Weekend Box Office: November 11 - 13

Courtesy of Box Office Mojo:

1.  Immortals - $32.2 million

2.  Jack & Jill - $25 million

3.  Puss in Boots - $24.7 million

4.  Tower Heist - $12.7 million

5.  J. Edgar - $11.2 million

6.  A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas - $5.9 million

7.  In Time - $4 million

8.  Paranormal Activity 3 - $3.6 million

9.  Footloose - $2.7 million

10.  Real Steel - $1.8 million

Well, Immortals certainly did better than expected, opening in first place this weekend with $32 million.  That's nowhere near the wow-this-looks-familiar openings of 300 or the Clash of the Titans remake, it's far better than the estimated $23 million or so it was expected to take this weekend.  The better news is that it easily overtook Adam Sandler's ridiculous-looking Jack and Jill, which found an audience anyway with $25 million.  That just barely beats out Puss in Boots, which in its third weekend crossed the $100 million mark with $24.7 million. 

Speaking over movies crossing the $100 million threshold, Paranormal Activity 3 did just that this weekend.  It's now outgrossed Parnormal Activity 2's $84 million from last year, and it's catching up on the $107 million the original film made in 2009. 

It wasn't a great week for Brett Ratner (or Eddie Murphy, for that matter), but the news was somewhat better, although not great, for Tower Heist, which dropped 47% to earn another $12.7 million.  As far as people will likely still be going to the Oscars this year, Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar did so-so this weekend with just $11.2. 

Next weekend brings the beginning of the end as The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 opens in theaters.  For anyone more interested in dancing penguins (or watching a test pattern, which would be preferable to Twilight), Happy Feet 2 also arrives to steal some animated thunder from Puss in Boots next weekend.  George Clooney's other Oscar hopeful, The Descendants, also opens in theaters next weekend, so it looks like there's something for everyone.