Your final, bygone box office report of 2012:
1. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - $31.9 million, closing out the motion picture year with an unexpected journey, even if our actual lives have been a year of utterly-dependable stagnation.
2. Django Unchained - $30.1 million. Because if there's one combo that always works, it's Leonardo DiCaprio, historical fiction, and then either a young, star-crosssed romance or brutally-enslaved peoples.
3. Les Misérables - $27.3 million, and already over $100 million worldwide. Pretty solid numbers for a musical prequel to Kate & Leopold.
4. Parental Guidance - $14.6 million. It seems Fox has done well to promote this one entirely on its most bankable star: the PG rating.
5. Jack Reacher - $14 million. Happy Cruise Year.
Weekend Box Office Results [Box Office Mojo]
May 13, 2013
Your weekend box office:
1. Iron Man 3 - $72.5 million, holding off Baz Luhrmann's new release to remain America's most important literary adaptation.
2. The Great Gatsby - $51 million, a strong debut despite its failing to take out last week's leader. It should hold up reaso...
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May 6, 2013
Your weekend box office:
1. Iron Man 3 - $175.3 million, making for the second-biggest opening ever behind The Avengers. People love Gwyneth Paltrow movies!
2. Pain and Gain - $7.6 million, once again proving The Rock to be our closest equivalent to a guy in an inhumanly-powe...
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April 29, 2013
While Iron Man 3 was out making $195 million overseas this weekend, here's what happened in the domestic box office:
1. Pain and Gain - $20 million. It's a weak opening by Michael Bay standards, but lucky for Michael Bay, he doesn't really worry all that much about standards.
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