Variety reports the top movies, in terms of box office take, for the week of 4-10 March 2011. Three new genre films opened at the top of the charts. The Johnny Depp animated/Western/animal film Rango opened at the top of the charts, rounding up $45.6 million. Matt Damon’s sf thriller The Adjustment Bureau opened at #2, arranging $27.0 million. The newest film version of Beauty and the Beast, Beastly, opened at #3, making $11.9 million. Gnomeo & Juliet slipped from #3 to #5, romancing up $8.7 million, for a four-week total of $85.5 million. I am Number Four fell from #4 to #9, earning $7.5 million, for a three-week total of $48.2 million.
Black Swan again showed strength, holding steady at #15 for its third consecutive week, swooping up $1.4 million, for a fourteen-week total of $105.5 million. Tangled, too, put in a strong showing, climbing from #22 to #18, spinning up $1.0 million (more than twice what it earned last week, as it appeared on 25% more screens), for a fifteen-week total of $196.0 million.
Falling out of the top 25 this week were:
The Green Hornet (last week’s #18) in its eighth week in release (box office total: $97.1 million)
The Rite (last week’s #21) in its sixth week in release (box office total: $32.7 million)