Personally, I don’t see Little Fockers as an ideal way to celebrate Christmas, but loads of people apparently disagreed. The Ben Stiller/Robert De Niro-fronted comedy took the weekend’s box office title, collecting an estimated $34 million en route. True Grit, the Coen Brothers’ new take on John Wayne’s classic Western, rode in at No. 2 with $25.6 million.
So it was an easy victory for the crass comedy, right? Well, technically, yes. But, in the odd alchemy that is box-office prognostication, Little sorta lost (twice as many people saw its 2004 predecessor, Meet the Fockers, during its first weekend), and Grit (by far the biggest opening for those notoriously quirky Coen Brothers) sorta won.
No matter how you slice the holiday moviegoing pie, though, Jack Black’s take for his new film, Gulliver’s Travels, looked as diminutive as a Lilliputian, snagging a mere $7.2 million for seventh place.
By the way, some encouraging news for you Narnia-watchers out there. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader finished fourth this weekend with $10.8 million (finishing between TRON: Legacy and Yogi Bear). Dawn Treader’s gross dipped a mere 13% below what it earned last weekend, which means the sturdy little ship hasn’t sunk yet.
I personally didn’t see anything over the Christmas holiday, opting instead to stay at home and eat about eight dozen of my wife’s ginger snaps. What about you?
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