'2012' kills; 'Precious' amazes at the weekend box office - Entertainment Weekly

which took in an estimated $65 million stateside and an additional $160 million overseas. The John Cusack thriller brought in more than its $200 million budget in its opening weekend, a huge win for Sony Pictures. Add in the spectacular limited release reign of Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire and the weekend was a solid one even if it couldn’t surpass last year at this time when Sony’s Quantum of Solace was top dog on the list.

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In second place was Disney’s A Christmas Carol , which despite opening softly last weekend, held up well in its second weekend in theaters, dropping only 26%. The Robert Zemeckis, CG-animated film grossed $22.3 million, with 14% of its tally coming from IMAX’s 182 runs. It’s total cume now stands at $63 million. Third place belonged to the George Clooney-starrer The Men Who Stare At Goats . Dropping an estimated 51% from last weekend, the film grossed an additional $6.2 million, putting its ten-day cume at $23 million. Precious , which continues to have one of the most astounding limited-release runs in box office history. Adding 156 theaters to its teeny opening weekend run, the Lee Daniels-directed film earned $6 million this weekend, for an incredible per-screen average of $35,000. The movie has earned close to $9 million in only two weeks in release.

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