No Box Office Bounty For T-Day Weekend: ?Breaking Dawn? Still #1, ?The Muppets? #2, ?Happy Feet? #3, ?Arthur Xmas? #4, ?Hugo? #5

FRIDAY PM/SATURDAY AM, 4TH UPDATE: Full analysis later this morning. But overall Thanksgiving holiday weekend moviegoing is looking like $230 million, which is�still down -12% from last year.�So the North American box office slump continues. Nevertheless, the Friday after T-Day is�traditionally the biggest moviegoing day of the year, and this one didn’t disappoint. Parents and kids did�come�back into theaters Friday for�some of the new family fare which didn’t speed out of the theatrical gate Wednesday or Thursday. It helped that critics�bestowed good reviews and audiences gave great CinemaScores to�Disney’s rebooted�The Muppets which earned an ‘A’ and Sony Pictures’ Arthur Christmas an ‘A-’.�But Summit Entertainment’s holdover Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part 1 is still the undisputed winner of the holiday weekend derby.�Martin Scorsese’s 3D film Hugo scored 97% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoesis and is holding its own considering that it’s playing on 2,000 less screens than all the competition.�But it also cost a fortune after going wildly over budget. Meanwhile, The Weinstein Co didn’t provide new numbers yet for platforming its Oscar-buzzed My Week With Marilyn which added 61 markets�including Canada for 244 runs Friday.�It made $156K Wednesday and $155K Thursday for a projected $2M for the 5-day holiday.�The Weinstein ... Read More »

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