Angelina Jolie Has the Last Laugh?

The Tourist a surprising money-maker; Little Fockers beats Jeff Bridges (twice) to win New Year's box office

By Joal Ryan Jan 02, 2011 7:07 PMTags
Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, The TouristColumbia Pictures

Little Fockers won the weekend again. True Grit won second place again. Hollywood missed Avatar again. 

For surprising box-office news you had to look to—surprise!—The Tourist.

The $100 million Angelina Jolie-Johnny Depp "bomb" hit $120 million worldwide.

Boom.

And the Golden Globe-nominated comedy (or musical) ain't done yet, even as it fell out of the domestic Top 10 after a brief three-weekend stay. Expectations were that when all is said and grossed, The Tourist could reach $200 million worldwide.

Elsewhere, Ben Stiller's and Robert De Niro's Little Fockers broke $100 million domestically, and managed to edge Jeff Bridges—twice.

Bridges' truly gritty True Grit had a fantastic second weekend, while Bridges' $170 million Tron: Legacy upped its worldwide take to $241 million.

Oscar hopeful The King's Speech finally cracked the Top 10; Ryan Gosling's and Michelle Williams' Oscar vehicle Blue Valentine finally opened—and how—grossing $180,066 off just four screens.

Overall, it was another down box-office weekend for Hollywood, as the industry continued to lack for a certain James Cameron powerhouse

Here's a rundown of the top-grossing films over New Year's weekend, per Friday-Sunday estimates compiled by Exhibitor Relations:

  1. Little Fockers, $26.3 million
  2. True Grit, $24.5 million
  3. Tron: Legacy, $18.3 million
  4. Yogi Bear, $13 million
  5. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, $10.5 million
  6. Tangled, $10.01 million
  7. The Fighter, $10 million
  8. Gulliver's Travels, $9.1 million
  9. Black Swan, $8.5 million
  10. The King's Speech, $7.6 million