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rottenwatch box office:

87% Tangled

79% Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1

34% Burlesque

86% Unstoppable

43% Love and Other Drugs
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46% The Warrior's Way
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86% Black Swan

metacritic box office:





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'Tangled' tops 'Potter' at weekend B.O. 3D toon bests 'Hallows' in sluggish post-holiday weekend

During an even slower post-holiday sesh than usual, Disney's "Tangled" scored a chart-topping holdover perf at the weekend's domestic B.O., down 60% in its second frame, with an estimated $21.5 million from 3,603 locations. To date, the 3D toon's overall gross stands at $96.5 million.

This year, which was down some 13% vs. the comparable 2009 frame, struggled to match similar perfs from last year's frame below the No. 2 title.

Warner Bros.' "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1" claimed that spot with an estimated $16.7 million for a 66% drop from last weekend's holiday sesh. In the weeks leading up to Christmas, Warners said it expects the film to reach $300 million domestically, with totals so far at $244.2 million.

Meanwhile, contributing to a down weekend overall, the frame saw just one wide release -- the independently financed martial arts-Western actioner "The Warrior's Way," with Relativity Media handling U.S. distrib rights. Pic underperformed with an estimated $3.1 million at some 1,622 locations.

Several specialty titles, however, held their own this weekend, including Fox Searchlight's "Black Swan" and Roadside Attractions' "I Love You Phillip Morris."

"Black Swan" became Searchlight's all-time highest opening per title, averaging $77,459 from 18 locations. And despite "Black Swan" commanding a hearty portion of the specialty biz, Roadside's pickup "Phillip Morris" still averaged $18,886 from six locations in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

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[Door2Dawn]

Black swan

 

[SoulPlaya]

Wow, why does Tangled have such a large budget?

 

[sphagnum]

Black swan

It was only in 18 theaters.

 

[DMczaf]

Black Swan almost beat 127 Hours in only 18 theaters? :lol

 

[Liu Kang Baking A Pie]

Black swan

Learn to read.

 

[GhaleonEB]

How did The Warrior's Way cost $42m? It looked like some cheap direct to video movie from the ads; the effects were hilariously bad.

I'm going to take the kids to see Tangled next weekend. The trailers made it look terrible, but I've read enough good things to want to check it out.

 

[madara]

Dang that Tangled budget is embarrassing, that cant be right. They have a hidden original hand drawn version as well, please?

 

[Majmun]

Wow, why does Tangled have such a large budget?

Seriously. Poor management comes to mind. Don't remember other animation movies being as expensive. Besides Avatar, ofcourse.

 

[Veidt]

18 theatres and made over a million? How.

 

[oatmeal]

260 million dollar budget?!?

WTF...

 

[bud]

two hundred and sixty million us dollars?

... how?!

 

[jtb]

Holy shit... 260 million?! That can't be right... I'm guessing either they counted all the restarts this project has had or they had a typo somewhere along the line, because it just doesn't make fiscal sense to green light a 260 million dollar animated movie on Rapunzel, especially one made by Disney (their previous efforts didn't exactly light up the charts).

And Harry Potter continues its steep decline and continues being quite possibly the most front-loaded franchises in box office history.

 

[DMczaf]

Wasn't Tangled in development hell for a bit? Disney probably pulled a Superman Returns and combined all of it's budgets.

 

[B_Rik_Schitthaus]

Black Swan did crazy well,

Can't wait to see its wide release numbers.

 

[Dennis]

Good showing for the two movies I want to see - Tangled and Black Swan.

 

[shawnlreed]

Wow, why does Tangled have such a large budget?

This is the only question I had after looking at the chart.
I hope Zach Levi got paid.

 

[Expendable.]

Black Swan was amazing and did amazing. Kudos!

lol Warrior's Way.

 

[Zen]

Hm I wish that Faster did better. It was such a guy movie. :lol

 

[Meier]

Dang that Tangled budget is embarrassing, that cant be right. They have a hidden original hand drawn version as well, please?

The number on there isn't provided by the studios. BOM just puts whatever has been reported. In this case, they obviously have combined all costs associated with its production including the original version. Occasionally he'll include marketing budgets in there too which can run $60-$100 million.

Typical CG animated films have a budget of around $150 million and hand drawn films are around $100 million so there ya go.

 

[starchild excalibur]

Tangled had a $260 mil budget?!

Jesus Christ

 

[DevelopmentArrested]

Black swan

"Black Swan" became Searchlight's all-time highest opening per title, averaging $77,459 from 18 locations.

Yeah poor Black Swan.


The faster Harry Potter drops off the list, the better.
WTF @ Fox Searchlight. Why hasn't 127 hours gone wide yet? The movie cost 18$ million.

 

[Solo]

Hey FOX Searchlight, Black Swan is obviously something people want to see, so how about getting on that wide release ASAP?

 

[MIMIC]

TWO HUNDRED SIXTY MILLION???

WAT @_@

 

[gdt]

Tangled was fantastic, everyone should see it.

And Black Swan better hurry the fuck up and get in my area.

 

[TheKaeptain]

Black Swan was amazing and did amazing. Kudos!

lol Warrior's Way.

Warriors Way was...not horrible. It wasn't good either. Lois was annoying and ruined most of the movie for me. Barbosa was his usual awesome self. The stylized action was alright in some scenes but no in others. Hallway scene was cool though.

Man, fistful spent a lot of money this weekend.


Edit: I agree with Solo. Release that shit everywhere!

 

[Femmeworth]

Well, I guess Tangled won't be making a profit for a good while.

 

[Ceres]

At King's Speech and Black Swan averages

Need to see both films so badly. King's Speech will probably be our Christmas Day movie.

 

[Aaron Strife]

Tangled was in development hell for six years and rebooted several times.

 

[this guy]

Holy shit... 260 million?! That can't be right... I'm guessing either they counted all the restarts this project has had or they had a typo somewhere along the line, because it just doesn't make fiscal sense to green light a 260 million dollar animated movie on Rapunzel, especially one made by Disney (their previous efforts didn't exactly light up the charts).

And Harry Potter continues its steep decline and continues being quite possibly the most front-loaded franchises in box office history.

Umm Twilight anyone? Besides, I wouldn't be surprised if its box drop rate levels out a bit as we get closer to Christmas.

 

[jett]

Wow, why does Tangled have such a large budget?

It's been in development for eight years, the directorial team has been changed three times, years of work was scrapped entirely at one point for a complete revamp.

 

[smokeymicpot]

Nice for Black Swan. Just put it in more theaters.

 

[06nbarnhill]

260 million XD

For the third best CGI animated film of the year.....

 

[cartoon_soldier]

Whats with these movie budgets?

65 million for Due Date?
100 for Unstoppable?
260 for Tangled?

lol

 

[Slayven]

Why did Burlesque cost so much?

 

[Tucah]

Saw 127 Hours this weekend, loved it.

I'm seeing Black Swan tonight, incredibly excited - really glad it did well too.

 

[jamesinclair]

Ignoring the enormous budget.....

Tangled is doing great.

SEE DISNEY PEOPLE WANT PRINCESSES AND MUSICALS!

Spoiler

just not black princesses

 

[anaron]

260 million? :O


Hope it makes it all back somehow.

 

[Lebron]

It's been in development for eight years, the directorial team has been changed three times, years of work was scrapped entirely at one point for a complete revamp.

Ah, that'd about do it.

 

[Decado]

Faster

 

[Lebron]

Faster

Clearly Vince at work trying to get him to come back to wrestling.

 

[Vyer]

Black Swan did great for it's numbers, but I'd like to see more advertising support for the wide release

 

[BertramCooper]

Yeah, Tangled's development was precarious, to put it mildly. That's why its budget looks so ridiculous.

But thankfully, the result was fantastic and it's doing solid at the B.O.

 

[Jokergrin]

Why did Burlesque cost so much?

Cher plastic surgery

 

[Door2Dawn]

Learn to read.

BLACK SWAN

 

[7Th]

Ignoring the enormous budget.....

Tangled is doing great.

SEE DISNEY PEOPLE WANT PRINCESSES AND MUSICALS!

Spoiler

just not black princesses

Tiana was a frog for most of the movie. Maybe people just want human princesses and not animal princesses.

 

[BertramCooper]

Ignoring the enormous budget.....

Tangled is doing great.

SEE DISNEY PEOPLE WANT PRINCESSES AND MUSICALS!

Spoiler

just not black princesses

People like black princesses.

They just like singing and dancing CGI rodents more.

 

[twinturbo2]

Black Swan looks awesome, and I'm a sucker for anything by Aranofsky, so I'll be there when the wide release hits.

 

[Amir0x]

Tangled was ok but about the most predictable bog standard production one can expect out of a Disney Princess production. Princess and the Frog was way better. The songs were better too.

 

[JGS]

Seriously. Poor management comes to mind. Don't remember other animation movies being as expensive. Besides Avatar, ofcourse.

Pixar's budgets are in the 200 range and they've got it down to a science. It's on the high end but animated flicks is pricey. This one had problems also.