LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rentrak Corporation , today announced the weekend theatrical box office numbers for the weekend period of January 1 through January 3, 2010 according to the company's Box Office Essentials(TM) theatrical box office data collection and analytical service.
The twelve estimated top producing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, January 3, 2010 include:
Rank Title Distributor Weekend Gross Cume Locations ---- ----- ----------- ------------- ---- --------- 1 Avatar 20th Century Fox 68,300,000 352,111,074 3461 -- ------ ---------------- ---------- ----------- ---- 2 Sherlock Holmes Warner Bros. 38,385,000 140,675,000 3626 -- --------------- ----------- ---------- ----------- ---- 3 Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel 20th Century Fox 36,600,000 157,345,259 3747 -- -------------- --------------- ---------- ----------- ---- 4 It's Complicated Universal 18,700,135 59,104,880 2897 -- --------------- --------- ---------- ---------- ---- 5 The Blind Side Warner Bros. 12,650,000 209,052,000 2926 -- -------------- ------------ ---------- ----------- ---- 6 Up In The Air Paramount 11,350,000 45,020,000 1895 -- ------------- --------- ---------- ---------- ---- 7 The Princess and the Frog Disney 10,013,000 86,085,000 3328 -- --------------- ------ ---------- ---------- ---- 8 Did You Hear About The Morgans? Sony 5,200,000 25,620,000 2718 -- --------------- ---- --------- ---------- ---- The Weinstein 9 Nine Company 4,250,000 14,047,000 1412 -- --------------- ------------ --------- ---------- ---- 10 Invictus Warner Bros. 4,130,000 30,755,000 2170 -- -------- ------------ --------- ---------- ---- 11 The Twilight Summit Saga: New Moon Entertainment 3,605,000 287,752,522 1627 -- ---------------- ------------- --------- ----------- ---- 12 Brothers Lionsgate 1,290,000 27,510,000 858 -- -------- --------- --------- ---------- --- Weekend of 1/01/10 to 1/03/10
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