#1 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 from Summit holds at #1 with a weekend gross of $41.6 million (-69.8%) in 4066 theaters (+5). Total gross to date is $220.8 million. Budget was $110 million.
#2 The Muppets from Buena Vista debuts at #2 with an opening weekend gross of $29.2 million in 3440 theaters. Budget was $45 million.
#3 Happy Feet Two from Warner Brothers drops from #2 to #3 with a weekend gross of $13.3 million (-36.9%) in 3611 theaters (+5). Total gross to date is $43.7 million. Budget is unknown.
#4 Arthur Christmas from Sony debuts at #4 with an opening weekend gross of $12.0 million in 3376 theaters. Budget is unknown.
#5 Hugo from Paramount debuts at #5 with an opening weekend gross of $11.3 million in 1277 theaters. Budget is unknown.
#6 Jack and Jill from Sony drops from #4 to #6 with a weekend gross of $10.0 million (-14.8%) in 3029 theaters (-409). Total gross to date is $57.1 million. Budget was $79 million.
Rounding out the top 12 are:
#7 Immortals drops from #3 to #7 with a weekend gross of $8.8 million (-28.1%) in 2677 theaters (-443). Total gross to date is $68.7 million. Budget was $75 million.
#8 Puss in Boots drops from #5 to #8 with a weekend gross of $7.5 million (-30.5%) in 3005 theaters (-410). Total gross to date is $135.4 million. Budget was $130 million.
#9 The Descendants jumps from #10 to #9 with a weekend gross of $7.3 million (+517.2%) in 390 theaters (+361). Total gross to date is $10.8 million. Budget is unknown.
#10 Tower Heist drops from #6 to #10 with a weekend gross of $7.1 million (+1.0%) in 2474 theaters (-468). Total gross to date is $65.1 million. Budget was $75 million.
#11 J. Edgar drops from #7 to #11 with a weekend gross of $4.9 million (-16.1%) in 1910 theaters (-37). Total gross to date is $28.8 million. Budget was $35 million.
#12 My Week with Marilyn debuts at #12 with an opening weekend gross of $1.7 million in 244 theaters. Budget is unknown.
The combined gross of the top 12 movies this weekend was $155.3 million (-27.7%).
There are no new movies debuting in wide release this weekend.
A note on “Gross”: On average, studios will earn approximately 55 percent of the final gross.
Sources:
Box Office Mojo
4 replies on “Weekend Box Office: November 25 – 27”
I was really pulling for Hugo to pull it out, but instead:
Congrats to Cougron for the smart picks!
Since there are no movies opening this week, does that mean we all take the week off?
I am putting in my picks early this week. My picks for the weekend of December 2 – 4, 2011:
1. Breaking Dawn
2. Muppets
3. Happy Feet 2
4. Arthur Christmas
5. Hugo
That’s right. I’m just taking last weekends results, and saying ditto.
Hey, Tony, looking at the BSBO Scoring page, did you forget to update the date above the scoreboard to indicate that these were the scores through the weekend ending on 11/27/2011?
YUP! Fixing it now. I remembered this morning that I hadn’t updated it and saw this comment on my way to fix it. Thanks for the reminder!