FOR the fourth consecutive weekend, ticket sales were down compared with the same period in 2011, as none of the fresh arrivals at the cinema was able to top $15 million. Two spots tied for No. 1: the Jake Gyllenhaal cop drama End of Watch and the Jennifer Lawrence horror vehicle House at the End of the Street, which each raked in a decent $13 million a piece. Meanwhile, Clint Eastwood’s new baseball drama, Trouble With the Curve, didn’t hit a home run with audiences, as the film collected a so-so $12.7 million.
The big weekend loser, however, was Dredd 3D, the science-fiction action film based on a British comic strip that was only able to muster up $6.3 million in sales. The film barely performed better than The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson’s drama that played this weekend in only 788 theaters, while Dredd screened in roughly 2,500 locations. After debuting with record-breaking numbers in only five cinemas last weekend, the film about a Scientology-esque cult leader took in an impressive $5 million upon its nationwide expansion. Still, business overall was slow, and receipts dropped 25 percent this weekend when stacked up with the same three-day period last year.
End of Watch received the most positive critical reviews of any of the weekend’s new wide releases, and audiences liked it best, as well. Those who saw the film assigned it an average grade of A-, according to market research firm CinemaScore. (Eastwood’s Curve received a B+ grade, while both Dredd 3D and House at the End of the Street each earned a B.) The film stars Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña as Los Angeles Police Department officers who form a close bond as they work the streets of South-Central LA together. The film was financed by Emmett/Furla Films and Exclusive Media, but Open Road Films acquired North American distribution rights for about $2 million.
The movie is the latest of Gyllenhaal’s low-to-mid-budget films to perform modestly at the domestic box office. Last year the 31-year-old’s sci-fi thriller Source Code grossed a decent $54.7 million at the US box office, but his romantic drama Love and Other Drugs took in a more disappointing $32.4 million in 2010.
House at the End of the Street is the first film that Jennifer Lawrence has appeared in since the release of the blockbuster The Hunger Games in March. The actress, who rose to fame after her Oscar-nominated turn in 2010’s Winter’s Bone, recently began generating awards buzz again after her upcoming dramedy Silver LiningsPlaybook debuted to rave reviews at the Toronto International Film Festival this month.
Here are the top 10 movies at the domestic box office, according to studio estimates and Hollywood.com:
1. End of Watch (Open Road/Emmett/Furla/Exclusive): Opened with $13 million.
2. House at the End of the Street (Relativity/FilmNation/A Bigger Boat): Opened with $13 million.
3. Trouble With the Curve (Warner Bros.): Opened with $12.7 million.
4. Finding Nemo 3D (Disney): $9.4 million on its second weekend, down 43 percent. Domestic total: $30 million. $1.3 million overseas in 12 foreign markets. International total: $7.9 million.
5. Resident Evil: Retribution (Sony): $6.7 million on its second weekend, down 68 percent. Domestic total: $33.5 million. $30.5 million overseas in 73 foreign markets. International total: $103.4 million.
6. Dredd 3D (Lionsgate/IM Global): Opened with $6.3 million.
7. The Master (Weinstein Co.): Opened with $5 million in wide release. Domestic total: $6.1 million.
8. The Possession (Lionsgate/Ghost House): $2.6 million on its fourth weekend, down 54 percent. Domestic total: $45.3 million.
9. Lawless (Weinstein Co./Yucaipa/Revolt): $2.3 million on its fourth weekend, down 47 percent. Domestic total: $34.5 million.
10. ParaNorman (Focus/Laika): $2.3 million on its sixth weekend, down 26 percent. Domestic total: $52.6 million. $3 million overseas in 39 foreign markets. International total: $29.2 million.
Source:businessmirror
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