Variety reports the top movies, in terms of box office take, for the week of 28 January-3 February 2011. The new Anthony Hopkins horror/thriller The Rite opened at #1, scaring up $18.1 million. The Green Hornet fell #2 to #5, where it battled up $13.8 million, for a three-week total of $81.1 million. Black Swan slipped from #6 to #8, swooping up $6.9 million, for a nine-week total of $92.5 million. Yogi Bear showed some strength, holding strong at #10, snatching up $3.8 million, for a seven-week total of $93.1 million.
Tron: Legacy slipped from #9 to #11, earning $3.2 million, for a seven-week total of $167.4 million. Tangled slipped from #11 to #12, spinning up $3.2 million, for a ten-week total of $190.2 million. The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader fell from #14 to #18, tallying up $1.1 million, for an eight-week total of $102.0 million. Season of the Witch fell from #12 to #19, conjuring up $1.0 million, for a four-week total of $24.0 million. Gulliver’s Travels fell from #16 to #20, tying up $900 thousand, for a six-week total of $41.1 million. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I slipped from #19 to #22, taking in $750 thousand, for an eleven-week total of $292.4 million.
Falling out of the top 25 this week was:
Megamind (last week’s #21) in its thirteenth week in release (box office total: $147.1 million)