Monday Morning Box Office Report: New Year’s Eve Rings in Slow Weekend

Posted by on December 12th, 2011   Filed under: Box Office
Source: Box Office Mojo

The Twilight Saga finally slipped from the top of the box office charts this weekend as both New Year’s Eve and The Sitter overtook it, although they ultimately failed to put up big numbers themselves. New Year’s Eve led the way with just $13.7 million, which is a far cry from the $56.3 million that Valentine’s Day made last year. Meanwhile The Sitter was the worst debut for a Jonah Hill movie to date, although it made slightly more than David Gordon Green’s Your Highness did back in April. The Muppets and Arthur Christmas rounded out the top 5. The big surprise of the weekend, however, was Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, which made $300,000 on just 4 screens. So why wasn’t this given a wide release again?

1. New Year’s Eve — $13.7M
2. The Sitter — $10M
3. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 — $7.9M
4. The Muppets — $7.1M
5. Arthur Christmas — $6.6M
6. Hugo — $6.12M
7. The Descendants — $4.38M
8. Happy Feet Two — $3.75M
9. Jack and Jill — $3.2M
10. Immortals — $2.44M



  • Kasper

    Well, The Sitter had a budget of just 25 million, so it’ll most likely have no problem making it back.

  • csidle

    Glad to see Jack and Jill so low, but it’s incredible how high Twilight remains.

    Just out of curiosity, why do the shows take a while to come on the site? I don’t mean to come off as impatient, I’m quite overjoyed at getting the show at all, and for free at that, but I am teased with the Facebook page telling me when it is being recorded, and at times it takes a while before it is posted. I’m just wondering what process is time-consuming; is there a lot of cutting, does the upload take a while, or is it just mainly finding the time to get it done?

  • The process of editing the show and then posting it on the site and updating everything probably takes about 2-3 hours. Depending on when we finish recording, it can usually be done the same night.

    For this week’s podcast, it has already been edited by Jay and handed off to me, but I won’t be able to post it until I get home from work tonight.

  • Mark In Ottawa

    NYE looks horrible.

    The Sitter looks like it could be fun.