Weekend Box-Office: ‘Contraband’ Takes #1 Over ‘Beauty and the Beast’ 3D on Golden Globe Weekend

21 years since it was first released in theaters and 20 years since it was the first animated film to ever be nominated for Best Picture and Disney has once again proven the power of storytelling sells tickets at the box-office. A great start for a film that is not only over 20 years old, but is also already available on a pristine Blu-ray edition. Hopefully more studios start releasing their old classics in wide release restored versions, but let’s do without the 3D please.

Laremy nailed the prediction on this one and while many of you predicted this one to be #1, you still had pretty solid overall predictions when it comes to its performance with John-PT coming the closest with a solid $18.2 million prediction.

Over $500 million worldwide and just under $30 million shy of Mission: Impossible II‘s $215.4 million made back in 2000. Let’s get a fourth one moving right now shall we?

Speaking of which, how do you rank the Mission: Impossible films? I love the first one, enjoy the second one as one of those guilty pleasures, the third might be my favorite in terms of action and the fourth is probably my least favorite, though I still need to see it a second time.

The Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah team-up also earned an A- CinemaScore from audiences and a critical drubbing. I wouldn’t have seen this movie to save my life, but I do wonder, were all those plastic surgery jokes written into the film because of Dolly Parton’s mangled face or did they come as a result of her casting?

As far as reader predictions go, gripmonster came closest with a nice $12.1 million prediction.

Sherlock is holding well, but that’s probably because the television trailers are telling everyone they have to see the movie twice. I mean, we do what the TV tells us don’t we?

Look at that nice little 26.5% drop. I know this film carried a lofty budget, but I think Sony is tremendously happy with the results so far considering the nature of the film. I think the audience for this one can only grow and should they be able to get David Fincher back there’s a chance The Girl Who Played with Fire could become a massive hit, especially if Fincher decides to make 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea first and really wows the audiences.

Thud! Hear that, that’s The Devil Inside running into a brick wall. If they actually think people want to see a sequel to this one they are going to have to call it something entirely different and cut a trailer twice as enticing as this one because the bad word of mouth is out there.

I don’t see why Fox wouldn’t make another one of these films, but they really need to reconsider that $75 budget.

I’ve been hard on War Horse and I feel it deserved it, but I would love to see Spielberg return with a quality epic and I have high hopes for Lincoln later this year.

Give Meryl Streep 797 more theaters and she blows it out of the park despite terrible reviews as people want to see a few days in the life of an old lady reminiscing about days long gone as her ghost of a husband haunts her.