Weekend Box Office December 24-26

Courtesy of Box Office Mojo:

1.  Little Fockers - $34 million

2.  True Grit - $25.6 million

3.  Tron Legacy - $20.1 million

4.  The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader - $10.8 million

5.  Yogi Bear - $8.8 million

6.  The Fighter - $8.5 million

7.  Gulliver's Travels - $7.2 million

8.  Black Swan - $6.6 million

9.  Tangled - $6.5 million

10.  The Tourist - $5.7 million

Another Christmas weekend, another Focker movie.  With $48.3 million since opening on Wednesday, the third entry in the Ben Stiller/Robert DeNiro dysfunctional family saga did well enough, but fell far short of Meet the Fockers' $70.1 million haul over the same weekend in 2004.  Blame the third movie curse, the six-year gap since the last film, the holiday or the big snowstorm currently socking the Northeast...but the Focker craze seems to be bottoming out.

Better news at the box office was the success of True Grit, which had a fantastic weekend with $25.6 million.  This is the biggest opening weekend for the Coen brothers since Burn After Reading in 2008, and the best opening weekend ever for a Western.  This bodes even better for the film's Oscar chances this year.

Last week's champ, Tron Legacy, tumbled 54% to land in third place with $20.1 million.  It's still a long way off from its reported $170 million budget, but with the kids off from school this week, it could still bring some decent numbers for a little while longer.  Same goes with the latest Narnia film, which held up surprisingly well with $10.8 million, beating out Yogi Bear's $8.8 million, and Gulliver's Travels, with was DOA with just $7.2 million.

Black Swan brought its domestic total to $29 million, making it director Darren Aronofsky's highest-grossing film.  Another Oscar hopeful, The King's Speech, expanded to 700 theaters this weekend and earned an excellent $4.6 million.

With no major releases plan until the New Year, expect the Fockers and family films (well, except for maybe Gulliver's Travels) to stay busy for the rest of the week.