Anthony Hopkins Exorcism film is "Rite" things: box office report of January 28-30

Exorcism chiller, "Rite" doesn't scare as many money as predicted, but it still has possession of enough ticketbuyers can refer to the top spot at the box office.

Accordance with the Studio estimates occult horror Anthony Hopkins earned 15.0 million dollars, enough to dethrone last week champion, a romantic comedy "no strings attached." Weekend other new wide release, Jason Statham shoot-em-up "" engineer, "is established for the neck and neck tie in the third place with colleagues action spectacle" the Green Hornet, "now in its third weekend.

"Rite" was expected to score as high as 20 million dollars, because of the relative lack of horror competition (makes "Black Swan" number?), Hopkins star power and film teen girl-friendly PG-13 rating. But the reviews were weak, there is no big names, except "Hopkins" (it is left for the little-known Irish actor Colin o' Donoghue to provide youth appeal) and demonic possession of the genre can be played for some time after such recent films as "the last Exorcism ' and ' Paranormal activity ' films. However, the film uses a wide aperture of almost 3,000 screens and best full screen average (5,027 $ space) of each wide release film this week.

"No strings attached" remains strong, experiencing only 31% drop in its second weekend for $ 13.7 million. That Natalie Portman was nominated for best actress this week ("the Black Swan," still holds well in the No. 8) couldn't have hurt.

Third place is a virtual tie between "the Green Hornet" and "engineer," Studio estimates of 11.5 million dollars for both. "Hornet" that figure represents a drop of 35 percent from last weekend, but for the "engineer" is slightly of the predictions prove correct. Of Statham movies tend to open a modest, and this is expected to debut at around 10 million dollars. But as I noted advertisements, there was no football this weekend, and there was no other new service tariff to draw young male audience.

In the fifth place was "the King's speech," which takes advantage of its Uilko Oscar buzz (she was nominated for 12 awards of the Academy on Tuesday, a frontrunner in the best picture race) to add another 877 screens. The result is a 41% jump in business, to $ 11.1 million. $ 72,2 million won to date the film joins the "Black Swan" "fighter" and "social network" among the hopefuls of best picture, likely to Top $ 100 million.

Candidates "Dilizans?t," "Home" and "Toy Story 3" has already undergone and passed this figure. In fact, "Dilizans?t," the second most nominated movie this year (10 nods), I saw a modest bump this weekend, to 4 per cent despite losing 344 screens. Estimated $ 7.6 million to total up to 148.4 million dollars

Complete top 10:
1. "the rite," 15.0 million dollars (2,985 screens), the new release
2. "no strings attached," 13.7 million dollars (3,022) 39.7 million dollars total
3. "the Green Hornet," 11.5 million dollars (3,524), 78.8 million dollars
3. "engineer officer" 11.5 million dollars (2,703), new release
5. "the King's speech," 11.1 million dollars (2,557) 72,2 million dollars
6. ' Dilizans?t, ' 7.6 million dollars (3,120), 148.4 million dollars
7. "Dilemma," 5.5 million dollars (2,905), 40.6 million dollars
8. "the Black Swan, 5.1 million dollars (2,315), 90.7 million dollars
9. "fighter" $ 4.1 million (1,914), 78.4 million dollars
10. "the Yogi Bear," 3.2 million dollars (2,133), 92 75 million dollars

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