Weekend Box Office: The Tryptophan Hangover
With studios clamoring to release their most commercially promising films in time for Thanksgiving, the weekend after the holiday was bound to be a letdown, but this year, the slump was even worse than usual. For one, The Warriors Way—a martial arts laugher that wasn’t screened for critics—was given the wide berth generally afforded to your Iron Mans or Batmans, but a clear field only won it a ninth-place finish with $3 million. After narrowing losing to Harry Potter 7.1 on its opening weekend, Disney animated movie Tangled finally switched places at the top, taking $21.5 million to the rapidly falling Potter’s $16.7 million. The results were soured further by news that the previous month was the worst November for attendance in 15 years, so expect those egregious 3-D surcharges to get even more egregious to make up for it.