The Super Bowl usually takes a bite out of moviegoing, but yikes: Despite one successful counterprogramming effort â€" “Warm Bodies,†aimed at teenage girls, opened to solid results â€" total ticket sales for the weekend fell 24 percent compared with last year, which was also a very slow box-office period. The biggest casualty was Sylvester Stallone, whose unfortunately titled “Bullet to the Head†(Warner Brothers) took in an anemic $4.5 million, for sixth place, according to Hollywood.com, which complies box-office data.
“Warm Bodies†(Lionsgate), a zombie movie that cost about $30 million to make, was No. 1 with in an estimated $20 million in ticket sales. The rest of the top five movies were all holdovers. “Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters†(Paramount) generated about $9.2 million in sales, for a two-week total of $34.5 million. “Silver Linings Playbook†(the Weinstein Company) was third, with about $8.1 million in tickets soldto lift its 12-week total to $80.4 million. Fourth place went to “Mama†(Universal), which took in an estimated $6.7 million, for a three-week total of $58.3 million. And “Zero Dark Thirty†(Sony) was fifth, selling an additional $5.3 million in tickets, for a seven-week total of $77.8 million.
