miserables, 4/2,579, Universal, $9.25 million, $131.8 million
8. *Django Unchained, 4/3,012, The Weinstein Co., $9.23 million, $139.4 million
9. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, 6/2,323, Warner Bros./New Line, $7.7 million, $288.7 million
10. The Last Stand, 10/2,027, Lionsgate, $7.2 million.
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