The big, splashy fantasy film, Immortals was the top flick in theaters this weekend. The movie brought in an estimated $32 million, making its first foray out the number one film between Friday and Monday. It still has far to go to recoup its $75 million price tag, though it’s a pretty safe bet it ought to be able to reach that small goal soon.
In not so close second place was the Adam Sandler gender-bender comedy Jack and Jill with $26 mil.
Puss in Boots continues to have long legs at the box office. The animated comedy raised an additional $25.5 million over the weekend. That brings the total revenue generated to date to an estimated $108.8 mil in just three weeks.
Tower Heist dropped 45.1 percent and went from second to fourth place over the weekend. The action-adventure snatched an additional $13.2 mil bringing the box office total to $43.9 million. That’s still much lower than its $75 mil production costs since its debut on November 4th.
J. Edgar landed in fifth position raking in a modest $11.5 million for its debut in theaters. The Clint Eastwood directed biopic was in 1910 theaters, which is considerably less than the other top entries. Those pics averaged 3 thousand-plus movie houses.
Rounding out the top 10:
6. A Very Harold & Kurmar 3D Christmas $5.9 million
7. In Time $4.1 million
8. Paranormal Activity 3 $3.6 million
9. Footloose (2011) $2.7 million
10. Real Steel $2 million