Box office – The Grey tops after week 1

Box office – The Grey tops after week 1

The action-thriller film "The Grey" starring Liam Neeson, climbed to the top of the box office with $ 20 million dollars, the specialist website Box Office Mojo.

Directed by Joe Carnahan, this story of survival in cold Alaskan oil drillers faced attack by a pack of hungry wolves fell short of "Taken", another film featuring Neeson, released the same weekend in 2009, which pocketed to $ 25 million.

The cast of the film, whose story is reminiscent of the works as "Alive" (1993) and "Frozen" (2010), consists of Neeson, Dermot Mulroney, Frank Grillo and Dallas Roberts.

In the second place appears Kate Beckinsale in "Underworld: Awakening," with $ 12.5 million. In the movie, embossed leather vampire Selene (Beckinsale) wakes up in today’s society, far from the medieval era in which she spend her early adventures, and discovers
that men are hunting vampires and lycans to the brink of extinction.

Performed better than anticipated comedy "One For the Money" with Katherine Heigl, stood in third place with $ 11.8 million. Heigl gives life to a woman recently divorced and unemployed, getting a job as a bounty hunter to follow the track of a local policeman
(Jason O’Mara) with whom she had an affair.

The fourth position is "Red Tails" with $ 10.4 million. This story, based on true events, revolves around a group of African American pilots who are left on the ground on racial grounds during World War II.

The fifth is place is held by "Man on a Ledge" with $ 8.2 million. The film tells the story of an ex-cop jailed for a crime he did not commit (Sam Worthington). After escaping from prison where he is serving sentence, he seeks clearance for his name, threatening
to jump from the ledge of the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan.

In addition, the weekend saw the good box office performed by films nominated for Oscars.

This is the case of "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" with $ 7.1 million, and "The Descendants", with 6.6 million. Meanwhile "The Artist" increased the number of copies and entered $ 3.3 million.

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