Top 10 Weekend Box Office: December 11 to 13, 2009

This weekend previous to the Avatar release, the top 1 movie in the Box Office goes to Disney’s The Princess and the Frog. This is the return to the hand-drawn musical fairy tale format of Disney tradition and adds some contemporary twists.

Twilight: New Moon keeps falling, now from second to fourth Place.

2012 with 5 weeks hasn’t earned back the $200 million dollars that it cost.

Movies that Premiered in the weekend

• The Princess and the Frog: with the voices of Anika Noni Rose, Bruno Campos, Keith David, Michael-Leon Wooley, Jennifer Cody, Jim Cummings, Peter Bartlett, Jenifer Lewis, Oprah Winfrey, Terrence Howard, John Goodman, Elizabeth M. Dampier, Breanna Brooks. Directed by Ron Clements, John Musker, both directed Hercules.
• Invictus: with Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Tony Kgoroge, Patrick Mofokeng, Matt Stern, Julian Lewis Jones and Bonnie Henna. Directed by Clint Eastwood

Box Office USA

1. The Princess and the Frog, Disney. Budget: $105 millions.
   Weekend Gross: $25,000,000. Total Gross: $25,000,000 in its first week.
2. The Blind Side, Warner Bros. Budget: $29 millions.
   Weekend Gross: $15,450,000. Total Gross: $150,212,000 in 4 weeks.
3. Invictus, Lionsgate. Budget: $60 millions.
   Weekend Gross: $9,085,000. Total Gross: $9,085,000 in its first week.
4. The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Summit. Budget: $50 millions.
   Weekend Gross: $8,000,000. Total Gross: $267,360,000 in 4 weeks.
5. A Christmas Carol, Buena Vista. Inversión de $200 millions.
   Weekend Gross: $6,871,000. Total Gross: $124,464,000 in 6 weeks.
6. Brothers, Lionsgate. Budget: $26 millions.
   Weekend Gross: $5,000,000. Total Gross: $17,402,000 in 2 weeks.
7. 2012, Sony Pictures. Budget: $200 millions.
   Weekend Gross: $4,400,000. Total Gross: $155,337,000 in 5 weeks.
8. Old Dogs, Disney. Budget: $35 millions.
   Weekend Gross: $4,396,000. Total Gross: $39,983,000 in 3 weeks.
9. Armored, Screengems. Budget: $20 millions.
   Weekend Gross: $3,500,000. Total Gross: $11,747,000 in 2 weeks.
10. Ninja Assassin, Warner Bros. Budget: $40 millions.
    Weekend Gross: $2,710,000. Total Gross: $34,307,000 in 3 weeks.

The following movies from the previous Top 10 Box Office are no longer in the list: Planet 51 and Everybody’s Fine.

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Post author: Daniel Semper