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As we mentioned earlier, Jessica Alba, husband Cash Warren & their two daughters spent the holidays relaxing in well-secured & luxurious Cabo San Lucas. The couple soaked in the rays as their newborn daughter Haven was seen chilling poolside with the nanny. J. Alba gave birth earlier this summer in August and from the looks of these bikini pics, she’s recovering beautifully!
While you won’t be surprised to learn that Mission: Impossible 4 was the top movie at the box office this weekend (what, you thought it was going to beTin Tin?), you might be a teensy weensy itty bitty bit surprised to learn that overall box office receipts were down for the year: specifically 3.5%, which means that 2011 was the worst year at the box office since 1995. Yup, since the year of Braveheart. Or Pocahontas.
Some are blaming the lackluster movies the big studios decided to produce this year - we’re still tallying all the awful superhero films that were hurled our way this summer; some are blaming technology - you know, because we won’t wander into the cineplex to see Sandra Bullock when we can watch her ex make an ass out of himself on Youtube; and some are blaming the economy - which means we can blame Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – or George W. Bush and/or Barack Obama.
Apart from the final installment of Harry Potter, there were no stand out films this year. Sure, Hugo is brilliant but hasn’t been such a darling of the masses. War Horse seems to be made for a different era and every sequel, be it featuring the bachelors from The Hangover, Sherlock Holmes or a trio of singing Chipmunks, underperformed by a good hundred million. Even the perfect track record of Pixar wasn’t spared with the release of the underwhelming Cars 2. Too many sequels and remakes were offered up to audiences and returned, untouched, and without so much as a ‘no thank you.’ And deservedly so, some would argue, because the movies weren’t so good.
I’ll leave the Monday morning quarterbacking and ticket tallying to others. Here are the final tallies for the final weekend of 2011:
1. Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol - $31.2 million
2. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - $22.1 million
3. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked - $18.2 million
4. War Horse - $16.9 million
5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - $16.3 million
6. We Bought a Zoo - $14.3 million
7. The Adventures of Tintin - $12.0 million
8. New Year’s Eve - $6.7 million
9. The Darkest Hour - $4.3 million
10. The Descendants - $3.6 million
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