Daniel Radcliffe Scores A Win With First Post-Potter Flick ‘The Woman in Black’
Daniel Radcliffe’s The Woman in Black took second at the box office this week with a take of $21 million, good enough to appease many critics who wondered how the movie star would fair with his first post-Potter film.
Filmed for a reported $13 million if numbers hold up that means Radcliffe’s first outing generated a profit during it’s first three days of wide release.
The movie managed to pull off decent ratings on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic while Daniel’s star power pulled in audiences.
Woman in Black trailed only Chronicle which was shot for just $12 million and took in $22 million. Chronicle received great ratings from critics and fans which helped it along especially with younger audiences and men.
Continuing her slump was Drew Barrymore who’s Big Miracle which cost $40 million to produce brough in just $8.5 million. While not her best outing the inspiring whale story still performed better then her last two movies Going the Distance and Everybody’s Fine.
In good news for film makers Hollywood box-office take is already up by 33 percent over the same Super Bowl weekend period last year.
Here’s the full weekend top 10 box office take list:
- Chronicle, $22 million
- The Woman in Black, $21 million
- The Grey, $9.5 million
- Big Miracle, $8.5 million
- Underworld Awakening, $5.6 million
- One for the Money, $5.3 million
- Red Tails, $5 million
- The Descendants, $4.6 million
- Man on a Ledge, $4.5 million
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, $3.9 million
It will be interesting to see which movies show an increase next weekend when not hindered by more than 100 million American’s staying at home on a Sunday to watch Super Bowl XLVI.
Did you head out to see Daniel Radcliffe in The Woman in Black? If you did go see the movie what did you think of it?
