Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, MI4 – Ghost Protocol This New Year's weekend is either a promising or a foreboding gateway to the North American box office in 2012. Looking at various news reports — some rosy, some gloomy — it all depends on what color glasses the writers had on, or what sort of spin they wanted to give to the Dec. 30, 2011-Jan. 1, 2012 box-office revenues. Figures for the top twelve movies totaled an estimated $151 million, or about 1.5% above last year. Sounds promising? Well, a modest gain is better than no gain — and certainly much better than either modest or immodest losses. Compared to the Jan. 1-3, 2010, weekend, however, this weekend's figures are down 28% as a result of James Cameron's Avatar phenomenon. Now, ignoring Avatar as if it had never existed, and adding the revenues of early 2010's three runners-up — Guy Ritchie/Robert Downey Jr's Sherlock Holmes, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel,...
- 1/1/2012
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
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