The Hobbit wins box office. Les Miserables and Django Unchained neck and neck.

Sometimes It's frightening how accurate the math can be. Before This year, there Were Only a handful of Movies that have opened on a Christmas Day That happened to land on a Saturday over the last decade (Ali and Kate and Leopold in 2001, Alien vs. Predator: Requim, The Great Debaters, and The Waterhorse).

Ali, AVP2, and the Denzel Washington drama The Great Debaters were pretty front loaded ($ 10m / $ 34m and $ 9.5m / $ 26m, and $ 3.5m / $ 13m respectively) while the smaller films (Kate and Leopold and The Waterhorse: Legend of the Deep) Christmas opening days had smaller but longer legs over the six days ($ 2.5m / $ 17m and $ 2.3m / $ 16.7m).

These prior examples I use Because the three major wide releases this weekend pretty much matched up Those patterns to a tee. So when i tell you That Les Miserables opened on Christmas Day to $ 18 million but did "just" $ 28 million for the weekend and "only" $ 66 million for the six-day holiday (a 3.67x weekend multiplier), That Does not Mean anything other than it played like a regular high-profile film That Happened to Have opened on Tuesday the 25th. Django Unchained Or That pulled in $ 64 million to $ 15 million off Tuesday opening Christmas, That Means That It's actually the biggest legs of any would-be blockbuster to open On this specific date Tuesday the 25th (4.2x weekend multiplier).