Weekend Receipts: Tron: Legacy Logs In At Number One While Reese Witherspoon Takes One On The Chin

Tron: Legacy managed to avoid being de-rezzed its first weekend out, coming in safely at number one, while Yogi Bear came in at respectable number two. But pity poor Reese Witherspoon whose latest foray into Rom-Comdom bombed at number eight. Your weekend receipts are here.

1. Tron:Legacy
Gross: $43,600,000 (new)
Screens: 3,451 (PSA: $12,634)
Weeks: 1

At the risk of losing my dorky bona fides, I never much cared for the first one and was sorta perplexed by its legions of loyal fans who had been waiting for this sequel for such a long time. Let me know when there’s a Krull sequel, though.

2. Yogi Bear
Gross: $16,705,000 (new)
Screens: 3,515 (PSA: $4,752)
Weeks: 1

I look forward to seeing stacks and stacks of the DVD of this movie in the remainder bin at Target come Christmas 2011.

3. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Gross: $12,400,000 ($42,764,000)
Screens:3,555 (PSA: $3,488)
Weeks: 2 (change: -48.3%)

Hey, remember when that studio chief said that if Dawn Treader doesn’t do well, the Narnia series is dead? Well, the Narnia series is probably dead now. Resurrect that, Jesus Lion!

4. The Fighter
Gross: $12,200,000 ($12,634,000)
Screens: 2,503 (PSA: $4,874)
Weeks: 2 (change: +3,966.5%)

It’s a good enough movie and Christian Bale is fantastic in it, but I’ll be honest: for the first 30 minutes or so, it felt like that Mark Wahlburg sketch from SNL. “Hey Amy Adams, what are you doing here? You’re not a boxer. You’re a lady! Say hello to your mother for me.”

5. The Tourist
Gross: $8,700,000 ($30,791,000)
Screens: 2,756 (PSA: $3,157)
Weeks: 2 (change: -47.2%)

Ladies and gentlemen, one of the best movies of the year! According to a bunch of doddering old bauble-crazed junket whores, I mean.

8. How Do You Know
Gross: $7,600,000 (new)
Screens: 2,483 (PSA: $3,061)
Weeks: 1

Speaking of which, how bad must this movie be if they couldn’t convince the buzzards from the Golden Globes to toss a nomination their way? Eighth-place bad, I imagine

[Numbers via Box Office Mojo]

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