Last weekend the wizard sequel Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 won a narrow victory and held onto the top spot at the North American box office over a busy Thanksgiving holiday frame with $49.1M in its second weekend of release, according to final studio figures. Tumbling an expected 61% from its debut, the Warner Bros. smash raised its ten-day domestic tally to an impressive $219.1M. Compared to the last installment to open on a November Friday - 2005's Goblet of Fire - Hallows opened 22% better but after ten days the lead has been cut to just 9%. Goblet even grossed more on its second weekend when it took in $54.7M over the same turkey session for a 47% decline.
Hallows still has a shot at breaking the $300M mark domestically, though it's not likely to go much past that. Overseas, the new Potter grossed an estimated $114M boosting the international total to $383M and the global haul to a stellar $602M with South Korea still to come in mid-December.
Disney showed some big muscles with its newest princess tale Tangled which debuted a hair behind in second with $48.8M and a potent $68.7M over the five-day span starting Wednesday. The PG-rated 3D animated film was always expected to have a strong showing in the number two spot but did much better than anticipated with a sizzling $13,535 average from 3,603 locations. 3D surcharges certainly helped. Tangled opened much better than the studio's 2007 princess pic Enchanted which bowed to $34.4M and $49.1M in five days. Reviews were very positive and the road ahead does not have too much competition.
Moviegoers looking for a more guy-oriented 3D toon chose former number one Megamind which slipped 22% to $12.6M. Paramount has grossed $130.2M to date with its third DreamWorks Animation title of the year.
Sony's musical Burlesque followed with a mild debut. The Christina Aguilera-Cher combo drew in $11.9M over the weekend and $17.3M across the five-day span. Playing in 3,037 sites, the PG-13 film averaged only $3,934 over the Friday-to-Sunday period and performed exactly like the studio's 2005 turkey weekend musical Rent. That film bowed to $17.1M over the Wednesday-to-Sunday session. Reviews for Burlesque were terrible and the crowd was 69% female.
Enjoying the smallest dip of any film in the top ten was Fox's runaway train flick Unstoppable which eased just 12% to $11.4M. After 17 days, the Denzel Washington film has taken in a solid $60.4M.
Coming in sixth was the Viagra comedy Love and Other Drugs which debuted to $9.7M over three days from 2,455 theaters. The Fox release averaged a so-so $3,967 and its five-day total was $13.9M. Starring Brokeback Mountain alums Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway, the R-rated film played to adults and was met with lukewarm reviews.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson suffered one of the worst openings of his career with the action pic Faster which debuted in seventh place with $8.5M from 2,454 locations for a mild $3,473 average. The CBS Films release played to an adult male crowd and grossed $12M over its five-day holiday debut which was even with the three-day launch of the actor's animated dud Planet 51 from last November. Faster cost $24M to produce with CBS kicking in half the amount plus domestic marketing costs. But unlike other films in the marketplace right now, the R-rated film actually saw daily increases from Wednesday thru Saturday so audiences do seem to be liking it.
The Warner Bros. comedy Due Date followed with $7.2M, off just 20%, for a $84.9M cume. Dropping 27% was the Russell Crowe pic The Next Three Days with $4.7M for Lionsgate upping the ten-day total to $14.4M. Morning Glory rounded out the top ten with $3.9M, down 25%, giving Paramount $26.3M to date.
Debuting with spectacular results in platform release was the Oscar hopeful The King's Speech which bowed to $355,450 from a mere four theaters for a scorching $88,863 average. The Weinstein Co. release starring Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush earned strong reviews and expands to more cities in the weeks ahead.
| # | Title | Nov 26 - 28 | Weeks | Cumulative | Distributor | ||||
| 1 | Harry Potter/Deathly Hallows Part 1 | $ 49,087,101 | 2 | $ 219,056,129 | Warner Bros. | ||||
| 2 | Tangled | 48,767,052 | 1 | 68,706,298 | Buena Vista | ||||
| 3 | Megamind | 12,575,778 | 4 | 130,218,934 | Paramount | ||||
| 4 | Burlesque | 11,947,744 | 1 | 17,300,213 | Sony | ||||
| 5 | Unstoppable | 11,432,903 | 3 | 60,442,621 | Fox | ||||
| 6 | Love and Other Drugs | 9,739,161 | 1 | 13,901,532 | Fox | ||||
| 7 | Faster | 8,523,153 | 1 | 12,002,840 | CBS | ||||
| 8 | Due Date | 7,167,885 | 4 | 84,861,008 | Warner Bros. | ||||
| 9 | The Next Three Days | 4,683,123 | 2 | 14,392,072 | Lionsgate | ||||
| 10 | Morning Glory | 3,910,058 | 3 | 26,340,571 | Paramount | ||||
| 11 | 127 Hours | 1,708,883 | 4 | 4,420,168 | Fox Searchlight | ||||
| 12 | Fair Game | 1,560,189 | 4 | 5,958,797 | Summit | ||||
| 13 | Red | 1,375,685 | 7 | 86,117,412 | Summit | ||||
| 14 | For Colored Girls... | 1,362,287 | 4 | 36,564,364 | Lionsgate | ||||
| 15 | Skyline | 1,141,440 | 3 | 20,215,790 | Universal | ||||
| 16 | The Social Network | 707,153 | 9 | 90,423,986 | Sony | ||||
| 17 | Secretariat | 647,172 | 8 | 57,547,263 | Buena Vista | ||||
| 18 | The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest | 390,888 | 5 | 4,011,260 | Music Box | ||||
| 19 | Despicable Me | 363,090 | 21 | 249,724,650 | Universal | ||||
| 20 | The King's Speech | 355,450 | 1 | 355,450 | Weinstein Co. |
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