It was a slow weekend at the local cineplex, with most folks apparently staying home to trim the tree rather than catch a film. Tangled turned the tables on last week’s champ, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, and pushed its total take to nearly $100 million. But the movie lost 56% of its audience en route to the title.
Potter suffered an even steeper decline, losing two-thirds of its ticket sales to post-Thanksgiving doldrums. Still, the movie has made more than $244 million so far, making it one of the year’s biggest hits. The only new release, The Warrior’s Way, pocketed just a little over $3 million—”the box-office equivalent of a sagebrush hero who’s shot dead the moment he rides into town,” according to Time’s Richard Corliss.
Me, I stayed home, too—and finally watched Toy Story 3. I didn’t cry … but it was close.
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