Critics Roundup

Critics Roundup — December 15

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows|||||Yellow Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (IMAX; wide: Dec. 21) |Green||Green||Green Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (limited) |Yellow||Green|Green|Green Carnage (limited) |Yellow||Green||Green Daguerreotypes (NY) ||||Green| Pina |Green|||Green|

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Critics Roundup — December 8

New Year’s Eve |||||Yellow The Sitter |||||Red Young Adult (limited) |Green||Green|Red Tinker, Tailer, Soldier, Spy (NY, LA) |Yellow|||Green|Green We Need to Talk About Kevin (NY, LA – one week Oscar run) ||||Green|Green In Darkness (NY, LA – one week Oscar run) |||||Green Magic to Win (limited) |Yellow||||

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Critics Roundup — December 1

Shame |Yellow||Green||Green Coriolanus (NY, LA – one week Oscar run) |Yellow||Green|| Sleeping Beauty (Julia Leigh) (limited) ||||Yellow|Red Outrage (limited) |||Yellow||

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Critics Roundup — November 24

The Muppets |Green||Red||Green Hugo |Yellow|Green|Green||Green Arthur Christmas ||||| A Dangerous Method (NY, LA) |Green|Green|Green|Green|Green My Week With Marilyn (limited) |Green|Green|Yellow||Green Rampart (NY, LA – 1 week Oscar run |Yellow|Green|Green|| The Artist |Green|Green|||Green

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Critics Roundup — November 17

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1 |||Green||Red Happy Feet Two |Green||||Green The Descendants |Green||Green||Green Tomboy |||Green|| Rid of Me |||Green|| Tyrannosaur (limited) |||Green|Green| The Lie (limited) ||||Green|

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Critics Roundup — November 10

J. Edgar |Yellow||||Green Jack and Jill |||||Yellow Melancholia (limited) |Green||Green|Green|Green Into the Abyss |||Green|Green|Green Elite Squad 2 |Green||||

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Critics Roundup — November 3

Tower Heist |Yellow||||Yellow A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas |||||Yellow The Last Rites of Joe May (limited) |||Yellow||Green Dragonslayer |||Green|| Young Goethe in Love (NY, LA) |||||

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Critics Roundup — October 27

Puss in Boots |||||Green In Time |||Green|| Like Crazy (limited) |Yellow||Green|Green|Yellow The Rum Diary |||Yellow||Green Anonymous (limited) |Yellow||||Red

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Critics Roundup — October 20

The Three Musketeers |||||Red Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey |||Yellow|Green| Johnny English |Yellow|||| Martha Marcy May Marlene |||Green|Green| The Catechism Cataclysm (NY, LA Nov 4)||||Yellow| Le Havre (LA) |Green||Green||Green Paul Goodman Changed My Life (NY) |||Green|| Margin Call |Green||Green|| Norman (limited)|||Green|| Oranges and Sunshine (NY, LA) |||Yellow|| The Swell Season (NY Oct 21) |||Green|Green|

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Critics Roundup — October 13

Footloose |Yellow||||Red The Thing |Red|||| The Big Year |||||Yellow The Skin I Live In (limited) |Green|||Green|Green Texas Killing Fields (limited) |||||Yellow The Swell Season (Austin, NY Oct 21) |||Green|Green|

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Critics Roundup — October 6

The Ides of March |Yellow||Green||Yellow Real Steel |Yellow||||Yellow Blackthorn (limited) |||Green|| Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone |||Green|Green| The Swell Season (LA., NY Oct 21) |||Green|| Dirty Girl (limited) ||||Green| The Way (limited) |||||Green 1911 (limited) |Yellow|||| Woman on the Sixth Floor (limited) |Yellow||||

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Critics Roundup — September 30

50/50 |Yellow|Green|Green||Yellow What’s Your Number? |||Yellow|| Red Tucker & Dale vs Evil (limited)|||Green|Green| Take Shelter |Green|Green|Green|| My Joy (NY) |||Green|| Sarah Palin: You Betcha! (NY, LA) ||Green||| Bunraku (limited) |Yellow|||| Margaret (limited) |Red||||

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Critics Roundup — September 23

Killer Elite |Red||Red|| Red Moneyball |Green|||| Green Dolphin Tale 3-D |||||Yellow Thunder Soul ||||Green|Green The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby |Yellow||Green|| Pearl Jam Twenty |Green||||

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Critics Roundup — September 16

Drive |Green||Green|| Green Straw Dogs |||Yellow|| I Don’t Know How She Does It |Yellow|||| Yellow Happy, Happy (NY, LA) |Green||Green||Green Restless (NY, LA) |Yellow||Yellow|Yellow| Silent Souls (NY) ||||Green| 3 (NY, LA) |||Yellow|Green|

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Critics Roundup — September 2

The Debt |Yellow|||| Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (limited) |Green||Green|| Green Shark Night 3-D |||||Red Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (NY) |||Green|Green| A Good Old Fashioned Orgy |||Red||Red Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (limited) |Green||||

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Critics Roundup — August 26

Columbiana ||||| Yellow Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark |||||Green Our Idiot Brother ||||| Yellow Chasing Madoff (limited) |||Green|| Brighton Rock (NY, LA) |Green||Yellow|| Higher Ground (NY, LA) |Yellow|||| Rien à déclarer |Yellow||||

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Critics Roundup — August 19

Fright Night ||||| One Day |Yellow||Green||Yellow Conan the Barbarian ||||| The Hedgehog (NY, LA) |Green||Green|| The Last Circus (NY) ||||Yellow| Amigo |||Yellow|| Griff the Invisible |Red|||| Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy |Green||||

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Critics Roundup — August 12

The Help |Green|Green|||Green 30 Minutes or Less |Yellow|Yellow|||Yellow Final Destination 5 |||||Yellow Senna |Green|Green|Green|| Littlerock |||Green|| Rapt |Yellow|||| Sholem Aleicham |Green||||

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Our Players Coming Soon Box Office Prophets Box Office Guru EW Box Office . com
Marvel's The Avengers53.264.460.058.0n/a
Battleship34.041.642.037.0n/a
What to Expect When You're Expecting23.714.316.019.0n/a
The Dictator17.418.216.015.0n/a
Dark Shadows14.518.913.014.0n/a
Leonard Klady's Friday Estimates
Friday Screens % Chg Cume
The Avengers 15.9 4249 -48% 417.3
Battleship 9.0 3690 NEW 9.0
The Dictator 5.7 3008 NEW 12.7
What to Expect When You're Expecting 3.8 3021 NEW 3.8
Dark Shadows 3.7 3755 -61% 41.9
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 0.85 357 29% 5.8
The Hunger Games 0.8 2064 -32% 389.4
Think Like a Man 0.8 1722 -50% 84
The Lucky One 0.6 2005 -55% 55.7
Pirates! Band of Misfits 0.35 1840 -54% 24.3
Also Debuting
Crooked Arrows 0.11 55
Laurence Anyways 23,300 26
Department 19,300 57
Hysteria 10,400 5
Lovely Molly 9,200 5
Bill W. 7,900 9
Mansome 5,800 20
Polisse 4,900 3
American Animal 3,000 1
The Samaritan 2,600 8
Elena 2,550 1
Virginia 2,250 5
Indie Game: The Movie 2,000 1
Over My Dead Body 1,850 1
Toucher le ciel 1,400 5
Beyond the Black Rainbow 1,400 1
*in millions
3-Day Estimates Weekend % Chg Cume
The Hunger Games 153.6 (37,130) NEW 153.6
21 Jump Street 20.4 (6,550) -44% 70.2
Dr. Seuss' The Lorax 13.0 (3,540) -43% 177.3
John Carter 5.0 (1,570) -63% 62.4
Act of Valor 2.0 (910) -46% 65.9
A Thousand Words 1.9 (1,050) -40% 14.9
Project X 1.9 (920) -53% 51.7
Safe House 1.4 (1,020) -50% 122.5
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 1.3 (1,000) -44% 97.1
Casa de mi Padre 1.0 (2,170) -55% 3.9
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