Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

Identity Thief Steals Big Box Office Win

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9:10 am, February 9th, 2013

BOX OFFICE

(Universal)

Identity Thief is set to win the weekend box office, with the Jason Bateman–Melissa McCarthy comedy on pace for an estimated $34 million windfall, even as a blizzard batters the East Coast.

Zombie romance Warm Bodies ($9 million) should finish in second place, just ahead of the new thriller Side Effects, starring Rooney Mara, Jude Law and Channing Tatum ($8 million).

Oscar contender Silver Linings Playbook is expected to be in the #4 slot with about $6 million.

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is set to place fifth at $4.8 million, beating Jessica Chastain’s one-two punch of Mama ($4 million) and Zero Dark Thirty ($3.5 million).

Django Unchained and Argo will likely battle for #8 — both movies are on track for approximately $2 million.

The Sylvester Stallone action flick Bullet To The Head should round out the chart with a $1.5 million haul.

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Warm Bodies Wins Super Bowl Weekend Box Office

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1:22 pm, February 3rd, 2013

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(Summit)

Warm Bodies, the zombie romantic comedy starring Nicholas Hoult and Teresa Palmer, topped the box office on Super Bowl Weekend with $20 million in ticket sales.

Last week’s winner Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters came in second with $9.2 million.

Nabbing third with $8.1 million was Silver Linings Playbook.

Fourth and fifth places went to the horror flick Mama and Zero Dark Thirty with $6.7 million and $5.3 million, respectively.

Rounding out the Top 10 were Sylvester Stallone’s Bullet to the Head ($4.5 million), the Jason Statham–Jennifer Lopez movie Parker ($3.2 million), Django Unchained ($3 million), Les Miserables ($2.4 million), and Lincoln ($2.41 million).

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Hansel & Gretel Tops Weekend Box Office

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9:29 am, January 27th, 2013

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(MGM)

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is on pace to top a slow weekend at the box office, with the updated Brothers Grimm fairy tale-turned-action movie debuting to approximately $18 million.

Horror flick Mama should take second place with $13 million or so.

Silver Linings Playbook and Zero Dark Thirty are in a tight race for the #3 spot, with both movies tracking toward about $9 million.

The new Jason Statham–Jennifer Lopez movie Parker will be fifth, opening to $7 million.

It looks like Django Unchained ($4.8 million) should hit #6, ahead of a pack of movies all projected to finish around $4 million — new comedy release Movie 43, and dramatic holdovers Les Miserables, Gangster Squad and Broken City.

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