The newest scifi film at The Box Office, The Darkest Hour, debuts in the top 10 but doesn’t pull in the best numbers. It has a budget of $30mil and it’s going to struggle to make that. Let’s see if The Devil Inside can do better next week. Paranormal Activity 3 exits the chart after a long run and $104mil made domestically.
8 The Darkest Hour $8,978,000
11 8 Twilight/Breaking Dawn 1 $4,643,000 (Total: $273,445,000)
17 29 Real Steel $426,000 (Total: $84,252,000)
Ouch! The Fright Night remake debuts to horrible numbers. I was one of the few people who bought it, and I can see that everyone agreed with me… Cowboys & Aliens is the most purchased scifi film with the last Harry Potter movie close behind.
7 4 Cowboys & Aliens $3,629,000 (Total: $12,826,000)
8 6 Harry Potter/Hallows 2 $3,387,000 (Total: $83,591,000)
15 17 Pirates/Stranger Tides $1,635,000 (Total: $16,983,000)
16 Fright Night $1,311,000
18 19 Super 8 $1,180,000 (Total: $11,696,000)
23 25 Transformers/Moon $869,000 (Total: $43,999,000)
26 9 Harry Potter/Hallows 1 $758,000 (Total: $85,250,000)
Every single horror or scifi themed television show is on winter hiatus. The only shows of those genres to air were reruns, which are listed below. I think NBC is trying to kill Grimm though, because they’ve gotten in the habit of showing two episodes and then taking a break.
Terra Nova (rerun) – 3,200,000
Grimm (rerun) – 2,900,000
Fringe (rerun) – 1,390,000
The Vampire Diaries (rerun) – 970,000
The Secret Circle (rerun) – 830,000
