Box Office Wrap-Up 2/112013

Box Office Wrap-Up

Identity Thief opened big this weekend exceeding most peoples expectation with $36.5 million easily taking the number one spot.

Dropping to number 2 is the Rom-Zom-Com (or is it Zom-Rom-Com) Warm Bodies with $11.5 million. 

The other big new release this weekend Side Effects landed in 3^rd with only $10 million.  A lot different than the last time Channing Tatum and Steven Soderbergh teamed up with Magic Mike that opened with $39 million. 

Still hanging out in the top 5 is Silver Linings Playbook. In its 13^th week it made $6.9 million for the fourth spot.

Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters rounds out the top 5 with $5.75 million.

Jessica Chastain stars in movies that are in the 6^th and 7^th spot. With Mama making $4.3 million and Zero Dark Thirty making $4 million.

Argo managed to jump back into the top 10 riding the wave of award season wins and additional theatres it made $2.5 million for the 8^th spot. 

The 4^th best pic nominee to be in the top 10 this weekend was Django Unchained which made $2.2 and has become Quientin Tarantino’s highest grossing movie.

Still managing to stay in the top 10 was the Sylvester Stallone action movie Bullet to the Head with $1.98 million. 

And just missing the top 10 was the 3D release of Top Gun which made $1.9 million from 300 IMAX screens.