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We are currently in the calm before the storm, waiting to see what manner of box office havoc Avatar](Avatar (2009) - Movie | Moviefone) and Sherlock Holmes](Sherlock Holmes (2009) - Movie | Moviefone) will wreak starting December 18th. This weekend was conceded to the leggy The Blind Side](http://www.cinematical.com/2009/11/20/review-the-blind-side/), which took over the top spot from New Moon](http://www.cinematical.com/2009/11/19/the-twilight-saga-new-moon-review/)to bring its total gross to around $130 million. New Moon took another big hit, but it hardly matters; the movie will struggle to get to $300 million, but has a fighting chance at it. The movie that’s petered out a little domestically is 2012 – it’s at $148 million and won’t get much farther, though its worldwide numbers ($600 million and counting) more than make up for it.
The weekend’s new arrivals did not make much of a splash. Nearly $10 million for Brothers](http://www.cinematical.com/2009/12/04/review-brothers/) sounds okay to me – the movie is a painful, dead-serious drama that would have been buried deep in the arthouses were it not for its star power. $6.6 million for Screen Gems’ Armored](http://www.cinematical.com/2009/12/04/armored-review/) is neither here nor there; the marketing was awfully generic (though I’m curious about the movie since Nimrod Antal’s *Vacancy * was terrific). $4 million for *Everybody’s Fine *on 2000 screens is a disappointment; I think Family Stone-type numbers ($12 million) were achievable. It seems like Miramax has been totally neutered.
Oscar front-runner *Up in the Air *got a promising start on 15 screens, landing at 13. And the dreadful-looking Transylmania](http://www.cinematical.com/2009/12/04/review-transylmania/) scored the third worst wide release of all time with a $272 average on 1000 screens.
The full chart after the jump.
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