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Fourth goes to The King's Speech, which unlike True Grit, has a boatload of Golden Globe nominations. The King's Speech doubled its screen count, expanding to 1,543 venues, and moved way up from a ninth place finish last weekend. The film earned $9.1 million, giving it a venue average of $5,878, and an 41% increase over last weekend. From an award perspective, The King's Speech is peaking at exactly the right time, with the Globes tonight, and Oscar nominations coming next weekend. So far, the $15 million flick from the Weinsteins has earned a very strong $44.6 million, and there's a lot more of that to come.

Black Swan finishes fifth, as it has another strong weekend. The Natalie Portman starrer earned $8.1 million in its fifth weekend of wide release, and held exactly steady. Black Swan is up for four Golden Globes, and a couple of wins should keep its momentum moving. The $13 million Fox Searchlight is also a big success, as it has earned $73 million so far.

Finishing sixth is Little Fockers, as the sequel is running out of steam as it loses pace with True Grit. The Ben Stiller/Robert DeNiro comedy earned $7.1 million and was off a large 47%. The comedy with the $100 million price tag has now brought in $134.2 million domestically, and over $100 million overseas. It won't be a financial disaster for Universal, but like The Dilemma, expectations have certainly not been met.

Seventh goes to Tron: Legacy, Disney's Christmas gift that had spoiled. Tron: Legacy earned $5.7 million in its fifth weekend, and was off an expected 44%. The $170 million Disney flick (I assume none of that was spent on the script) has now earned $156.9 million stateside, and over $140 million from overseas. While Disney won't wear it on this one, what could have been a strong franchise is now likely dead.

Yogi Bear, Warner Bros' shot at Alvin and the Chipmunks kind of success, winds up in eighth place. Luckily for us, that success wasn't to be, but Yogi has still made out okay. In its fifth weekend, the talking bear movie earned $5.3 million, off only 20% compared to last weekend. The $80 million 3D flick has now earned $82.1 million, and is just getting started overseas.

Ninth goes to The Fighter, Paramount's $25 million boxing drama. In wide release for five weekends now, The Fighter is still slugging it out, earning $5.1 million this weekend. It was off 27% compared to last weekend, but with six Golden Globe nominations could conceivably bounce back next weekend. So far, the Paramount release from director David O. Russell (Three Kings) has earned $65.8 million.

The Nic Cage flop Season of the Witch falls from its third place opening last weekend all the way down to tenth spot this weekend. Season of the Witch earned only $4.5 million in its second frame, and was down 58% compared to last weekend. Relativity Media's $40 million "effort" has now earned a very soft $18 million.

Overall this weekend, the box office continues to lag behind last year in a very big way. A year ago, Avatar was still dominating, and with the addition of The Book of Eli, the weekend gross was very large at $157 million. This year's totals weren't nearly as successful, as the box office tally for the top 12 came in at $115.2 million. Next weekend doesn't look all that hot – the only wide opener is No Strings Attached, another Natalie Portman starrer, this time a rom-com with Ashton Kutcher. Also opening at about 650 venues, is No Way Back, a true tale from director Peter Weir.

Top Weekend Box Office for 1/14/11-1/16/11 (Actuals)
Rank	Film	Distributor	Estimated Gross	Actual Gross	Weekly Change	Running Total
1	The Green Hornet	Columbia Pictures (Sony)	$34,000,000	$33,526,876	New	$40,012,543
2	The Dilemma	Universal	N/A	$17,816,230	New	$20,521,030
3	True Grit	Paramount Pictures	$11,200,000	$11,004,755	- 24.7%	$128,339,354
4	The King's Speech	The Weinstein Company	$9,070,000	$9,186,203	+ 43.2%	$46,795,025
5	Black Swan	Universal	$8,125,000	$8,342,648	+ 2.8%	$75,020,120
6	Little Fockers	Universal Pictures	$7,137,582	$7,194,865	- 46.7%	$135,621,520
7	TRON: Legacy	Walt Disney Pictures	N/A	$5,679,858	-44%	$158,497,550
8	Yogi Bear		$5,345,000	$5,365,547	- 19.2%	$84,197,416
9	The Fighter	Paramount	$5,125,000	$5,101,140	- 27.1%	$67,026,761
10	Season of the Witch	Lionsgate	$4,500,000	$4,606,584	- 56.6%	$18,913,782
11	Tangled	Walt Disney Pictures	$3,949,000	$3,983,009	- 22.1%	$182,666,695
12	Country Strong	Sony/Columbia	N/A	$3,682,375	New	$13,986,383
	Also Opening/Notables
	The Heart Specialist	Freestyle	$539,738	$473,062	New	$581,516
	Yamla Pagla Deewana	Eros	N/A	$504,116	New	$504,116
	Barney's Version	Sony Classics	$71,662	$65,241	New	$114,285
	Ong Bak 3	Magnolia	N/A	$5,648	New	$7,094
	A Somewhat Gentle Man	Strand	N/A	$2,506	New	$3,215
	Plastic Planet	First Run	N/A	$740	New	$889
	Blue Valentine	The Weinstein Company	$1,374,312	$1,386,776	+ 96.9%	$3,162,235
	Another Year	Sony Pictures Classics	$126,546	$111,806	+ 21.8%	$483,095
	Gulliver's Travels	20th Century Fox	$2,075,000	$2,118,591	- 53.8%	$38,590,723
	Somewhere	Focus	$248,010	$251,113	+54%	$1,033,290
	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader	20th Century Fox	$2,325,000	$2,324,393	- 49.5%	$98,863,922
	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I	Warner Bros.	$1,300,000	$1,399,204	-41%	$290,153,345
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Box office data supplied by Exhibitor Relations

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