Many of the theaters are open until 6am Christmas Day. Business is spread out into Tuesday. That might be the reason why Monday numbers are down from Sunday.

Oh, I know why admissions are down. I was just reporting that most films were struggling to increase from Sunday.

Christmas Eve isn't a holiday so most people had to work half-day therefore films didn't see any major increase. And Sunday is a holiday for almost everyone so most films weren't going to beat Sunday admissions that early, especially children's films.

	Monday adm.				December 24
Rank	Title	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2	--	36,349	--	+3.4%
2	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	--	22,040	--	+10.8%
3	Wreck-It Ralph	--	17,816	--	+0.0%
4	CZ12	--	17,210	--	-6.5%
5	Jack Reacher	--	13,505	--	-6.2%
6	Les Misérables	--	13,370	--	+2.9%
7	Life of Pi	--	6,868	--	+12.0%
8	My Sassy Hubby	--	3,670	--	+6.1%
9	Cold War	--	1,003	--	-8.0%
10	Bunny Drop	--	725	--	+17.1%

These admissions were taken at 10:40 pm. Final admissions are higher.

Not impressed with Breaking Dawn 2. Ever since that good Friday increase, the weekend has been steady but nothing outstanding. The Hobbit is still fighting so that is good news for Hobbit fans. It beat Twilight on Saturday, increased its gap on Sunday and increased more than BD2 with admissions on Monday. Wreck-It Ralph was down 1 ticket from Sunday but final numbers would have pushed it over into the blue. Very good hold considering it was a half-day for most parents and kid's films are most affected by this. It had excellent 5 and 7 PM showings, beating Twilight and The Hobbit in admissions during that same period. CZ12 and Jack Reacher both saw big decreases. Strong number for Les Mis. Life of Pi had a fantastic increase. My Sassy Hubby did OK. Cold War lost admissions but it is inching closer to 5.5m. See-saw battle for Bunny Drop continues.

Early predictions for next week

Next week will be influenced by the midweek Christmas holidays. Thursday and Friday should benefit greatly from the days off. Most films will have good-great holds and there could be a couple of increases in the mix. Early pre-sales for Thursday and Friday have Wreck-It Ralph and Les Mis dueling for #1 while Hobbit has an early lead over Breaking Dawn for #3.

December 20 Weekend Actuals

1. Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2 - $1,001,223 (weekend actual)
2. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - $2,820,456
3. Wreck-It Ralph - $624,474 (weekend actual)
4. CZ12 - $354,815 (weekend actual)
5. Jack Reacher - $303,205 (weekend actual)

Others
Life of Pi - $4,928,703
My Sassy Hubby - $1,153,471
Cold War - $5,464,151
Skyfall - $4,838,386

Ok start for Twilight but not exceptional. Really bland weekend for The Hobbit. 6m could be in jeopardy. Very good for Wreck-It Ralph. 2m is up for grabs. CZ12 opened better than Jackie Chan's previous efforts but the weekend number is not that great. Woeful for Jack Reacher. It should have done much better given MI4's breakout success here.

Life of Pi and Cold War will both pass their respective milestones sometime this week.

	Tuesday adm.	(so far)			December 25
Rank	Title	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2	--	21,504	--	+7.4%
2	Les Misérables	--	18,059	--	+91.8%
3	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	--	16,218	--	+15.6%
4	Wreck-It Ralph	--	15,075	--	+65.7%
5	CZ12	--	11,202	--	+65.6%
6	Jack Reacher	--	8,893		+34.2%
7	Life of Pi	--	5,571		+30.5%
8	My Sassy Hubby	--	3,162		+60.8%
9	Cold War	--	812		+61.4%
10	Bunny Drop	--	516		+11.4%

Very poor increase for Twilight. I expected a bigger increase. On the contrary for Les Mis. Great increase on its official opening day. The Hobbit is still trudging behind but it is at least closing the gap on Twilight in admissions. Wreck-It Ralph had another excellent gain. Not bad for CZ12. Not a good increase for Jack Reacher. Life of Pi had a decent rise. Good for both My Sassy Hubby and Cold War. Bad for Bunny Drop.

	Tuesday adm.				December 25
Rank	Title	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2	--	39,502	--	+8.7%
2	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	--	25,534	--	+15.9%
3	Wreck-It Ralph	--	24,865	--	+39.6%
4	CZ12	--	23,797	--	+38.3%
5	Les Misérables	--	23,050	--	+72.4%
6	Jack Reacher	--	17,783	--	+31.7%
7	Life of Pi	--	7,610	--	+10.8%
8	My Sassy Hubby	--	5,455	--	+48.6%
9	Cold War	--	1,026	--	+2.3%
10	Bunny Drop	--	808	--	+11.4%

Terrifyingly bad for Breaking Dawn 2. It is the only one out of the latest 3 Twilight films to never to hit 40,000 admissions on any day. With the Christmas holidays ending, it won't reach 40,000 admissions now that the demand has come and gone. Ok for The Hobbit but 6m is gone now. 5m will probably still happen but Cold War may end up in the top 5 after all. Another great day for Wreck-It Ralph. It nearly beat Twilight in gross. That is a pretty good increase for CZ12. Incredible for Les Misérables. Jack Reacher had a better showing today. Decent for Life of Pi. My Sassy Hubby posted a very strong surge. Bunny Drop continues its Jekyll & Hyde performance.

	3-day holiday projections
Rank	Title	3 day pre.	Total (Dec. 26)
1	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	$785,000	$3,605,000
2	Wreck-It Ralph	$675,000	$1,300,000
3	Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2	$670,000	$1,670,000
4	Les Misérables	$465,000	$665,000
5	CZ12	$370,000	$725,000
6	Jack Reacher	$320,000	$620,000
7	Life of Pi	$190,000	$5,120,000
8	My Sassy Hubby	$82,000	$1,235,000
9	Cold War	$18,200	$5,482,350
10	Bunny Drop	$13,000	$25,000

6m looks to be gone for The Hobbit. 5m is still there for the taking. I'm going for the upset win for Wreck-It Ralph. Although Twilight was ahead by about $55,000 on Monday, Wreck-It Ralph quickly closed the gap on Christmas Day. The day after Christmas should yield very strong results for Wreck-It Ralph while Twilight will suffer more due to less demand and 10 PM shows fizzling out. Both Wreck-It Ralph and Twilight will make 2m. Huge for Les Mis. 2m is going to happen with an outside shot at 3m. CZ12 did OK but 1m is still kind of iffy considering its lackluster word of mouth. Jack Reacher is doing slightly less than CZ12 but word of mouth will kick in for Jack Reacher and it should start to gain momentum over CZ12 on Wednesday. Life of Pi is still winning people over. 5.5m isn't out of the question as it has had great holds so far throughout its run. Cold War is suffering a lack of showtimes. Pre-sales remain quite good but walk-ins remain bare due to people not wanting to sit at the front of the theater. Cold War is very close to 5.5m and with theaters saving it next week, it'll limp past the mark. Bunny Drop has done OK considering its only in 2 theaters. It might be able to walk pass $50,000.

Thursday schedules

Pacific Place
New	Holdovers	Leaving
Les Misérables - 5 showings	Wreck-It Ralph (3D Eng.) - 8 showings (▼ 9)	Skyfall
	CZ12 - 1 showing (-)
	Jack Reacher - 5 showings (-)
	Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2 - 7 showings (▼ 9)
	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 3D - 4 showings (-)
	Life of Pi 3D - 2 showings (-)
	Cold War - 2 showings (▼ 3)

Olympian City
New	Holdovers	Leaving
The Guillotines 3D - 1 showing	Wreck-It Ralph (Can.) - 2 showings (▼ 3)
The Guillotines - 2 showings	Wreck-It Ralph (3D Can.) - 6 showings (-)
Les Misérables - 5 showings	CZ12 - 3 showings (▼ 4)
	Jack Reacher - 5 showings (-)
	Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2 - 7 showings (-)
	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 3D - 5 showings (-)
	Life of Pi - 3 showings (-)

Tsuen Wan
New	Holdovers	Leaving
The Guillotines 3D - 2 showings	Wreck-It Ralph (3D Can.) - 5 showings (▼ 6)
Naruto: Road to Ninja - 2 showings	CZ12 - 3 showings (▼ 4)
Les Misérables - 4 showings	Jack Reacher - 2 showings (▼ 3)
	Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2 - 5 showings (▼ 7)
	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 3D - 3 showings (-)
	Life of Pi - 1 showing (-)

Les Mis is off to a strong start. If the runtime was shorter, theaters would have given it 7 showtimes. The Guillotines looks awful and theaters adjusted their schedules accordingly. Naruto: Road to Ninja is a minor player this week. It will not affect Wreck-It Ralph much. Speaking of Wreck-It Ralph, it is the biggest holdover this week. It retained the majority of its showings at almost all locations. CZ12 will get hit the most by the newcomers. It will fall behind Jack Reacher this week. Jack Reacher was slow out of the gate but word of mouth is exceptional. Business will remain steady. Breaking Dawn 2 has looked erratic on Thursday and Friday. Some places are reporting very high pre-sales while it lags behind Wreck-It Ralph, Les Mis and The Hobbit at others. The Hobbit is maintaining last weekend's pace for now. It has passed Breaking Dawn 2 at quite a handful of places in admissions. Life of Pi is holding on very well. Pre-sales are good.

	Wednesday adm.	(so far)			December 26
Rank	Title	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Les Misérables	--	15,476	--	-14.3%
2	Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2	--	13,886	--	-35.4%
3	Wreck-It Ralph	--	13,213	--	-12.4%
4	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	--	12,845	--	-20.8%
5	CZ12	--	8,600	--	-23.2%
6	Jack Reacher	--	7,859	--	-11.6%
7	Life of Pi	--	5,058	--	-9.2%
8	My Sassy Hubby	--	2,282	--	-27.8%
9	Cold War	--	649	--	-20.1%
10	Bunny Drop	--	511	--	-1.0%

Awesome for Les Mis. Very bad for Breaking Dawn 2. It will still win the day in admissions but in gross, it will finish 4th behind Les Mis, Wreck-It Ralph and The Hobbit. Wreck-It Ralph had another good daily hold. The Hobbit seems to be picking up the pace. Business has been getting better through the week. Nice daily hold as well. Not good for CZ12. Jack Reacher had a great hold. Exceptional hold for Life of Pi. Huge drop for My Sassy Hubby. Another big drop for Cold War. Bunny Drop did well.

You know what would be awesome? If Wreck-It Ralph was the #1 film on Thursday. Because it could totally happen.

It'd be more awesome if Jack Reacher was #1 on Thursday.

For that to happen, it would need to duplicate its Boxing Day admissions. A hard task to do when no film has done it so far.

There's good news though; I'll be watching this on Friday so I'll contribute to its HK gross.

	Wednesday adm.				December 26
Rank	Title	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2	--	28,499	--	-27.9%
2	Wreck-It Ralph	--	23,568	--	-5.2%
3	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	--	21,920	--	-14.2%
4	Les Misérables	--	21,305	--	-7.6%
5	CZ12	--	18,893	--	-20.6%
6	Jack Reacher	--	16,252	--	-8.6%
7	Life of Pi	--	7,407	--	-2.7%
8	My Sassy Hubby	--	4,750	--	-12.9%
9	Cold War	--	906	--	-11.7%
10	Bunny Drop	--	786	--	-2.7%

Huge fall for Breaking Dawn 2. Really bad hold. Excellent hold for Wreck-It Ralph. Although it was least affected by the situation, its 8 PM showtimes were about 75-80% full. It also had a hefty lead over BD2 today. The Hobbit had a good drop. Business is slowly picking back up. Wonderful for Les Mis although I thought it would have had about 22,000 admissions today. CZ12 had a big drop because it had a lot of 10:30 showtimes. Jack Reacher had a great hold. Fantastic for Life of Pi. This might be able to pass Cold War. Pretty awful for My Sassy Hubby after its Christmas push. Not a great hold for Cold War. Bunny Drop did good.

	3 day holiday adm.	Dec 24-26
Rank	Title	3 day adm.
1	Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2	104,350
2	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	69,494
3	Wreck-It Ralph	66,249
4	CZ12	59,900
5	Les Misérables	57,725
6	Jack Reacher	47,540
7	Life of Pi	21,885
8	My Sassy Hubby	13,875
9	Cold War	2,935
10	Bunny Drop	2,319

Take in those admissions...and get ready for the holiday estimates.

	3 day holiday est.
Rank	Title	3 day est.	Total (Dec. 26)
1	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	$820,000	$3,640,000
2	Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2	$700,000	$1,700,000
3	Wreck-It Ralph	$695,000	$1,325,000
4	Les Misérables	$465,000	$665,000
5	CZ12	$380,000	$735,000
6	Jack Reacher	$320,000	$620,000
7	Life of Pi	$190,000	$5,120,000
8	My Sassy Hubby	$82,000	$1,235,000
9	Cold War	$17,700	$5,477,350
10	Bunny Drop	$12,000	$23,000

Just when you thought The Hobbit was all but done, it comes back with the biggest gross. Walk-ins were fairly steady with 8,000 recorded on Monday and 9,000 on Tuesday/Wednesday. It had a very good Wednesday, dropping 14% from Christmas. For an almost 3 hour long movie, that is a good hold. It widened its lead on Twilight as each day passed with only a slim $10,000 lead on Monday before turning that into a $60,000 win on Wednesday. 5m should happen with 5.5m most likely its final gross. 6m is a pipe dream but if it has any more holds like Wednesday's, it's not out of the question.

Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2 posted the most amount of admissions in the 3 day holiday period, beating The Hobbit by almost 35,000 admissions but its low ratio and Hobbit's extraordinarily high one meant it would be the runner-up. If we compare its ratio to Eclipse's or BD1's, however, BD2's is extremely high meaning that it would take less admissions to gross the same amount as Eclipse or BD1 did back when they were released. Walk-ins for the three days were fairly high with 16,000 bought on Monday, up to 18,000 on Tuesday before sliding down to 14,600 on Wednesday. Its Wednesday hold was terrible but it will have made 1.7m after the Christmas holidays. It only needs about $600,000 to pass the first Twilight and become the highest grossing film in the franchise. It will pass 2m by next weekend and then $300,000 should come from New Year's and the remaining weeks.

Wreck-It Ralph did extremely well over the course of the 3 day period. It was 3rd on Monday and very nearly overtook Breaking Dawn 2 on Christmas before leaping over it on Wednesday to land in 2nd in admissions and gross (and was within a few thousand of The Hobbit for 1st). The amazing WOM has pushed more people to watch it and that has meant theaters had to scale back Twilight/The Hobbit and give bigger screens to Wreck-It Ralph. With almost no 10 PM showtimes, the 8 PM showtimes have done very well. A lot of kids films have trouble with night shows because it doesn't appeal to couples or any other demographic besides the family crowd but 8 PM shows have even done better than afternoon sessions on weekdays in a few places. It has already quadrupled Rise of the Guardians' total in 1 week. It will definitely punch through 2m and could even come close to 3m.

Les Misérables flew right out of the gate and sung its way into many hearts. It currently holds a 94% audience rating and is poised to be the breakout hit of the season. Over the 3 day holiday period, Les Mis was still in 'previews' mode on Monday so it couldn't do much better than 6th. But on Christmas and the day after, it relished its first chance of full showings and took advantage. It catapulted 73% on Christmas, its opening day, and fell only 8% the day after, which signifies very strong WOM. Including last weekend's sneaks, it has already made about $665,000...and it hasn't even had an official weekend yet. 2m is locked and 3m could very well happen.

CZ12 kept pace ahead of Jack Reacher for the 5th spot by beating it by almost 12,500 admissions for the 3 day period. It had a small lead on Monday before opening it up to 6,000 on Tuesday before barely escaping Wednesday with a tiny 2,600 win. Reviews are putrid with only a 31% approval rating from audiences but one wonders if those who gave it a fail actually watched the film and didn't like it or give it a bad grade because they don't like Jackie Chan. Its box office so far suggest the latter as it has built a bigger lead on Jack Reacher over several days. 1m is happening for CZ12. CZ12 will end up with a bigger total than Jackie Chan's 4 previous films combined.

Jack Reacher opened very poorly on its opening weekend and the holidays didn't help much either. It ticked up 2% from last weekend and its run over the Christmas holidays was mixed. On Monday, it was one of 4 movies to drop from Sunday. Christmas saw a very average increase of just 31% but where it shined was on Wednesday, which saw it ease 9%. WOM remains extremely positive, with over a 96% approval rating from audiences. If the WOM can materialize quickly and translate into sales, this could stay until it passes 1.5m and beats Knight and Day's gross. However, there has been no indication yet that WOM is getting people to watch this so it won't do much more than 1.2m at this point.

Life of Pi continued its earth shattering run and swooped in another 21,000 admissions over the Christmas holidays. It passed 5m during this period and it played to nearly full showings at almost every location. Final admissions were steady in the high 6,000's-mid 7,000's. It had the best drop in the top 10 on Wednesday, down only 3% from Christmas. With another $190,000 in the kitty, Life of Pi is targeting another film down the list: Cold War. Beating Lust, Caution or 6m doesn't look like it will happen so it will have to settle for a possible finish in the top 5.

My Sassy Hubby did extremely bad last weekend and it didn't do much better during the holidays. It had only a miniscule increase from last weekend and never reached any of Life of Pi's pre-sale numbers with its final one over the course of the 3 day holiday. It was a far cry from its great hold its 2nd weekend. What a difference a weekend makes. It will end up with about 1.275m, a good total for a long overdue sequel.

Cold War charged on with only one thing on its mind: to pass 5.5m. After the 3-day period, 5.5m looks bleaker than before. It fell in admissions from last weekend and had the worst holds in the top 10 on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. 5.5m is still going to happen although it will be a little harder now considering how weak it did over the holidays. With New Year's upcoming, it has one more chance before the onslaught of Chinese movies kills it off.

Bunny Drop's performance has been Jekyll and Hyde. One day, it holds great, the next, it does poorly. Its performance over the holidays didn't impress. If anything, its holds look as if its not helped by the holidays which is quite bizarre. Last weekend, Saturday was its best day but it took Sunday off as it fell down a rabbit hole and lost 11% of its Saturday business. It could make its way to about $45,000-$50,000.

From Universal

So Les Mis is standing at 342k for 2 days. Adding in the Wednesday holiday, it could have taken in $542,000 from the 3 day holiday. When you include the previews, it would be $736,000.

If that is the case, other movies might have seen a huge bump as well.

Hope you enjoy it.

	Thursday adm.	(so far)		December 27
Rank	Title	LW	TW	% chg
1	Les Misérables	--	7,154	--
2	Wreck-It Ralph	2,061	4,702	+128.1%
3	Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2	14,846	4,268	-71.3%
4	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	4,502	4,165	-7.5%
5	CZ12	2,214	2,506	+13.2%
6	Life of Pi	1,057	2,390	+126.1%
7	Jack Reacher	1,872	1,512	-19.2%
8	The Guillotines	--	1,486	--
9	Naruto: Road to Ninja	--	768	--
10	My Sassy Hubby	640	322	-49.7%

Great numbers for both Les Mis and Wreck-It Ralph. Terrible hold for Breaking Dawn 2 but it'll get to 12,500 admissions today. OK hold for Hobbit. Not bad for CZ12. Wow for Life of Pi. Really bad for Jack Reacher. Bad for Guillotines. Pretty normal start for Naruto. Awful for My Sassy Hubby.

	Thursday			December 27
Rank	Title	LW	TW	% chg
1	Les Misérables	--	18,558	--
2	Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2	32,222	13,982	-56.6%
3	Wreck-It Ralph	6,050	11,904	+96.8%
4	CZ12	10,043	9,760	-2.8%
5	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	10,728	8,715	-18.8%
6	Jack Reacher	8,167	6,976	-14.6%
7	Life of Pi	3,521	5,143	+46.1%
8	The Guillotines	--	4,530	--
9	My Sassy Hubby	3,280	1,952	-40.5%
10	Naruto: Road to Ninja	--	1,076	--

Huge for Les Mis. It is going to pass 1m on Friday and 1.5m this weekend. Its first official weekend will get very close to doubling Mamma Mia's OW. At this rate, 3m for Les Mis is looking like a lock. Breaking Dawn 2 had a good hold. Its drop was heavily influenced by the Christmas holidays but BD1 fell 66% on the Thursday after the holidays. BD1 also had drops in the 60-70% range the rest of the weekend which BD2 should easily eclipse after last weekend's steady admissions. 2.5m seems likely now. Phenomenal for Wreck-It Ralph. With that insane increase, it is looking at a weekend power-up. It should bank about 1.9m after this weekend. 3m isn't out of the question but many films see huge drops after New Year's. OK for CZ12. It will hack past 1m. The Hobbit did average. 4m will be achieved this weekend and 5m should still happen but 6m seems to be dead. Even superb reviews can't save Jack Reacher. It will sneak past 1m but that looks to be it. Pretty much the opposite of MI4. Life of Pi impressed once again. 5.5m looks like it's happening. Guillotines got run over by holdovers and Les Mis. Awful for My Sassy Hubby again. Naruto: Road to Ninja looks to be in the same vein as Blood Prison.

		Thursday Actuals						December 27
LW	TW	Title	Last Thu. (USD)	Thursday (USD)	% chg	Screens	Days	Total
--	1	Les Misérables	--	$145,632	--	34	3	$841,229
3	2	Wreck-It Ralph	$64,242	$116,530	+81.4%	53	8	$1,397,000
1	3	Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2	$218,062	$94,678	-56.6%	41	8	$1,828,444
2	4	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	$124,847	$85,236	-31.7%	47	15	$3,766,804
4	5	CZ12	$63,796	$59,780	-6.3%	37	8	$798,675
5	6	Jack Reacher	$55,642	$44,465	-20.1%	32	8	$657,918
6	7	Life of Pi	$31,858	$43,265	+35.8%	24	36	$5,154,609
--	8	The Guillotines	--	$39,318	--	43	1	$61,921
7	9	My Sassy Hubby	$20,320	$12,664	-37.7%	11	22	$1,256,164
--	10	Naruto: Road to Ninja	--	$8,546	--	6	1	$8,546

Cold War	$5,486,639
Skyfall	$4,844,947
Due West 3D	$2,479,404

	Friday adm.	(so far)			December 28
Rank	Title	LW	TW	% chg	QD % chg
1	Les Misérables	--	10,022	--	+40.1%
2	Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2	14,579	4,960	-66.0%	+16.2%
3	Wreck-It Ralph	3,213	4,486	+39.6%	-4.6%
4	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	6,431	4,412	-31.4%	+5.9%
5	CZ12	3,145	2,593	-17.6%	+3.5%
6	Life of Pi	1,900	2,357	+24.1%	-1.4%
7	Jack Reacher	2,796	2,009	-28.1%	+32.9%
8	The Guillotines	--	1,482	--	-0.3%
9	Naruto: Road to Ninja	--	594	--	-22.7%
10	My Sassy Hubby	787	347	-55.9%	+7.8%

	Friday				December 28
Rank	Title	LW	TW	% chg	QD % chg
1	Les Misérables	--	21,852	--	+17.7%
2	Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2	35,117	14,033	-60.0%	+0.4%
3	Wreck-It Ralph	8,811	11,424	+29.7%	-4.0%
4	CZ12	11,740	9,290	-20.9%	-4.8%
5	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	14,140	9,074	-35.8%	+4.1%
6	Jack Reacher	11,045	7,520	-31.9%	+7.8%
7	Life of Pi	5,138	4,837	-5.9%	-5.9%
8	The Guillotines	--	4,318	--	-4.7%
9	My Sassy Hubby	3,520	1,800	-48.9%	-7.8%
10	Naruto: Road to Ninja	--	1,410	--	+31.0%

Great for Les Mis. Not so great for everything else besides Naruto.

	Saturday adm.	(so far)			December 29
Rank	Title	LW	TW	% chg	QD % chg
1	Les Misérables	6,815	14,940	+119.2%	+49.1%
2	Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2	17,618	5,964	-66.1%	+20.2%
3	Wreck-It Ralph	5,795	5,796	+0.0%	+29.2%
4	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	10,326	5,716	-44.6%	+29.6%
5	CZ12	4,315	3,670	-14.9%	+41.5%
6	Jack Reacher	4,045	2,645	-34.6%	+31.7%
7	Life of Pi	2,842	2,464	-13.3%	+4.5%
8	The Guillotines	--	1,972	--	+33.1%
9	Naruto: Road to Ninja	--	482	--	-18.9%
10	In The House	--	361	--	--

Superb for Les Mis. Could be storming to 30,000 admissions today. Although it had a better hold on Thursday than BD1, BD2 is seeing bigger drops on the weekend. It will garner about 14-14.5k admissions today. Wreck-It Ralph is holding extremely well like last year's children's films. It will slow down on Saturday/Sunday due to the holiday influence on Thursday/Friday. It will still increase this weekend. Not great for The Hobbit but it will hold better tomorrow. I'm still surprised at how well CZ12 is doing despite the terrible reviews and negative stigma surrounding Jackie Chan. Jack Reacher might be doing great with audiences who see it but it is not translating to getting people in the theater to watch it. A huge disappointment after last year's surprise run with MI4. Life of Pi maintains pace with last weekend. Guillotines bombed despite playing on 43 screens. Naruto fell from yesterday but it was expected after holidays built a really strong opening Thursday/Friday. It should drop today. In The House sneaks into the top 10 while only showing in 3 theaters.

Some reviewers say CZ12 marks the return of Jackie Chan to the his late 90's/early 00's style: slick action, light in dialogue, underlying comical tone, multi-national filming locations. These might help get his nostalgic fans back to see him in what could be his last performance as a stunt actor. It's also the only Chinese-language movie in wide release during Christmas time. So an okay box office might not be so surprising. But CZ12's $1.4 mil projected gross is still a far cry from Jackie Chan's track record pre-2009, when each of his Asian starrers made at least $2.4 mil.

It's too silly to be compared to his greatest hits. It's an insult to those movies that some reviewers are making that comparison.

Algren, have you seen the movie?

I liked Jackie Chan in the mid to late 90's. His action sequences were slick and clean with a comical touch. His movies felt like adventure movies: fresh, fast-paced, feel-good, happy endings. A good way to pass the time.

Of course I have seen it. It's not great, just so-so. I reviewed it on the main site if you want to take a looksie.

Chan's best era was in the 80s with Police Story II, Project A Part II, Dragons Forever, Wheels on Meals etc. Then he calmed for a bit until Rumble in the Bronx and a slew of others. They were, as you say, fast-paced, fresh, inventive, and nicely comical; great movies. CZ12 is nothing like that. It's sloppy, unfunny, lazy and desperate. I think CZ12 has actually aimed too high without the means to compete at that level. It fails. It hurts me to say this too, because I love Jackie, always have, but it really wasn't a good movie.

	Saturday				December 29
Rank	Title	LW	TW	% chg	QD % chg
1	Les Misérables	12,301	31,048	+152.4%	+42.1%
2	Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2	38,914	15,042	-61.3%	+7.2%
3	Wreck-It Ralph	13,737	14,880	+8.3%	+30.3%
4	CZ12	15,762	12,037	-23.6%	+29.6%
5	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	19,775	11,367	-42.5%	+25.3%
6	Jack Reacher	13,136	9,479	-27.8%	+26.1%
7	The Guillotines	--	6,270	--	+45.2%
8	Life of Pi	5,729	5,854	+2.2%	+21.0%
9	My Sassy Hubby	3,346	2,075	-38.0%	+15.3%
10	Naruto: Road to Ninja	--	1,322	--	-6.2%

	Sunday adm.	(so far)			December 30
Rank	Title	LW	TW	% chg	QD % chg
1	Les Misérables	7,046	15,116	+114.5%	+1.2%
2	Wreck-It Ralph	8,832	6,994	-20.8%	+20.7%
3	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	11,304	5,830	-48.4%	+2.0%
4	Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2	16,316	5,174	-68.3%	-13.2%
5	CZ12	6,294	4,561	-27.5%	+24.3%
6	Jack Reacher	5,261	2,917	-44.6%	+10.3%
7	Life of Pi	3,660	2,841	-22.4%	+15.3%
8	The Guillotines	--	2,317	--	+17.5%
9	Naruto: Road to Ninja	--	608	--	+26.1%
10	The Last Tycoon	--	454	--	--

	Weekend Projections			December 27
Rank	Title	TW	% chg	Total
1	Les Misérables	$805,000	+415.0%	$1,500,000
2	Wreck-It Ralph	$530,000	+12.8%	$1,810,000
3	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	$400,000	-48.1%	$4,080,000
4	Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2	$390,000	-58.7%	$2,125,000
5	CZ12	$265,000	-25.3%	$1,005,000

Excellent for Les Mis. Strong for Wreck-It Ralph. Hobbit hasn't been doing well without holidays. Only so-so. Twilight is fading fast. But 2.5m is still happening. CZ12 passes 1m.

How about Jack Reacher..that must be near $1m by now..

I'm disappointed in the people of Hong Kong. How they can make CZ12 a $1m hit and not be interested in Jack Reacher is beyond me.

How far can Ralph go?

About $820,000 after this weekend. It will still gross 1m but not much more.

2.5m is a safe bet with the New Year's holiday. I'd say 3m for Ralph is a realistic goal. It doesn't have any kids films to contend with but new films will obviously take screens away from it. And post holidays, kids films have terrible drops. It could drop 60-70% next weekend.

Just noticed this. Wreck-It Ralph will be the first animated film released over Christmas to make 2.5m. No other animated movie has achieved this milestone. The closest was Madagascar 2 back in 2008 with 2.408m.

It speaks volumes of Wreck-It Ralph's performance this year and how weak animation has done during the Christmas period. Wreck-It Ralph had to have excellent reviews, 3D premiums AND play to more than just the couples/family crowd, which it is doing, to make 2.5m. Oh, and it helps if rival films like ROTG bomb one month earlier too. I'm surprised that no other animation movie has done this since distributors and studios almost always slot their animated movies for a holiday release date (usually around the big 3 holidays: Chinese New Year, Christmas and Easter).

Wreck-It Ralph truly had a breakout performance this holiday season along with Les Mis.

	Sunday				December 30
Rank	Title	LW	TW	% chg	QD % chg
1	Les Misérables	12,995	29,593	--	-4.7%
2	Wreck-It Ralph	17,817	16,671	-6.4%	+12.0%
3	Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2	35,164	13,650	-61.2%	-9.3%
4	CZ12	18,404	13,222	-28.2%	+9.8%
5	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	19,895	10,763	-45.9%	-5.3%
6	Jack Reacher	14,401	9,518	-33.9%	+0.4%
7	The Guillotines	--	6,161	--	-1.7%
8	Life of Pi	6,130	6,041	-1.5%	+3.2%
9	My Sassy Hubby	3,458	1,963	-43.2%	-5.4%
10	Naruto: Road to Ninja	--	1,453	--	+9.9%

	Weekend adm.			Dec 27-30
Rank	Title	LW	TW	% chg
1	Les Misérables	25,296	101,051	+299.5%
2	Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2	141,417	56,545	-60.0%
3	Wreck-It Ralph	46,415	54,879	+18.2%
4	CZ12	55,949	44,309	-20.8%
5	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	64,538	39,919	-38.1%
6	Jack Reacher	46,749	33,493	-28.4%
7	Life of Pi	20,518	21,875	+6.6%
8	The Guillotines	--	21,279	--
9	My Sassy Hubby	13,604	7,790	-42.7%
10	Naruto: Road to Ninja	--	5,261	--

	Weekend Estimates			December 27
Rank	Title	TW	% chg	Total
1	Les Misérables	$790,000	+407.2%	$1,485,000
2	Wreck-It Ralph	$530,000	+12.8%	$1,810,000
3	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	$400,000	-48.1%	$4,080,000
4	Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2	$380,000	-59.8%	$2,115,000
5	CZ12	$270,000	-23.9%	$1,010,000

	Monday adm.	(so far)			December 31
Rank	Title	LW	TW	WKD % chg	QD % chg
1	Les Misérables	9,415	16,615	+76.5%	+9.9%
2	Wreck-It Ralph	9,096	5,785	-36.4%	-17.3%
3	Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2	20,014	5,309	-73.5%	+2.6%
4	The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey	14,029	5,132	-63.4%	-12.0%
5	CZ12	6,763	4,279	-36.7%	-6.2%
6	Jack Reacher	6,629	3,436	-48.2%	+17.8%
7	Life of Pi	4,270	2,712	-36.5%	-4.5%
8	The Guillotines	--	1,857	--	-19.9%
9	My Sassy Hubby	1,966	564	-71.3%	--
10	In The House	--	347	--	--

Incredibly strong for Les Mis. That daily drop for Wreck-It Ralph is deceiving. The week-to-week hold is what we should look at here. Since New Year's Eve is not a holiday, business is not as strong in the morning or afternoon like it was on Sunday. Also, Ralph has the least amount of showtimes at night on NYE so it doesn't have big pre-sales like the other movies. Very impressive for it to still rank 2nd and drop only 36% from last Monday. Breaking Dawn 2 is melting away. Not great for The Hobbit. I expect The Hobbit to get very close to BD2 in admissions today. The gap between them in admissions is shrinking fast. That is good for CZ12. Huge daily gain for Jack Reacher but week-to-week is not great. Life of Pi seems to be slowing down now. Poor for the Guillotines. Ouch for My Sassy Hubby. Good for In The House.