PRECIOUS box office
While Disney’s A Christmas Carol won the weekend with a lackluster $31 million, it was Precious that outperformed all expectations. The film about an young woman from the ghetto who is abused by her mother and impregnated by her father took in $1.8 million at the weekend box office. Variety notes that the $100,000 per screen average is a record for any film that opened in less than 50 theaters. That’s good news for the Oprah and Tyler Perry endorsed indie. Maybe this grim film will turn out to be a bigger hit than anyone (other than Lionsgate) thought it would be.
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