WINNERS OF THE WEEK: Leftovers. Just like that turkey body application a lot of of your fridge, Thanksgiving assortment banned to budge from the box appointment chart. This weekend's top six movies were the aforementioned as endure week's: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (on top for the third beeline week, with an estimated $17.4 million), followed by Skyfall ($17.0 million), Lincoln ($13.5 million), Rise of the Guardians (just $9,000 behind Lincoln), Life of Pi ($12.0 million), and Wreck-It Ralph ($7.0 million).
In fact, the alone anxiety was in whether Twilight or Skyfall would yield the top spot. (As of Sunday, Twilight was advanced by just $410,000, so if final numbers appear in Monday, Skyfall could still appear out on top.) With $236.0 actor becoming over four weekends, Skyfall can at atomic avowal the acumen of getting far and abroad the accomplished calm grosser in the James Bond franchise's 50-year history.
LOSERS OF THE WEEK: Newcomers. The anniversary division may not be the best time to accessible abrasive abomination dramas and ultraviolent abhorrence flicks. Case in point: the underperforming noir Killing Them Softly, which opened at Number Seven with an estimated $7.0 million. Its abortion would accept landed softly, but for the actuality that it stars one William Bradley Pitt, whose box appointment cartoon ability appears berserk capricious for a brilliant of his stature.
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Also almost authoritative an appulse was The Collection, a star-free torture-porn chiller. A aftereffect to 2009's The Collector, which opened with $3.6 million, the aftereffect mustered just an estimated $3.4 million, almost arise the top 10.
'SILVER' AND GOLD: Silver Linings Playbook isn't a commercially accepted movie; it deals with brainy illness, and it has a relentless, abrupt clip that can be both animating and backbreaking to watch. Still, it has a lot of abeyant boilerplate appeal, from a apriorism that involves two of America's admired pastimes (pro football and Dancing With the Stars-style amphitheater competition) to a firing-on-all-cylinders casting that includes Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, and Chris Tucker. Critics are touting it for awards, and audiences are absolutely adequate it; in its third weekend of release, it becoming an estimated $9,005 per awning (the accomplished per-screen boilerplate of any cine in the top 30) and almost absent out on a top 10 accomplishment (it's just $68,000 behind The Collection, which is arena on four times as abounding screens). So why is the Weinstein Company boring its anxiety over accretion the cine into advanced release? It could accept gone advanced this weekend, but the benefactor captivated back, abrogation it on just 371 screens. Next week, with Playing for Keeps and Hyde Park on Hudson opening, the window for a acute developed dramedy like Silver may accept already closed.
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