Weekend Receipts: Twilight Takes Top Slot for Third Week consecutively

Breaking Beginning sparkled up slot all over again around the most quiet weekend of year, but simply have a gander in the healthy size Shame’s art house opening! Meanwhile, the most recent choices from Martin Scorsese and Alexander Payne loved a lift. However I’ve reached request: What went down towards the Muppets’ mojo? 1. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Beginning - Part 1 Gross: $16,900,000 ($247,300,000) Screens: 4,046 (PSA $4,177) Days: 3 Breaking Beginning surpassed the half-billion mark worldwide the 2009 week, so at this time it’s just adding more money towards the money pile. Still, $16 million in the third week is impressive indeed, and talks towards the lasting energy from the YA franchise. 2. The Muppets Gross: $11,200,000 ($56,137,000) Screens: 3,440 (PSA $3,256) Days: 2 (Change: -61.seven percent) Regrettably, stamina is one thing The Muppets appears to lack, evidenced with a 61.7 percent fall off from a week ago’s strong opening. Was Muppets Mania a Thanksgiving week phenomah-na-mah-na, as they say? Where are the second-wave Muppets spoof ads now, Disney? 3. Hugo Gross: $7,625,000 ($25,188,000) Screens: 1,840 (PSA $4,144) Days: 2 (Change: -32.9 %) With that said, Martin Scorsese’s Hugo worked out half way decent in the second week, carrying out a weak debut which had honours-viewers and fans concerned. Even adding 500+ screens to the theater count, Hugo had only a smidge over fifty percent from the achieve from the Muppets, for example. So keep entertaining the three-D adventure on because it, together with other family-oriented choices, find it difficult to have a foothold within the coming days. 4. Arthur Christmas Gross: $7,350,000 ($25,292,000) Screens: 3,376 (PSA $2,177) Days: 2 (Change: -39.1%) Talking about which, we arrived at Arthur Christmas. The Aardman Animation pic gained great reviews and it is timed to take advantage of holiday cheer, but audiences haven't yet uncover its delights on the bigger scale. Provide a couple of days for tot-carrying moviegoers to determine they still haven’t seen the main one movie of year which has the term “Christmas” in the title. 5. Happy Ft Two Gross: $6,000,000 ($51,785,000) Screens: 3,536 (PSA $1,697) Days: 3 (Change: -55.2%) Oh, the sad saga of Happy Ft Two. Pour out some hot buttered rum for that one because it continues its slide lower the very best 10. — — Shame Gross: $361,000 (new) Screens: 10 (PSA $36,100) Days: 1 Let’s listen to it for that NC-17 Fassbender flick, which opened up in limited release to some substantial per-screen average! Expect that one to swell and enlarge because it partcipates in further rendezvous using the art house crowd. Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.