Two films starring newly-minted Golden Globe winner Jessica Chastain topped Friday’s box office. Zero Dark Thirty, the film that brought Chastain her Best Actress win on Sunday, was expected to run neck-and-neck with Mama, the new PG-13 horror feature, at this weekend’s box office. Instead, with a better-than expected $10 million estimate from 2,647 locations on Friday, Mama should easily claim the MLK weekend title with over $25 million. Zero Dark Thirty, last weekend’s number one film, will take second with around $15 million through Sunday. Chastain’s one-two sweep upstaged the weekend’s R-rated action debuts: Broken City and The Last Stand. Both underwhelmed – though with its estimate of $3 million from 2,620 locations, Broken City at least made it into Friday’s top five. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s The Last Stand was not so lucky. With just $2 million from 2,913 locations, The Last Stand will finish the weekend near the bottom of the top ten. Finally, Silver Linings Playbook expanded into 2,523 locations on Friday, propelling the R-rated Oscar nominee into the top five on its tenth weekend in theatres. Check back tomorrow for full details.
| Title | Friday | Total | |
| 1. | Mama | $10,000,000 | $10 |
| 2. | Zero Dark Thirty | $4,600,000 | $42.9 |
| 3. | Broken City | $3,000,000 | $3 |
| 4. | Silver Linings Playbook | $2,954,000 | $46.9 |
| 5. | Gangster Squad | $2,665,000 | $25.7 |
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Sorry about your luck Arny, lets hope I do a little better with BTTH…
Why would anyone watch a bad movie starring some old republican who destroyed California and cheated on his wife?
100 percent Super agreed let’s not forget that being an immigrant looking for work himself he has talked shit about them in the past
Jessica with black hair = Super hot.