Les Misérables and Django have strong start in the U.S. but fail to dislodge The Hobbit its remain on top.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is still going strong. Christmas Day threatened by joint outputs Django Unchained and Les Misérables, the new fantasy film directed by Peter Jackson remains at the top of the box office by collecting $ 39.2 million in its third weekend. Bringing its global revenues to 622 million. The Hobbit always a hit, but remains far short of the numbers of the first trilogy Lord of the Rings-The Fellowship of the Ring 869.3 million reported in late 2001-early 2002.
Django Unchained is offered in second place 30.6 million related this weekend. Released Tuesday, December 25, western violent Quentin Tarantino has already reported $ 64 million in five days. But over the three days of the weekend, Django starts less qu'Inglourious Basterds, which reported 38 million end of August 2009 and ended up becoming the biggest hit of his career with Pulp Fiction director of global revenues 321,400,000 .
The highly anticipated musical Les Misérables, with Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway, is the third with 28 million. The luxurious new film Tom Hopper (The King's Speech) was also released last Tuesday in all, it has already reported $ 67 million in six days. The film would have already repaid its budget assumed $ 61 million.
An outsider in fourth position: the family comedy The Clash of generations (Parental Guidance in VO), came from nowhere, starts slightly to 14.8 million. With a pitch, uh ... classical (cohabitation grandparents and their grandchildren under the same roof at Christmas) and a cast, uh ... Eclectic (Billy Crystal, Bette Midler and Marisa Tomei), this family comedy occupies the niche parties without luster, however, has claimed that 25 million small and not likely to be remembered.
Finally, the old thriller with Tom Cruise Jack Reacher closed the top 5 with $ 14 million in its second week, for total revenue of $ 67 million on the planet and just paying its estimated budget of $ 60 million.
U.S. Box Office December 28 to 30, 2012:
1) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2) Django Unchained
3) Les Miserables
4) The Clash of Generations
5) Jack Reacher
