Weekend Box-Office: ‘Act of Valor’ Tops Oscar Weekend as None of the Nominees Make the Top Ten
By
Brad Brevet
It’s Oscar weekend and not a single one of the nominees is in the top ten. Last year two of the year’s Best Picture nominees, including the eventual Best Picture winner, were in the top ten and four of the Best Picture nominees were in the top 20. Of course, this year four of the nine Best Picture nominees are already available on DVD and Blu-ray so it’s not exactly a fair comparison.
As for this year’s awards crop, I’ll talk a bit more about them in the closing of this article, but the front-runner for Best Picture, The Artist sits at #13 this weekend and will soon become the second lowest grossing Best Picture winner ever. The Hurt Locker is the lowest, but can you think of what the current #2 is?
Not sure what The Artist‘s box-office stature says about the potential for tonight’s Oscar ratings, but hopefully you’ll at least stop by to read our live blog of the events.
That said, let’s see how this weekend turned out.
Laremy predicted the #1 movie correctly 0 Weeks In A Row
A little bit of a surprise for me, especially when I learn an R-rated actioner was helped by church groups. Am I the only one that doesn’t quite understand the connection there?
Nevertheless, $24.7 million for Act of Valor and a #1 spot along with what was reported as an A CinemaScore from audiences in attendance. Next weekend the competition is Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax and Project X so I’m not expecting a repeat, but one weekend is enough right? Especially for a film that doubled its $12 million budget in its first three days.
Speaking of doubled up, Laremy was almost doubled up on his prediction, but Alex and Chris Etrata were both $1.3 million off with their predictions, one high and one low. Nice work fellas.
Weekend: $24.7 million RottenTomatoes Score:29% Laremy’s rank: Laremy picked it to finish #3 and his prediction of $12.8 million was $11.9m off for a percentage error of 48.18%.
Laremy expected it to be #1 with $15.4 million, so he was good on the number, bad on the position. Interest from the readers in predicting this weekend was light, perhaps due to the caliber of the week’s new releases. Most, however, agreed with Laremy and thought it would finish #1 and many were quite high, though Chris Etrata (once again) kept it close with a $15.8 million prediction.
Weekend: $16 million / RottenTomatoes:28% Laremy’s rank: Laremy picked it to finish #1 with $15.4 million, which is $0.6m off for a 3.75% error.
Only a 32% drop and this one continues to impress with family audiences. When will we hear about Journey 3 and will The Rock be back or will they find a way to bring back both The Rock and Brendan Fraser as the two compete for Josh Hutcherson’s affection.
Weekend: $13.4 million (-32.3% drop) / Cume: $76.7 million / RottenTomatoes:42% Laremy’s rank: Laremy picked it to finish #5 with $11.9 million, which is $1.5m off for a 11.19% error.
Safe House will have the pleasure of becoming the second 2012 release to hit $100 million behind…
Weekend: $11.3 million (-52.1% drop) / Cume: $98 million / RottenTomatoes:53% Laremy’s rank: Laremy picked it to finish #2 with $13.4 million, which is $2.1m off for a 18.58% error.
We have our first film to cross the century mark. It’s the second film for Channing Tatum to cross $100 million and the fourth for Rachel McAdams. Obviously the other one for Tatum was G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra, but can you name the other three for McAdams? I can think of the obvious two, but had to look up the third one.
Weekend: $10 million (-56.5% drop) / Cume: $103 million / RottenTomatoes:28% Laremy’s rank: Laremy picked it to finish #6 with $11.5 million, which is $1.5m off for a 15% error.
A 60% drop, I’m actually thinking that’s pretty good for how bad this film was. Even better, only $8 million more and it can match the opening three-day weekend for the original. Yay!
Weekend: $8.8 million (-60.2% drop) / Cume: $37.8 million / RottenTomatoes:14% Laremy’s rank: Laremy picked it to finish #7 with $10.4 million, which is $1.6m off for a 18.18% error.
It makes me a little sad to see how poorly this one is performing, it really is quite fun and was wrongly slammed. Oh well, at least I had the chance to enjoy it.
Weekend: $8.5 million (-51.1% drop) / Cume: $33.5 million / RottenTomatoes:25% Laremy’s rank: Laremy picked it to finish #8 with $10.1 million, which is $1.6m off for a 18.82% error.
How this film is rated 33% higher on RottenTomatoes is yet another reason to look at that site’s ratings and scoff. How this film gets a pass and This Means War gets trashed is beyond me. Maybe if This Means War had naked old people running in slow motion and obvious drug jokes it would have been received a little better.
Weekend: $6.6 million / RottenTomatoes:58% Laremy’s rank: Laremy picked it to finish #4 with $12 million, which is $5.4m off for a 81.82% error.
Where will Amanda Seyfried’s career go after Les Miserables and Lovelace. Both are clearly opportunities to gain a little cred after the crap she has made recently. One film has her teaming with an Oscar-winning director and the other with the capable helmers of Howl and The Times of Harvey Milk, but if we see more films like In Time, Red Riding Hood and Letters to Juliet in her future she may be a bargain bin actress for the rest of her career.
Weekend: $5 million / RottenTomatoes:15% Laremy’s rank: Laremy picked it to finish #9 with $6.4 million, which is $1.4m off for a 28% error.
Only $400,000 more to go and The Secret World of Arrietty becomes the highest grossing Studio Ghibli film ever. That is just amazing to me considering we’re talking about films such as Spirited Away, Ponyo, Howl’s Moving Castle and Princess Mononoke.
Weekend: $4.5 million (-29.7% drop) / Cume: $14.6 million / RottenTomatoes:94% Laremy’s rank: Laremy picked it to finish #10 with $4 million, which is $0.5m off for a 11.11% error.
Elsewhere, Best Picture contenders made up positions 13, 15 and 16 beginning with The Artist, which was up 23% this weekend and has now made over $31.8 million. However, while that almost doubles the box-office brought in by The Hurt Locker, it will be the second lowest grossing Best Picture winner of all-time. Can you name the current #2?
The Descendants brought in $2.2 million and is now up to $78.5 million domestically and Hugo added $1.5 million to its now $69.4 million cume.
Like I already said, next week brings Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax and Project X to theaters, which one do you have on top and how do you see Act of Valor performing in its second weekend?
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