Sunday, February 26, 2012

'Valor' victorious at weekend B.O.

'Act of Valor'While each one of the weekend's opening foursome symbolized limited financial risk, there is certainly an assorted bag well over and underachievers in the domestic box office. Relativity Media's "Act of Valor" required command from the former camping, debuting for an believed $24.7 million through Sunday."Valor" arrived line with many bizzers' anticipation -- though still a grade-A bow for any film that, all in, cost Relativity between $25 million and $$ 30 million.Lionsgate's latest Tyler Perry offering, "Good Deeds," adopted one of the new records by having an believed $16 million. That's around the low-side on most Perry openings however the helmer maintained a workable cost of under $15 million.The weekend's remaining wide openers, Universal's "Wanderlust" and Summit's "Gone," battled to construct a fanbase, calculating $6.six million and $5 million, correspondingly.Neither studio ought to be too surprised, however. Pre-weekend monitoring had recommended that both photos would range within the mid-to-high single numbers.Nevertheless, overall box office still displayed considerable elasticity. Weekend totals arrived roughly 23% in front of the same frame this year, throughout that the top two photos made just north of $13 million. Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com

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