Weekly Movie Post – Dec. 27, 2009

Weekly Movie Podcast – Dec. 27, 2009 28 mins (12.6 MB)
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  • Jamie Gore and Chris Karpyszyn
  • Avatar made a lot of money and it’s not half bad
  • I forgot Mel Gibson had a career
  • I don’t think theatre owners are going to appreciate Johnny Knoxville’s next movie; or more specifically those who need to clean up the theatres after each performance.
  • All box office info come from http://www.the-numbers.com
  • Click more to see the top 5 movies from this past weekend as well as a listing of the movies coming out this week both in theatres and on DVD.

Top 5 films for the weekend ending December 20, 2009

Rank

Title

$ Wknd.

$ per Theatre

$ Overall

Weeks

1 Avatar $77.0m $22.3k $77.0m new
2 The Princess and The Frog $12.2m $3.5k $44.7m 4
3 The Blind Side $10.0m $2.9k $164.7m 5
4 Did You Hear About the Morgans? $6.6m $2.4k $6.6m new
5 The Twilight Saga: New Moon $4.4m $1.4k $4.4m 5

Theatrical Releases This Week

New to Theatres

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
It’s Complicated
Sherlock Holmes

Opening to Wide Release

Nine
Up in the Air

Premiering in Montreal

The Girl Who Played with Fire
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
A Single Man

DVD Releases This Week

(500) Days of Summer   (read my review)
All About Steve
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
District 9   (read my review)
Extract
OSS 117: Rio ne repond plus
Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day

American Presents: The Book of Love
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging
Family Guy: Something, Something, Something, Darkside
Ghost Machine
ICHI
Noble Things
Staten Island


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