It took a few weeks but Disney’s “Frozen” finally took the top spot from “Catching Fire.” They are both technically in their third week but “Frozen” only opened in 1 theater its first week and I don’t think it is fair to count that. “Catching Fire” is also currently playing in about 500 more theaters than “Frozen” is. Let’s do the full top 5 and you can see how they add up.
- Frozen: $31.6 million and a 53% drop from last weekend, it is doing better than the last Disney Princess movie “Tangled.”
- Catching Fire: $27 million and a 64% drop. It will most likely continue to drop but should break $400 million domestic (currently $336) before it ends its run. Oddly enough, the foreign gross is equal to the domestic gross.
- Out Of The Furnace: $5.3 million in its opening weekend. I had to look this one up, I’d never heard of it. A Christian Bale crime flick that is getting decent reviews. A pretty terrible opening but it also opened on an odd weekend.
- Thor: The Dark World: $4.7 million bringing it to $193 million total domestic. Thor bounced back up from 5th place and is doing well but competition isn’t exactly tough.
- Delivery Man: Vince Vaughn’s bomb nabbed $3.7 million and grabbed 5th place once again. It has yet to make back its budget in its 3rd week.
The Coen Brothers newest film opened on 4 films in NYC over the weekend as well and made a little of $100k at each theater. Next weekend is going to bring us “The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug” and we’ll see just how much cash that dragon brings in.