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Taken, Paul Blart Best Renée Zellweger, Oscar Films
Stephanie Branchu/20th Century Fox
It was a bad weekend to be an A-list actress or a Best Picture nominee. It was a good weekend—for the third weekend running—to be Paul Blart.
Kevin James' surprising Paul Blart: Mall Cop slipped to No. 2 in the box office standings, but picked up another $14 million, its studio estimated, and raised its haul to $83.4 million. Overall, the new Liam Neeson thriller, Taken, led all films with $24.6 million.
As for one Renée Zellweger and those five Oscar hopefuls…?
Zellweger's New in Town ($6.8 million) opened weaker than last spring's Leatherheads. In fact, it opened weaker than any Zellweger comedy since The Bachelor, which was really more a now-rare species known as a Chris O'Donnell comedy.
The Best Picture gang, meanwhile, didn't have much more firepower, with only the hot Slumdog Millionaire ($7.7 million) posting a Top 10-worthy gross.
In the two weekends since Oscar nominations were announced, only The Reader ($2.4 million) has seen its per-screen average rise at least once. Frost/Nixon ($1.4 million) has looked especially done—and the big show's still a month away.
Elsewhere:
• The new horror movie The Uninvited ($10.5 million) didn't quite live up to modest expectations.
• Gran Torino ($8.6 million) topped $110 million domestically, and became Clint Eastwood's top-grossing film ever as an actor or director. (Provided you don't adjust for inflation.)
• Numbers weren't available for The Dark Knight, still in about 200 theaters, but Warners exec Jeff Goldstein said today the movie was within about $1.5 million—or about two weeks—of hitting $1billion overall.
• Underworld: Rise of the Lycans ($7.2 million) dropped like a stone. Or Notorious ($1.7 million), as it were.
• After three weekends, Bride Wars ($3.6 million) was bounced from the Top 10. The $30 million comedy exits with a $53.9 million take.
Here's a recap of the holiday weekend's top-grossing films based on Friday-Sunday estimates from Exhibitor Relations:
- Taken, $24.6 million
- Paul Blart: Mall Cop, $14 million
- The Uninvited, $10.5 million
- Hotel for Dogs, $8.7 million
- Gran Torino, $8.6 million
- Slumdog Millionaire, $7.7 million
- Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, $7.2 million
- New in Town, $6.8 million
- My Blood Valentine 3D, $4.3 million
- Inkheart, $3.7 million
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