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The Artist Cleans Up At The Oscars

February 27, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

As expected, The Artist was the big winner at the Oscars, picking up Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor among its five awards. As it’s a love letter to Hollywood, it’s not surprising the Academy loved the movie.

Hugo also picked up five awards, although they were all in technical categories such as Visual Effects and Sound Mixing. It’s been suggested that this reflects how if it weren’t for The Artist, Hugo would have swept the board.

Other major awards included Meryl Streep picking up her third Oscar for The Iron Lady, while in the Supporting Actor and Actress Category, Christopher Plummer did the LGBT representation at the Oscars proud, winning for playing an elderly gay man in Beginners, while an emotional Octavia Spencer scored a much deserved  award for The Help. Plummer becomes the oldest ever acting Oscar winner at 82, outdoing Jessica Tandy, who picked up her Best Actress Oscar for Driving Miss Daisy when she was 80.

Woody Allen won another Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Midnight In Paris, while The Descendants picked up the best Adapted Screenplay award.

Take a look below for all the winners in all categories.

84th Annual Academy Awards Winners:

Best Picture
Winner: ‘The Artist’ Thomas Langmann, Producer
‘The Descendants’ Jim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Producers
‘Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close’ Scott Rudin, Producer
‘The Help’ Brunson Green, Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan, Producers
‘Hugo’ Graham King and Martin Scorsese, Producers
‘Midnight in Paris’ Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum, Producers
‘Moneyball’ Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz and Brad Pitt, Producers
‘The Tree of Life’ Sarah Green, Bill Pohlad, Dede Gardner, Grant Hill
‘War Horse’ Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers

Directing
Winner: ‘The Artist’ Michel Hazanavicius
‘The Descendants’ Alexander Payne
‘Hugo’ Martin Scorsese
‘Midnight in Paris’ Woody Allen
‘The Tree of Life’ Terrence Malick

Actor in a Leading Role
Demián Bichir in ‘A Better Life’
George Clooney in ‘The Descendants’
Winner: Jean Dujardin in ‘The Artist’
Gary Oldman in ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’
Brad Pitt in ‘Moneyball’

Actor in a Supporting Role
Kenneth Branagh in ‘My Week with Marilyn’
Jonah Hill in ‘Moneyball’
Nick Nolte in ‘Warrior’
Winner: Christopher Plummer in ‘Beginners’
Max von Sydow in ‘Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close’

Actress in a Leading Role
Glenn Close in ‘Albert Nobbs’
Viola Davis in ‘The Help’
Rooney Mara in ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’
Winner: Meryl Streep in ‘The Iron Lady’
Michelle Williams in ‘My Week with Marilyn’

Actress in a Supporting Role
Bérénice Bejo in ‘The Artist’
Jessica Chastain in ‘The Help’
Melissa McCarthy in ‘Bridesmaids’
Janet McTeer in ‘Albert Nobbs’
Winner: Octavia Spencer in ‘The Help’

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Winner: ‘The Descendants’ Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
‘Hugo’ Screenplay by John Logan
‘The Ides of March’ Screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
‘Moneyball’ Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin Story by Stan Chervin
‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ Screenplay by Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan

Writing (Original Screenplay)
‘The Artist’ Written by Michel Hazanavicius
‘Bridesmaids’ Written by Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig
‘Margin Call’ Written by J.C. Chandor
Winner: ‘Midnight in Paris’ Written by Woody Allen
‘A Separation’ Written by Asghar Farhadi

Animated Feature Film
‘A Cat in Paris’ Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli
‘Chico & Rita’ Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal
‘Kung Fu Panda 2’ Jennifer Yuh Nelson
‘Puss in Boots’ Chris Miller
Winner: ‘Rango’ Gore Verbinski

Art Direction
‘The Artist’ Production Design: Laurence Bennett; Set Decoration: Robert Gould
‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2’ Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan
Winner: ‘Hugo’ Production Design: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
‘Midnight in Paris’ Production Design: Anne Seibel; Set Decoration: Hélène Dubreuil
‘War Horse’ Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Lee Sandales

Cinematography
‘The Artist’ Guillaume Schiffman
‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ Jeff Cronenweth
Winner: ‘Hugo’ Robert Richardson
‘The Tree of Life’ Emmanuel Lubezki
‘War Horse’ Janusz Kaminski

Costume Design
‘Anonymous’ Lisy Christl
Winner: ‘The Artist’ Mark Bridges
‘Hugo’ Sandy Powell
‘Jane Eyre’ Michael O’Connor
‘W.E.’ Arianne Phillips

Documentary (Feature)
‘Hell and Back Again’ Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner
‘If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front’ Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman
‘Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory’ Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
‘Pina’ Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel
Winner: ‘Undefeated’ TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Richard Middlemas

Documentary (Short Subject)
‘The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement’ Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin
‘God Is the Bigger Elvis’ Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson
‘Incident in New Baghdad’ James Spione
Winner: ‘Saving Face’ Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
‘The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom’ Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen

Film Editing
‘The Artist’ Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius
‘The Descendants’ Kevin Tent
Winner: ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
‘Hugo’ Thelma Schoonmaker
‘Moneyball’ Christopher Tellefsen

Foreign Language Film
‘Bullhead’ Belgium
‘Footnote’ Israel
‘In Darkness’ Poland
‘Monsieur Lazhar’ Canada
Winner: ‘A Separation’ Iran

Makeup
‘Albert Nobbs’ Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and Matthew W. Mungle
‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2’ Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng
Winner: ‘The Iron Lady’ Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland

Music (Original Score)
‘The Adventures of Tintin’ John Williams
Winner: ‘The Artist’ Ludovic Bource
‘Hugo’ Howard Shore
‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ Alberto Iglesias
‘War Horse’ John Williams

Music (Original Song)
Winner: ‘Man or Muppet’ from ‘The Muppets’ Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie
‘Real in Rio’ from ‘Rio’ Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown Lyric by Siedah Garrett

Short Film (Animated)
‘Dimanche/Sunday’ Patrick Doyon
Winner: ‘The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore’ William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
‘La Luna’ Enrico Casarosa
‘A Morning Stroll’ Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe
‘Wild Life’ Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby

Short Film (Live Action)
‘Pentecost’ Peter McDonald and Eimear O’Kane
‘Raju’ Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren
Winner: ‘The Shore’ Terry George and Oorlagh George
‘Time Freak’ Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey
‘Tuba Atlantic’ Hallvar Witzø

Sound Editing
‘Drive’ Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis
‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ Ren Klyce
Winner: ‘Hugo’ Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty
‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl
‘War Horse’ Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom

Sound Mixing
‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Bo Persson
Winner: ‘Hugo’ Tom Fleischman and John Midgley
‘Moneyball’ Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco and Ed Novick
‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Peter J. Devlin
‘War Horse’ Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson and Stuart Wilson

Visual Effects
‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2’ Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson
Winner: ‘Hugo’ Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning
‘Real Steel’ Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg
‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett
‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier

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LGBT Characters Get A Few Nods In 2012 Oscar Nominations

January 24, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Today Jennifer Lawrence and AMPAS President Tom Sherak got up extra early to announce the Oscar nominations (it was 5.30am LA time) so that we can pore over them for weeks in the run up to the ceremony on February 26th.

Early reaction has been largely favourable, with the sense that the Academy has done a pretty good job, barring some grumbling over the lack of Drive in any of the categories barring Sound Editing and Michael Fassbender missing out on a Best Actor nom for Shame.

Surprising many, it’s Hugo that has the most nominations with 11, followed by the expected leader, The Artist, with 10.

On the LGBT front, Christopher Plummer has, as expected, picked up a Best Supporting Actor nomination for playing an aging gay man in Beginners. After his Golden Globe win he’s now the favourite in that category.

What was less certain was whether Glenn Close would get a nom for Albert Nobbs, in which she plays a woman living as a man. Thankfully she got a Best Actress nomination, while Janet McTeer got a Best Supporting Actress nod for the same movie. Rooney Mara also got a Best Actress nod for playing bisexual Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

Although the AIDS documentary We Were Here made the longlist for the Best Documentary Oscar, it sadly wasn’t included among the final nominees. Other movies with LGBT themes that were shut out include J. Edgar and Weekend (although no one had expected the latter to be nominated, no matter how much critics love it).

Gay director Tate Taylor missed out on a Best Director nomination, but his film, The Help, picked up a Best Picture nomination, along with three nods for for its female stars in the acting categories. Likewise lesbian Iron Lady helmer Phylidda Lloyd didn’t get a nomination herself, but Meryl Streep is the frontrunner for Best Actress for her performance in the movie.

So you can decide for yourself whether the Academy got it right, here’s the full list of nominees in all categories. Let the bitching about Olivia Colman not being nominated for Tyrannosaur but Jonah Hill getting one for Moneyball commence:

Best Picture
“The Artist” Thomas Langmann, Producer
“The Descendants” Jim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Producers
“Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” Scott Rudin, Producer
“The Help” Brunson Green, Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan, Producers
“Hugo” Graham King and Martin Scorsese, Producers
“Midnight in Paris” Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum, Producers
“Moneyball” Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz and Brad Pitt, Producers
“The Tree of Life” Nominees to be determined
“War Horse” Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers

Directing
“The Artist” Michel Hazanavicius
“The Descendants” Alexander Payne
“Hugo” Martin Scorsese
“Midnight in Paris” Woody Allen
“The Tree of Life” Terrence Malick

Actor in a Leading Role
Demián Bichir in “A Better Life”
George Clooney in “The Descendants”
Jean Dujardin in “The Artist”
Gary Oldman in “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”
Brad Pitt in “Moneyball”

Actor in a Supporting Role
Kenneth Branagh in “My Week with Marilyn”
Jonah Hill in “Moneyball”
Nick Nolte in “Warrior”
Christopher Plummer in “Beginners”
Max von Sydow in “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”

Actress in a Leading Role
Glenn Close in “Albert Nobbs”
Viola Davis in “The Help”
Rooney Mara in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
Meryl Streep in “The Iron Lady”
Michelle Williams in “My Week with Marilyn”

Actress in a Supporting Role
Bérénice Bejo in “The Artist”
Jessica Chastain in “The Help”
Melissa McCarthy in “Bridesmaids”
Janet McTeer in “Albert Nobbs”
Octavia Spencer in “The Help”

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
“The Descendants” Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
“Hugo” Screenplay by John Logan
“The Ides of March” Screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
“Moneyball” Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin Story by Stan Chervin
“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” Screenplay by Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan

Writing (Original Screenplay)
“The Artist” Written by Michel Hazanavicius
“Bridesmaids” Written by Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig
“Margin Call” Written by J.C. Chandor
“Midnight in Paris” Written by Woody Allen
“A Separation” Written by Asghar Farhadi

Animated Feature Film
“A Cat in Paris” Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli
“Chico & Rita” Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal
“Kung Fu Panda 2” Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“Puss in Boots” Chris Miller
“Rango” Gore Verbinski

Art Direction
“The Artist”
Production Design: Laurence Bennett; Set Decoration: Robert Gould
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2”
Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan
“Hugo”
Production Design: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
“Midnight in Paris”
Production Design: Anne Seibel; Set Decoration: Hélène Dubreuil
“War Horse”
Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Lee Sandales

Cinematography
“The Artist” Guillaume Schiffman
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Jeff Cronenweth
“Hugo” Robert Richardson
“The Tree of Life” Emmanuel Lubezki
“War Horse” Janusz Kaminski

Costume Design
“Anonymous” Lisy Christl
“The Artist” Mark Bridges
“Hugo” Sandy Powell
“Jane Eyre” Michael O’Connor
“W.E.” Arianne Phillips

Documentary (Feature)
“Hell and Back Again”
Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner
“If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front”
Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman
“Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory”
Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
“Pina”
Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel
“Undefeated”
TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Richard Middlemas

Documentary (Short Subject)
“The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement”
Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin
“God Is the Bigger Elvis”
Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson
“Incident in New Baghdad”
James Spione
“Saving Face”
Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
“The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom”
Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen

Film Editing
“The Artist” Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius
“The Descendants” Kevin Tent
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
“Hugo” Thelma Schoonmaker
“Moneyball” Christopher Tellefsen

Foreign Language Film
“Bullhead” Belgium
“Footnote” Israel
“In Darkness” Poland
“Monsieur Lazhar” Canada
“A Separation” Iran

Makeup
“Albert Nobbs”
Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and Matthew W. Mungle
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2”
Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng
“The Iron Lady”
Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland

Music (Original Score)
“The Adventures of Tintin” John Williams
“The Artist” Ludovic Bource
“Hugo” Howard Shore
“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” Alberto Iglesias
“War Horse” John Williams

Music (Original Song)
“Man or Muppet” from “The Muppets” Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie
“Real in Rio” from “Rio” Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown Lyric by Siedah Garrett

Short Film (Animated)
“Dimanche/Sunday” Patrick Doyon
“The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
“La Luna” Enrico Casarosa
“A Morning Stroll” Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe
“Wild Life” Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby

Short Film (Live Action)
“Pentecost” Peter McDonald and Eimear O’Kane
“Raju” Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren
“The Shore” Terry George and Oorlagh George
“Time Freak” Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey
“Tuba Atlantic” Hallvar Witzø

Sound Editing
“Drive” Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Ren Klyce
“Hugo” Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon” Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl
“War Horse” Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom

Sound Mixing
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Bo Persson
“Hugo”
Tom Fleischman and John Midgley
“Moneyball”
Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco and Ed Novick
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Peter J. Devlin
“War Horse”
Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson and Stuart Wilson

Visual Effects
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2”
Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson
“Hugo”
Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning
“Real Steel”
Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg
“Rise of the Planet of the Apes”
Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier

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Sherlock Holmes 2 Tops The US Box Office

December 19, 2011 By Movie Muser Leave a Comment

If Hollywood was hoping for a little pre-Christmas cheer, it didn’t get much over the weekend, after disappointing debuts for two movies there’d been high hopes for. Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows topped the chart with $40 million, more than $20 million down on the first movie’s take during Christmas 2009. It’s even lower than Tron: Legacy, which opened to weak reviews this weekend last year.

As A Game Of Shadows had good reviews and strong word of mouth, it’s not certain what happened to the audience (Warner Bros had been expecting a $50 million+ opening), but it does suggest it’s not just a dearth of decent films that’s causing people to stay away from the multiplex.

Doing even worse was Alvin & the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, which took $23.5 million, less than half what it’s predescessor made.

The one bright spot at the US box office was Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, which took $13 million in limited released on only 425 IMAX and large screens cinemas. While it suggests the film will do well when it expands onto normal screens later this week, some may worry that the IMAX numbers were heavily skewed by the inclusion of a six-minute prologue to The Dark Knight Rises, and that without that (it won’t be included in normal cinemas), it’s still difficult to know just how well the new Mission: Impossible movie will do.

Hollywood is likely to be worrying a lot at the moment. Studios have spent more than $600 million on movies being released in December, and so far every weekend has been significantly down on the comparable weekend from a year ago. They’re going to be hoping for a stellar period between Christmas and New Year to make up lost ground or it’s going to be a very bad end to a very up and down year.

Rank Title Weekend Gross
(millions)
Total Gross to
date (millions)
1 Sherlock Holmes: A
Game Of Shadows
$40.0 $40.0
2 Alvin & the
Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
$23.5 $23.5
3 Mission: Impossible –
Ghost Protocol
$13.0 $13.6
4 New Year’s Eve $7.4 $24.8
5 The Sitter $4.4 $17.7
6 The Twilight Saga:
Breaking Dawn Part 1
$4.3 $266.4
7 Young Adult $3.6 $4.0
8 Hugo $3.6 $39.0
9 Arthur Christmas $3.6 $38.5
10 The Muppets $3.4 $70.9

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New Year’s Eve Tops The US Box Office

December 12, 2011 By Movie Muser Leave a Comment

The idea that lightning can strike in the same place twice took a hit over the weekend, with New Year’s Eve, the star-studded follow-up to Valentine’s Day, topping the US box ofice but with a very tepid $13.7 million. With a cast that includes Michelle Pfeiffer, Zac Efron, Ashton Kutcher, Katherine Heigl, Lea Michele, Robert De Niro, Josh Duhamel, Halle Berry, Abigail Breslin, Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges, Hilary Swank and Seth Meyer, Warner Bros had been expecting it to make over $20 million, especially since it’s predecessor opened to $72 million 18 months ago.

Quite why Warner didn’t actually open the movie at New Year is still a bit of a mystery, as you’d have expected it to do better then.

New Year’s Eve wasn’t the only movie that was met with a giant ‘meh’ by US audiences, as the new Jonah Hill film The Sitter took $10 million to place second. It was about in line with not very high expectations.

While early December isn’t usually a great time at the box office, last weekend wasn’t just weak, it was the lowest grossing weekend overall since September 5th-7th 2008, showing just how weak things are at the moment – indeed many in Hollywood are wondering what’s happened to the audience. While cinemas had reason to cheer in the summer, the rest of the year has been pretty bad for them, and they’re now desperately hoping for a huge Christmas movie that’ll help save what could otherwise be a pretty dismal 12 months at the box office.

Rank Title Weekend Gross (millions) Total Gross to date (millions)
1 New Year’s Eve $13.7 $13.7
2 The Sitter $10.0 $10.0
3 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 $7.9 $259.5
4 The Muppets $7.0 $65.8
5 Arthur Christmas $6.6 $33.4
6 Hugo $6.1 $33.4
7 The Descendants $4.8 $23.6
8 Happy Feet Two $3.7 $56.8
9 Jack And Jill $3.2 $68.6
10 Immortals $2.4 $79.8

General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser

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Breaking Dawn Tops US Box Office Again

December 5, 2011 By Movie Muser Leave a Comment

It was quite an unusual week at the US box office, as no new movies at all made it into the top 10, with older film merely shifting around a little. Things remained exactly the same at the top though, with Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 in the number 1 slot, despite dropping 60% from last weekend to $16.9 million, while The Muppets stayed at number 2 with an $11.2 million weekend gross.

The only notable new entry was outside the top 10. Many eyes were on Shame and whether the highly acclaimed movie could find box office success, despite getting an adults-only NC-17 rating, which many view as commercial suicide in the US (most companies would prefer to release a movie with no rating that having an NC-17 rating). While it only opened on 10 screens, it took $361,000, giving it by far the highest per-screen average on the chart. All eyes will now be on whether it can continue to do well as it expands onto more screens in the next few weeks.

Take a look below for the US box office top 10 for the weekend of December 2nd-4th.

Rank Title Weekend Gross (millions) Total Gross to date (millions)
1 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 $16.9 $247/3
2 The Muppets $11.2 $56.1
3 Hugo $7.6 $25.1
4 Arthur Christmas $7.3 $25.3
5 Happy Feet Two $6.0 $51.7
6 Jack And Jill $5.5 $64.3
7 The Descendants $5.2 $18.0
8 Immortals $4.3 $75.5
9 Tower Heist $4.1 $70.8
10 Puss In Boots $3.0 $139.5

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