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...decades, the movie that was No. 1 Thanksgiving weekend also won the following weekend. This time, the picture that finished second in the previous two frames rose to the top by not falling too far. The Sandra Bullock vehicle dropped 49% from last weekend, to $20.4 million, while New Moon fell 70%, to $15.7 million. All the other holdovers among the top dozen films - A Christmas Carol, Old Dogs, 2012, Ninja Assassin, Planet 51, Fantastic Mr. Fox and Precious - took a steep tumble, from 52% for A Christmas Carol to 67% for Precious...
News of the sagging revenues did not come as a shock, during what is traditionally one of the slowest weeks on Hollywood's calendar. All new movies are subject to the law of gravity, even a smash like New Moon. In 17 days, the interspecies love story sold more than 35 million tickets in North America alone, and it was bound to exhaust its fan base at some point. Meanwhile, The Blind Side's constituency, skewing older than New Moon's teen-vixen pack, took its time catching up with the movie's eloquent word of mouth...
...lowest gross of any winner since Labor Day weekend. But those rooting for an underdog had plenty to cheer about. The Blind Side - the true-life sports movie about a determined white woman and her adopted black son - finally overtook the vampires and werewolves of The Twilight Saga: New Moon at the North American wickets, according to studio estimates. And none of the three debut films in wide release could earn even half of what The Blind Side did. The only movie to spark hopes of box-office gelt and Oscar gold, Up in the Air, opened in limited release...
...selling this honorable tale of war and woe; Brothers finished third with $9.7 million. Three slots further down, the heist film Armored swiped $6.6 million, or less than a sixth of the amount the guys in the movie are stealing. That's pretty feeble for the week's only new action film, whose low-wattage cast - Matt Dillon, Laurence Fishburne, Jean Reno - assured that Armored would land in the "DVD, if at all" section of moviegoers' priorities. Barely making the top 10, with a $4 million take, was the Robert De Niro drama Everybody's Fine, a kind of weepie...
There's a Winter Weather Advisory out for Massachusetts and Rhode Island, warning against the "first plowable snowfall of the season for much of southern New England tonight...